These countries plan to throw a spanner in CoP26 works, warn BBC
A comment from India cited “tremendous challenges” to say that coal will remain the main source of energy in the coming decades
Lateral Thoughts: Who moved my samosa?
Indians need to eat better food, rich in fruits and vegetables and high in proteins
Proper diet for children should include eggs to provide good quality proteins
Veena Shatrugna has campaigned vigorously against brahmanical influence on the ‘balanced diet’. She explains the politics of …
0.85 million viruses in birds and mammals can infect people: IPBES paper
Land use change is prime trigger for COVID-19 pandemic and responsible for 30 per cent of new diseases since 1960, it adds
Eating right, for the environment: WWF’s diet chart to help curb climate change, biodiversity loss
Ahead of World Food Day, WWF outlines sustainable diet plan that's healthy for humans & environment alike
International Horseshoe Crab Day: Species under grave threat in Odisha
Hundreds of the crabs have been killed in Odisha each year to supply their meat and shells to Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and other states
UN Environment Assembly: Livestock 'fart' is back in focus
An advance note of UNEP’s executive director lists meat consumption as an unmanageable threat to global warming
How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses
The food most associated with biodiversity loss also tends to also be connected to unhealthy diets across the globe
Meaty tales of vegetarian India
Indians are eating more meat and enjoying it. Higher incomes, global food chains and a vast population of young people indifferent to religious …
Lateral Thoughts: A recipe best avoided
Dependence on food import is not the solution for preventing biodiversity loss or decreasing greenhouse gas emissions
Parliament panel deliberates plea to ban meat exports
Petition to Parliament panel draws attention to severe cattle depletion in the country affecting agricultural economy; public comments invited
Health ministry sets timeframe for keeping animals treated with antibiotics out of food chain
Antibiotics used for therapeutic purposes in animals to carry details of withdrawal period
ICAR gives top award to scientist without checking patent claims
ICAR has asked for Rs 245 crore to promote intellectual property rights but is not doing due diligence on patent claims
Winged wonders: We should not resent bats, because we need them
The pandemic has magnified fear of bats, but their conservation is crucial to prevent such events from arising again
Banning bushmeat could make it harder to stop future pandemics
Bushmeat is popular. Consumers believe that eating wild animals is normal, respectful of traditions, medicinal and even healthy
Pangolin scale seizures jumped 10 times between 2014 and 2018: UN report
Pangolins have, recently, been vilified because of reports that linked them to the emergence of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes …
Mock meat unlikely solution for Indians
Shagun speaks with food critics and nutrition experts to understand whether Indians need mock meat and other plant-based alternatives or if the …
We looked at 700 plant-based foods to see how healthy they really are. Here’s what we found
A nutritional audit 700 plant-based foods in Australia found many products had high in salt or saturated fat content
Meat ban: When politics invades your dinner table
Mutton traders of Mumbai have challenged the four-day ban that started on Thursday
Stop consumption, trade of wild animals to prevent monkeypox spillover: Nigeria agriculture minister
Nigeria saw 21 monkeypox cases since the beginning of 2022
Over the next decade, demand for cereals to grow only in low-income regions
Per capita meat consumption will grow most strongly in the developed world
GWP100 or GWP*: Meat, dairy lobby pushing for new methane metric. How this will enable greenwashing
New method takes current methane emissions as baseline to present minor reductions as negative emissions or cooling
Why South Korea is banning the sale of dog meat
Dog meat is fourth-most consumed meat in South Korea after pork, beef, chicken. But practice of eating dogs has been in sharp decline
Scientists make meat with animal cells
This meat will be is nutritionally equivalent to conventional animal meat
Trouble with vegetarian fascists
Their arguments have no meat