As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment.

If we all swapped beef burgers and bacon sandwiches for vegetarian alternatives most of the week, we could cut greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector by more than half.

Before the first harvest robot drives through the greenhouses, millions of cucumbers will still be manually picked. However, robots are already working in packing and sorting. Beltech is one of the companies focused on the development of a harvest robot, but the company has already delivered a packing robot as well.

Agriculture is already one of the biggest contributors to global warming.

Gabe Brown, a city boy from Bismark, North Dakota bought the farm of his in-laws in 1991. The farm grew small grains, mostly spring wheat, oats, and barley, using the conventional farming practices Brown’s predecessors had followed since 1956 – tilling (plowing) the land to seed and applying synthetic fertilizers and herbicides annually.

Good! It’s a crucial area for us to focus on, and it’s often neglected.

Replenishing and protecting the world’s soil carbon stores could help to offset up to 5.5bn tonnes of greenhouse gases every year, a study finds.

In all the discussions about climate change, one thing is often overlooked – the upper atmosphere of Earth is actually cooling while the lower atmosphere grows warmer, and this strange paradox is a clear fingerprint of greenhouse gases at work.

Humanity faces a herculean task to reverse climate change and protect the natural world that supports us.

Five years ago, 197 governments promised to limit the impacts of climate change.

All of us know that running a greenhouse is not an easy job.

Better Cotton has announced the launch of its new climate change mitigation target as part of a new strategy designed to deliver substantial environmental, social and economic impact across the cotton industry by 2030.

The Netherlands is one of the smallest, most densely populated, and most urbanized countries on Earth. And yet, despite its dearth of arable land, it is the planet’s second-largest exporter of agricultural produce by value – behind only the US.

There is a big shortfall between the amount of food we produce today and the amount needed to feed everyone in 2050.

In the fall of 2006, the United Nations released the first-ever large-scale investigation of animal agriculture’s effect on the climate.