AGRICULTURE

With California’s new composting law in effect, state residents are now required to compost organic food waste. How does a college student living in a university apartment compost their organic waste? Learn how a USC college junior begins her composting...

From farm to kitchen to inevitable garbage can, uneaten food is the most common waste material tossed into landfills by American households. Over a third of all food produced in the United States goes uneaten and discarded into the same...

Plant-based meat products have exploded in prominence, but many experts doubt they are as healthy and environmentally sustainable as others claim.

The average American spends $1200 on prescription drugs monthly- more than any other nation- and prices continue to rise. What if the elixirs to health issues were found in mushrooms you could grow in your backyard?

Pesticides are not new to the agriculture industry, but our understanding of their health-impacts are. Learn more about our history with pesticides, and the most common ways these pesticides contaminate our water and the world around us. After, find out...

The Amazon rainforest and its inhabitants have suffered greatly from deforestation, but there is still time to shape the future for the better.

Silicon Valley may now be able to provide an ethical alternative to blood diamonds; a product they’re calling “conflict-free” diamonds.

Household food insufficiency increased during the pandemic, but food insecurity has been a longstanding problem in the U.S. Let's unpack why food insecurity existed prior to the pandemic and is here to stay in one of the richest countries in...

Food insecurity is the limited availability of nutritionally adequate or safe foods and affects millions of Americans.

Does Markle’s avocado toast cause “human rights abuses, drought and murder”?