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October 16th is World Food Day and this year’s theme is “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too,” and highlights the impact of a changing environment on agriculture and food security. According the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

By Marilyn Siderwicz | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering One of MIT’s strengths is bringing together business, technology, government, and academic leaders, at the Institute’s Professional Education Short Programs. This spring, a new...

Non-Aligned Movement Summit re-asserts its relevance in a turbulent world The 17th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held in Venezuela in mid-September 2016 was an occasion to reflect on the movement’s history and to reaffirm its relevance in a world...

By Tom Frantz Around 3% of California’s greenhouse gas emissions come from dairy cows. Most of these emissions are from industrial sized milk factories found in the San Joaquin Valley. The emissions are from the cows themselves in the form of belches...

By Dr. Mercola Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are a major environmental polluter, destroying both soil and waterways. Making matters worse, a large portion of the food produced by American CAFOs is not even sold in the U.S. It’s exported...