Global food waste helps to drive climate change due to the methane released by decomposing organic matter. With emissions from food loss and waste now nearly five times the emissions from the aviation ...

NEW YORK - Instead of finishing your leftovers, you let them go bad and buy takeout. It’s a familiar routine for many — and indicative of habits that contribute to a global food waste problem that a ...

Food waste has become one of humanity's most pressing challenges. While more than seven hundred million people worldwide struggle with hunger, we simultaneously throw away over a billion tonnes of ...

Imagine, if you will, a disaster movie monster wreaking havoc on the planet. Its thirst drains Lake Geneva of its water three ...

Made from upcycled food waste, a new edible antimicrobial system is extending shelf life and cutting post-harvest spoilage ...

An estimated 316 million pounds of food will be wasted in the U.S. on Thanksgiving — half a billion dollars’ worth of groceries thrown away in a single day. It takes an area the size of China to grow ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Danielle Nierenberg is a researcher and writer on global food systems. Over the years, the conversations we’ve been having about ...

We waste a lot of food. According to the U.N., over a billion tons of it are wasted each year globally, most of it from households. Not only does wasting all this food cost the average American family ...

New research has compared whether food waste is reduced more by consumers who are driven by sustainability or those driven by nutrition and health. With somewhat unexpected findings, the study ...

In a country that feeds over a billion people, India’s food waste is a stark paradox. Even as hunger and rising food prices ...

The United States generates more food waste than all but two countries. To address this, the federal government set a goal to cut food waste in half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, to about 164 ...