Climate crisis
Here's what local climate action looks like in small-town USA
Canary's culture correspondent has a whale of a time connecting with fellow climate-conscious citizens in his New England hamlet.
By Mike Munsell .
Food and farms
Solar
This farmer was skeptical about solar — until he began grazing sheep
Illinois farmer Trent Gerlach had misgivings about solar panels taking up cropland, but he saw a chance to try agrivoltaics, a practice catching on around the US.
By Kari Lydersen .
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Food and farms
The investment boom in ‘renewable natural gas’ is sparking debate
Oil and gas giants are spending billions to develop RNG projects from trash, food and manure. But experts say there’s a limited future for the waste-derived fuel.By Maria Gallucci .
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Food and farms
Cattle are a huge climate threat. Smarter ranching can help
Ranchers in Brazil are testing new and improved techniques that can lower the climate impact of beef production by using less land and curbing cattle's burps and farts.By Michael Grunwald .
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Fun stuff
Canary Live Boston: Watch the event on Thurs., April 6 at 6:00 PM ET
We're broadcasting our event live from Greentown Labs in Somerville, Mass. this week.By Nicholas Rinaldi .
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Podcast
The greenhouse gas you don't hear enough about
Nitrous oxide has a global warming potential 273 times higher than carbon dioxide, and it lasts in the atmosphere for a century. So what can we do about it?PlayBy Shayle Kann . 48 min .
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Food and farms
There's a push underway to help more US farms save big with clean energy
Advocates say revamping the 20-year-old federal Rural Energy for America Program could give cash-crunched small farms some much-needed breathing room.By Kathiann Kowalski .
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Podcast
This episode is trash
How the food we waste heats up the planet, and how we can fix it.PlayBy Shayle Kann . 33 min .
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Food and farms
Afraid of high-tech food? Get over it
Too many Americans are squeamish about cultivated meat, alt-protein processed foods and GMOs, but we'll need to get used to them to avert a climate catastrophe.By Michael Grunwald .
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Air travel
The smelly, greasy truth about how sustainable aviation fuel is made
Join our reporter as she tags along with a truck driver dumpster-diving for used cooking oil — all in the name of curbing aircraft emissions.By Maria Gallucci .
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Food and farms
Tomatoes and solar panels could go well together
Agrivoltaics — agriculture paired with solar arrays — could help the U.S. tomato industry in increasingly hot and dry regions, research suggests.By Kari Lydersen .
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