It's just not possible to feed meat to the 7 billion (and growing) people on planet Earth.

Kermit pops into ‘Saturday Night Live’ to discuss the school lunch standards.

Sensational headlines and varying reports about a North Carolina school lunch incident would have us think so.

Food news and items of interest from around the Web for your weekend reading.

The USDA is expected to announce that schools will be able to request beef patties with or without the controversial filler.

Exotic beetles are killing America's ash trees, a popular source of wood for baseball bats. And as these verdant invaders spread into the Northeast, their grow

America does not grow enough fruits and vegetables to satisfy USDA recommendations for all citizens. This infograhic makes the argument easy to understand.

The winner of the Apps for Healthy Kids contest sponsored by Let’s Move allows kids build a healthy meal from ingredients online, and they can send those meal

The agency bows to pressure from the livestock industry to backtrack on urging people to reduce their consumption of meat.

In the second Healthy Lunchtime Challenge kids enter their best original lunch recipes for a chance to attend the Kids’ State Dinner.

A new report released by EWG details just how widespread the use of antibiotics in animals is and the disturbing problems it's causing for humans.

A new report ranks meat and poultry based on outbreaks of foodborne illness.

The Non-GMO Project received USDA approval to label meat from animals fed a diet that didn’t contain genetically modified ingredients as Non-GMO.

A pilot project in Ithaca, N.Y. will rent space in a community freezer for people to store bulk meat purchases.

What good can an additional serving of fruit or vegetables a day do?

USDA and EPA aim to cut food waste in half. But how will they get that food to the hungry?

New dietary guidelines put a limit on added sugar, and changed their tune on dietary cholesterol. Good news for egg lovers.

The government no longer requires Country of Origin Labeling on meat, and the USDA has rescinded a grass-fed beef label.

On the heels of the government's dietary guidelines, Environmental Working Group releases its own version, free from food industry interference.

U.S. Cattlemen's Association has filed a petition to USDA arguing that lab-grown and plant-based meat startups shouldn't be able to call their products meat.

The melt-off from the world's ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight years of the past decade would have been enough to cover the United States in about 1

As the Arctic warms, meltwater lakes on the Greenland ice sheet are draining to sea more frequently — potentially lubricating the slide of the ice sheet into

On Aug. 8, the Greenland ice sheet shattered a seasonal record, with more cumulative melting since record-keeping began more than three decades ago, new researc

This summer the North Carolina Senate passed a bill banning researchers from reporting predicted increases in the rate of sea level rise. But the ocean, unbound

Scientists say the consequences of sea-level rise could be 'horrible.'

Pine Island Glacier holds back part of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose thinning ice is contributing to sea level rise.

The world's best beach resorts may disappear despite efforts to protect them against sea level rise

Sharp reductions in short-lived airborne pollutants could significantly slow sea level rise before 2100

Could the plight of one Kiribati family foreshadow a future inundated with climate-change castaways?

Protecting private property by replenishing storm-damaged beaches may be an exercise in futility

A new study shows that 20 percent of UNESCO World Heritage Sites are at risk, bringing to light the cultural implications of climate change.

This winter, the Arctic ice cap expanded to a total of 5.76 million square miles — one of the lowest areas on record since 1979.

If a small chunk of ice currently plugging the edge of an ice sheet in Antarctica were to melt, it could release massive amounts of ice into the ocean.

Antarctica's melting glaciers launched so many icebergs into the ocean 14,600 years ago that sea level rose 6.5 feet in just 100 years.

As if rising sea levels and more intense weather weren't bad enough. The newest negative effect of climate change? The rising dead.

Arctic sea ice — the ice that freezes and floats on Arctic waters — is thinning at a steadier and faster rate than researchers previously thought.

Eko Atlantic will be the modern face of Nigeria, for better or for worse.

From N.H. to Nova Scotia, Ancient forests emerge only during rare periods of extreme low tide.

Longer days are yet another profound consequence of global warming.

These are just a sample of the things we could lose if temperatures rise 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 200 years.

Climate Chronograph is a memorial that sinks as sea levels rise.

Increased sea ice drift forces polar bears to expend more energy walking on a fast-moving 'treadmill' of sea ice.

Geologists say they have found a range of volcanoes beneath the ice of Antarctica that rival those of east Africa and North America.

While rising sea levels ultimately influence the entire planet, they pose the greatest threat to the islands sitting at sea level.

A small island in Louisiana where peppers are grown for Tabasco sauce is losing land to rising sea levels.

Antarctica ice loss was only contributing 0.2 millimeters per year to sea level rise, but that number has jumped to 0.6 millimeters since 2012.

A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows how many coastal cities are vulnerable to chronic flooding — and how many will be underwater.

We know sea levels will rise, and by just looking at the Southeast region, it's easier to see how sea level rise will affect wildlife and culture.

Stone Age villages on the Orkney Islands are older than Stonehenge, but archaeologists fear that they won't be around for much longer.

Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge is rich with wildlife and history — and it's under siege from the waters that surround it. And it's only to get worse.