Green Queen

4 Mins Read A judge in Québec has authorised a class-action lawsuit against coffee chains over excessive plant-based milk levies, with Starbucks admitting it charged six times more than the cost.

Starbucks, Tim Hortons and Foodtastic have been dealt a blow in a legal action against their non-dairy milk surcharge in Canada.

A judge in the Superior Court of Québe...

5 Mins Read Product-scanning app Yuka and watchdog group Consumer Reports have petitioned the US FDA to better regulate food additives and scrap the self-affirmed GRAS pathway.

As the war against food additives heats up, two consumer advocacy platforms have joined calls to end a rule that enables companies to self-determine their ingredients as safe in the US.

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8 Mins Read Most climate change estimates of AI focus on emissions from training large models, but they don’t account for the impact of running them, according to a UN report.

Barely any industry is growing at the breakneck pace of artificial intelligence (AI), and the technology leading the fourth industrial revolution has a colossal climate question looming over it.

4 Mins Read A new analysis finds that research linked to the livestock industry is 16 times more likely to report the benefits of meat consumption than independent studies, which the authors say is “concerning”.

Meat products have been linked to a number of chronic conditions, including

4 Mins Read The Malaysian government is studying cultivated meat and other alternative proteins to secure its food supply in the face of climate change and El Niño.

With a “super” El Niño set to raise temperatures to extreme levels, countries need safeguards in place to protect their populations.

Climate experts fear that the current wave of the phenomenon, whi...