Cropped
A fortnightly global digest of news about nature, food, land-use and climate change.
Sent out every other Wednesday, Cropped is a digest of all the key developments from the intersection between food systems, land use, nature and climate change from the past fortnight.
Every day, our team trawls the media looking for the latest developments providing context behind the headlines. Cropped also highlights some extra reading we’ve spotted about food, land use and nature, plus includes all of Carbon Brief’s latest content on this topic.
Read previous editions of Cropped below.
Cropped 3 June 2026: Highway through the Amazon | El Niño impact | State of CO2 removal
Cropped 20 May 2026: Deforestation roadmap | Melanesian Ocean Summit | Returning pet parrots to the wild
Cropped 6 May 2026: Forest loss falls | Deforestation regulations | Saving ‘India’s Galapagos’
Cropped 22 April 2026: Global food ‘catastrophe’ | BECCS emissions | UK solar farm controversy
Cropped 8 April 2026: Iran war drives up food prices | Two nature talks conclude | Return of UK’s tallest bird
Cropped 25 March 2026: Seabed mining talks stall | ‘Blueprint’ for land use | India feels Iran war impacts
Cropped 11 March 2026: Iran water worries | Seabed-mining treaty progress | Women farmers and climate change
Cropped 25 February 2026: Food inflation strikes | El Niño looms | Biodiversity talks stagnate
Cropped 11 February 2026: Aftershocks of US withdrawals | Biodiversity and business risks | Deep-sea mining tensions
Cropped 28 January 2026: Ocean biodiversity boost; Nature and national security; Mangrove defence
Cropped 14 January 2026: Wildfires scorch three continents; EU trade; Food and nature in 2026