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 10 September 2025: Flooded ‘food baskets’; Brazil eyes forest finance; Resilient rice
Cropped 27 August 2025: ‘Frustrating’ Amazon summit; Workplace heat hazards; Record European wildfires
Cropped 13 August 2025: Fossil-fuelled bird decline; ‘Deadly’ wildfires; Empty nature fund
Cropped 30 July 2025: ‘Unprecedented’ ocean heatwaves; ‘Uneven’ hunger progress; Brazil’s ‘devastation bill’
Cropped 16 July 2025: EU deforestation law pushback; Agri emissions; US lobster disease
Cropped 2 July 2025: US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém
Cropped 18 June 2025: High Seas Treaty ratifications; Ocean warming woes; Brazilian deforestation ‘surges’
Cropped 4 June 2025: ‘Tricks’ and ‘cover-ups’; Wild weather; Former UN nature negotiator interviewed
Cropped 7 May 2025: Ocean alarm; Tariff deforestation risk; West Africa’s fisheries
Cropped 23 April 2025: Beef vs the Amazon; BRICS vs tariffs; Ag alphabet