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 12 March 2025: Trump and timber; Food fights; Peru’s peatlands
Cropped 26 February 2025: COP16 biodiversity talks resume; Farmers sue Trump; Mapping extreme weather’s ag impacts
Cropped 12 February 2025: Trump chaos; COP16 leadership in question; How global trade harms forest species
Cropped 29 January 2025: Trump takes office; UK nature ‘falling short’; Egg prices soar
Cropped 15 January 2025: LA up in flames; Illegal rewilding in Scotland; COP30 dredging cancelled
Cropped 18 December 2024: No UN deal for drought; Brazil beef investigations; New IPBES reports
Cropped 4 December 2024: Climate talks omit nature; Land COP underway; ‘Frankenchickens’
Cropped 20 November 2024: Food at COP29; ‘Big ag’ in Baku; Brazil’s new climate pledge
Cropped 6 November 2024: COP16 concludes; Recognition for Indigenous peoples; Spain’s farms hit by ‘deadly floods’
Cropped 30 October 2024: The state of play at COP16