Your Food Choices Can Have a Big Climate Impact, So Be Picky, New Study Says

When it comes to the climate impacts of our diet, it pays to be particular. One bowl of rice can have six times the climate impact of another. A cup of coffee may have a carbon footprint 15 times bigger than another. Those are some of the findings in a sweeping study that exmained the complexities of the world’s food system to determine its environmental impact.