Climate Change

Ayana Bio partners with Wooree Green Science for plant cell-derived saffron

29-Jan-2024 By Stephen Daniells

Boston-based plant cell tech company Ayana Bio has signed a seven-figure joint development agreement with South Korea’s Wooree Green Science to develop plant cell-derived saffron and other important bioactive ingredients.

Planet FWD debuts platform to cut environmental impact

23-Oct-2023 By Danielle Masterson

Companies now have access to better understanding and reducing corporate emissions–from office operations through the supply chain.

NutraCast: How Artemis handles its botanical supply chain amid unpredictable weather

22-Sep-2023 By Danielle Masterson

With record-breaking temperatures, the weather is making berry crops less predictable. As a result of this climate change, berry growers are now rethinking their strategies. Randy Kreienbrink, vice president of sales at Artemis International, broke down...

NutraCast: Incorporating weather forecasting into business models

24-Mar-2023 By Danielle Masterson

Heavy rain, droughts, record-breaking early blooms and even a recent blizzard warning in California..all alarming indicators that Mother Nature is off kilter. Climate Change is a slow-moving crisis that’s catching up quickly, and for some companies, long-term...

Climate change is cause for concern, but hasn’t threatened marine ingredient supplies so far, expert says

25-Aug-2022 By Hank Schultz

Climate change is something that concerns all ocean scientists, but it hasn’t negatively affected many major fisheries thus far, including those most important to the omega-3s industry, an expert says.

Frank Jaksch joins Ayana Bio as CEO: ‘I’m really excited about being back in the exploration mode’

24-Aug-2022 By Stephen Daniells

Plant cell technology company and Ginkgo Bioworks spin off Ayana Bio has appointed ChromaDex founder and former CEO Frank Jaksch as its new CEO.

Horphag confirms inventory availability despite French forest fires

17-Aug-2022 By Stephen Daniells

Forest fires sweeping the southwest of France are destroying vast acreage of Maritime Pine, the source of Horphag’s famous Pycnogenol pine bark extract. The company’s CEO tells us that raw material supply or production quality will not be impacted.

Botanical yields fall as climate change affects harvests

17-Aug-2022 By Stephen Daniells

Extreme weather events from heat waves and droughts to ‘hundred-year storms’ happening every two years, the impact of climate change is obvious. And few industries are witnessing the impact as much as botanical supply chain.

Climate issues compounding botanical supply chain issues

24-Mar-2022 By Stephen Daniells

While COVID-related supply chain disruption has wreaked havoc on global supply chains, climate issues are worsening the problems for the botanical supply from around the world.

Ancient Nutrition partners with Rodale Institute for regenerative ag transition

14-Feb-2022 By Stephen Daniells

Supplement brand Ancient Nutrition has announced a scientific research partnership with regenerative organic agriculture pioneers Rodale Institute on its regenerative agricultural efforts.

More extreme weather, continued shipping delays raise risks in botanical ingredient supply chains

09-Dec-2021 By Hank Schultz

The current supply disruptions are likely to continue until at least the third quarter of 2022, industry professionals have told NutraIngredients-USA. And continuing questions of climate change and the political instability that might cause will put...

Four companies that are driving sustainability

17-Aug-2021 By Danielle Masterson

The alarming UN climate change report was put out over a week ago, but UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ “code red for humanity” message still haunts many as humans continue to cause much of the extreme weather by emitting greenhouse gases.

From the editor's desk

Centinela: Remember the name

01-Jun-2020 By Hank Schultz

People who would like to put a damper on apocalyptic projections of the effects of climate change and habitat destruction like to focus on the fact that we’ll get through this, that life will find a way. There’s no doubting this (the world is not about...

96% of the globe may have insufficient access by 2100

Could climate change cause DHA omega-3 from oceans to plummet?

04-Mar-2020 By Stephen Daniells

Warming oceans may deliver a crushing blow to the production of DHA omega-3 by algae, which would ripple up the food chain and slash the global availability of this critical nutrient by 2100, says a scientific paper. But could rapid advances in plant...

MegaFood advocacy director says time for climate change action is now

07-Jan-2020 By Hank Schultz

The ongoing fires in Australia have heightened concern about the climate change crisis. One company in the supplement business says it is committed to do what it can to reverse the trend.

ABC article paints grim picture of climate change effects on plants and how it's changed in past decade

04-Dec-2019 By Hank Schultz

The American Botanical Council has brought the climate crisis question full circle, with a new article that resists some of the findings from an article on the subject the organization first published a decade ago.

Immediate action needed to protect medicinal plants from climate change, paper argues

18-Nov-2019 By Hank Schultz

Urgent action is needed to assess and mitigate the risks climate change poses to medicinal plants, according to a paper published on Friday.

Comet Bio teams up with farmers to develop ingredients with use crop leftovers

06-Nov-2019 By Danielle Masterson

The manufacturer is founded on upcycling crop leftovers to develop healthy, sustainable, and natural ingredients for use in supplements, foods, and beverages.

Sabinsa moves to spread out turmeric risk in face of monsoon variability

06-Nov-2019 By Hank Schultz

Sabinsa Corporation has moved to further disperse its turmeric supply in the face of environmental challenges in India even as it launches a new ingredient to make more use of the raw material it already harvests.

Climate change on agenda at SupplySide West

03-Oct-2019 By Hank Schultz

Climate change will be taking center stage at the upcoming SupplySide Trade show, and NutraIngredients-USA will be there to report about it.

The erosion of predictability: Climate change and the botanical supply chain

22-Mar-2018 By Stephen Daniells

From changes to the times when plants are flowering, fruiting, and harvested, to disruptions to nature’s synchronization between plants and their insect pollinators, climate change is exerting significant pressure on the botanical supply chain, and companies...

World Food Day

Spotlight on climate change’s effect on food security, safety

16-Oct-2008 By Jess Halliday

The message blasting out from World Food Day events is ‘adapt now, or the consequences will be grave’. While the world’s poorest will bear the brunt, food safety could be affected everywhere.

Weekly Comment

The weather excuse

22-Oct-2007

With all the threats facing food and beverage production -- from
contamination in the food chain, to rising input prices --
there appears to be one menace that towers above the rest, namely
'The Weather'.