Climate

Chellie Pingree visiting a farm during a Women in Agriculture event

A Comprehensive New Federal Roadmap for Climate Action on Farms

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02.26.20

hands scooping piles of lentils and other pulse crops

Plant-Based Diets and Regenerative Ag Have Sparked a Pea and Lentil Renaissance

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02.18.20

Cattle in an Oklahoma feedlot. (USDA photo by Alice Welch)

Is Trump’s USDA Ready to Address Climate Change?

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02.14.20

Climate Change Will Expand Agriculture’s Reach, Solving Some Problems and Creating New Ones

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02.12.20

cover crop rye grass

Two States are Leading a Cover Crop Revival

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02.11.20

Three pigs in a pig pen

Can an Industrial-Scale Meat Company Be Carbon Neutral?

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01.28.20

Sarah Ross and fresh grown produce. Photo by Bill Durrance.

Social Roots Seed Company Wants to ‘Reseed the Lowcountry’

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01.23.20

Lani Estill's sheep grazing at Bare Ranch. (Photo by Paige Green for NRCS)

In the Rush to Solve Climate Change with Lab-Based Foods, Don’t Write off Farming

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01.09.20

inspecing pawpaw fruit on the tree

Climate Change Could Make Pawpaws a Valuable Crop for Northern Farmers

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01.09.20

Kelly Placke of Star Bright Farms in Cuba City, Wisconsin.

On-Farm Solar Grows as Farmers See Economic Rewards—and Risks

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01.08.20

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Our Best Climate Coverage of 2019

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12.24.19

Aerial view of deforestation to make land for farming in Brazil

Does a Loophole in Organic Standards Encourage Deforestation?

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12.16.19

Tanasia Swift (center), the Community Reefs Regional Manager at the Billion Oyster Project takes oysters from the Paerdegat Basin in Canarsie, Brooklyn to be monitored by students who were invited to learn about the waterway and the role oysters have in it.

Regenerating New York Harbor, One Billion Oysters at a Time

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12.13.19

farmer harvesting cranberries

Climate Change Is Making the Future of Cranberry Growing Uncertain

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11.28.19

aerial view of center pivot irrigation in New Mexico

High Plains Farmers Race to Save the Ogallala Aquifer

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11.18.19

Cory Booker in silhouette. Photo CC-licensed by Sean Davis

Will 2020 Mark the Rise of a Vegan Voting Bloc?

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11.14.19

Japanese Beef cattle. Photo by japanexterna.se

As Beef Comes Under Fire for Climate Impacts, the Industry Fights Back

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11.08.19

Eric Jackson in Cherry Hill. (Photo by Jesse James DeConto)

Baltimore is at the Vanguard of a National Black Vegan Movement

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11.05.19