Climate Food and Agriculture
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![Thousands of brown and white cows stand close to each other under the sun.]()
![Thousands of brown and white cows stand close to each other under the sun.]()
There’s a major gap in the new methane pledge: Agriculture
The Global Methane Pledge gives farmers and ranchers a ‘free pass,’ environmental groups say.
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![A farmer harvest cayenne peppers.]()
![A farmer harvest cayenne peppers.]()
Why many food experts don’t want a new international body for food science
An “IPCC for food” is more controversial than it sounds.
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![A forest in Montana]()
![A forest in Montana]()
Montana tribe finalizes historic $1.9 billion water rights settlement
It is the largest amount ever awarded in an Indigenous water rights case.
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![Collage: silhouette of Illinois, an oak savanna, and a Black farmer covered by an oil pipeline]()
![Collage: silhouette of Illinois, an oak savanna, and a Black farmer covered by an oil pipeline]()
Does rural Illinois really need a new gas pipeline?
In this historic Black farming community, some want renewables instead.
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![Cattle seen from above]()
![Cattle seen from above]()
The other greenhouse gas: UN report sets the record straight on methane
Every part of the problem needs fixing.
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![A person reaches for a green coffee cup with brown lid. the cup is labeled ReCUP]()
![A person reaches for a green coffee cup with brown lid. the cup is labeled ReCUP]()
This German startup offers a simpler way to recycle your coffee cup
Here's the tea on reusable cups.
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![Smoke from a wildfire rising above a field of grape vines]()
![Smoke from a wildfire rising above a field of grape vines]()
As wildfires worsen, more California farms are deemed too risky to insure
The skyrocketing cost of fire insurance foreshadows a larger confrontation over so-called managed retreat.
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![A farmer carries rice seedlings to be planted in a paddy field at a village in Nagaon district of India's northeastern state of Assam, on July 3, 2021.]()
![A farmer carries rice seedlings to be planted in a paddy field at a village in Nagaon district of India's northeastern state of Assam, on July 3, 2021.]()
Scientists have long warned climate change threatens our food security. Now they’re finding solutions.
We've barely scratched the surface on the potential of plants.
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![students wetland restoration]()
10 jobs that will help shape a zero-emissions future
An economy based on healing the climate could spawn new livelihoods across Cascadia.
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Will history repeat in a dry Klamath Basin this summer?
This year’s drought is worse than in 2001, when political and environmental tensions exploded into the national spotlight.
