Climate Food and Agriculture
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Popcorn, climate change, and crazy weather: Watch this neat science explanation
Climate scientist uses a microwave to explain extreme weather and global warming.
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Do industrial agricultural methods actually yield more food per acre than organic ones?
To grow enough food for everyone, we're going to have to borrow the best ideas from all sides of the agricultural debate.
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California: Stop medicating animals! Animal ag industry: Cool
California's tight new restrictions on antibiotic use for farm animals aren't upsetting farmers the way you'd have expected a few years ago.
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Too many apples? Here’s what to do with them (Hint: It’s not pie)
This fall season, fall in love with savory apple flatbread.
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Check out the finalists of this biomimicry invention contest
In this competition based on biomimicry, new ideas for improving the food system draw inspiration from earthworms, ants, and mangrove trees.
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This tractor runs on BS — but it’s the real, eco-friendly deal
Meet the world’s first methane-fueled tractor.
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Good news: Global health is actually improving. Huzzah, civilization!
The latest data shows we've made impressive strides on human life expectancy around the world.
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Ranchers with ties to the biofuel industry attack Brazilian tribe members
The Guarani people -- the largest indigenous group in Brazil -- are all too familiar with the destructive side of sugarcane ethanol.
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Pumpkin beer brings summer’s end ahead of schedule. Thanks, climate change
An Oregon heatwave gave us ripe pumpkins in mid-August.
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A class action lawsuit against Chipotle says the chain is lying to diners about GMOs
The lawsuit against Chipotle is so crazy it just might work. But probably not.
