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Bees and butterflies get a boost from the feds
A new White House program doesn't have a lot of muscle behind it, but at least it acknowledges the problem of declining pollinator populations.
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Obama to create largest marine protected area ever, because bigger is better
The U.S. is proposing to double the area of protected ocean with the expansion of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.
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Beekeepers are breeding a race of superbees at the Seattle airport
As more hives fall to colony collapse disorder, these pioneers are on a mission to create pollinators that are adapted to survive in the Pacific Northwest.
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Climate change threatens America’s ‘king corn’
Heat waves and water shortages could devastate U.S. farmlands devoted to corn crop, a new report warns.
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Fish are great at fighting climate change. Too bad we’re eating them all.
Fish are superheroes when it comes to sequestering carbon and slowing global warming -- but overfishing and bycatch are killing these deep-sea ecosystems.
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Here’s a new way to keep cattle burps from toasting the planet
Scientists have developed a powder that can be added to cattle feed to reduce their methane emissions by more than half.
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Organic farming is great, but it’s not Jesus
Organic agriculture can indeed do good things for the soil that reduce greenhouse gases. But overselling the advantages can backfire.
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Chef Dan Barber on the farm-to-table movement’s next steps
The Blue Hill chef talks his new book, why tomatoes are the Hummers of the veggie world, and how soil is constantly talking to us.
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Michelle Obama’s food fight with GOP: Schools just want to have funds
Politicians fighting over funding for school lunches are lurching toward loosening rules when they should really get serious about boosting funding.
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Oregon county bans GMO crops
Organic farmers, worried about contamination, win a local campaign, even though the state has its own new rules barring locales from regulating GMOs.
