Climate Food and Agriculture
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![Tractors and burning piles of burning agricultural waste block a highway during a farmers protest in Spain]()
![Tractors and burning piles of burning agricultural waste block a highway during a farmers protest in Spain]()
What Europe’s egg-hurling farmers can teach us about climate progress
EU officials had big plans to slash emissions from farming. Then the protests started.
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![Driftwood logs sit along the shoreline of Upper Klamath Lake]()
![Driftwood logs sit along the shoreline of Upper Klamath Lake]()
As the Klamath River dries, tribal nations and farmers come to rare agreement
“What’s at stake is our very livelihood, our culture, our identities, our way of life."
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![Volunteers harvest fruit from native plants in a roundabout]()
![Volunteers harvest fruit from native plants in a roundabout]()
Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.
In cities like Tucson, Arizona, neighbors are planting trees to provide shade — and food.
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![Trawl fishermen empty a net full of fish onto the deck of a boat]()
![Trawl fishermen empty a net full of fish onto the deck of a boat]()
Bottom trawling shreds the seafloor. It may also be a huge source of carbon emissions.
Dragging nets along the ocean bed wrecks marine life, but researchers can’t agree on how bad it is for the climate.
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![Flamingoes rest in a pond near in a wind farm]()
![Flamingoes rest in a pond near in a wind farm]()
How to build renewables without threatening biodiversity? Carefully.
Researchers say coupling wind and solar farms with actual farms is a good place to start.
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![Collage of climate imagery and snippets of a calendar]()
![Collage of climate imagery and snippets of a calendar]()
24 Climate Predictions for 2024
Plastics, taxes, and expensive desserts: Grist reporters weigh in on the climate trends that will shape the year ahead.
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![A group of people work on building a road alongside a forest.]()
![A group of people work on building a road alongside a forest.]()
‘Green roads’ are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods
As the developing world witnesses a boom in road building, a movement to retrofit existing roads is gathering steam. Using embankments, channels, and dikes, so-called “green roads” help control floods, harvest excess water for use in irrigation, and slash maintenance costs.
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How can California solve its water woes? By flooding its best farmland.
Restored floodplains in the state’s agricultural heartland are fighting both flooding and drought. But their fate rests with California’s powerful farmers.
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![An activist at COP28 calls for climate action on food systems.]()
![An activist at COP28 calls for climate action on food systems.]()
The world now has a roadmap for food and climate. But it’s missing a few things.
For one, the U.N.'s proposal barely mentions fossil fuels.
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![Pallets loaded with oyster shells are held by a winch over a river.]()
![Pallets loaded with oyster shells are held by a winch over a river.]()
How much carbon can oysters store? Scientists are trying to find out.
Oysters stabilize shorelines, trap carbon-rich sediment, and help marshes grow.
