Climate Food and Agriculture
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![President Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins]()
![President Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins]()
Trump radically remade the US food system in just 100 days
The people who grow and sell America's food no longer trust the USDA. We made a timeline to show you what happened.
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![aerial view of an irrigation canal running through an almond orchard in California's Central Valley]()
![aerial view of an irrigation canal running through an almond orchard in California's Central Valley]()
How California’s farmers can recharge the aquifers they’ve drained
Agriculture requires a lot of water. In the drought-stricken Central Valley, researchers have found a win-win for growers.
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Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy
In California's water-stressed Central Valley, farmers are fallowing land and installing solar, providing financial stability and saving water.
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![Elementary school children in line at a cafeteria being served healthy lunches]()
![Elementary school children in line at a cafeteria being served healthy lunches]()
Trump’s latest USDA cuts undermine his plan to ‘Make America Healthy Again’
The abrupt cancellation of a beloved farm-to-school grant program threatens food access, school gardens, and small farms nationwide.
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![close-up of a student holding a carton of milk]()
![close-up of a student holding a carton of milk]()
Whole, skim, or soy? The congressional battle over milk in school lunches.
Offering kids nondairy milk could be a climate solution. No one's talking about it that way.
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How baby chickens became America’s hottest commodity
Soaring egg prices have people flocking to buy chickens, creating a nationwide shortage of chicks.
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![Farmers plant rice seedlings by hand in the terraced paddy fields]()
![Farmers plant rice seedlings by hand in the terraced paddy fields]()
The ‘king of poisons’ is building up in rice
Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden.
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New York City is making people compost — or pay up
New Yorkers can now get fined for not separating their food scraps. Some critics say that's not the right approach.
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![Farm equipment in front of a raised bed of dirt with solar panels in the background.]()
![Farm equipment in front of a raised bed of dirt with solar panels in the background.]()
The USDA is unfreezing clean energy money — but ‘inviting’ grant recipients to remove DEI and climate language
The agency is finally moving on getting gridlocked money to farmers. But at what cost?
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![Two boats on water divided by buoys.]()
![Two boats on water divided by buoys.]()
A federal judge just hit the brakes on Trump’s plan to fast-track industrial fish farming in the Gulf
Advocates for marine health say aquaculture "has no place in U.S. ocean waters."
