Climate Food and Agriculture
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Spices-of-the-month delivery service offers flavor without the clutter
Good cooking requires good spices -- but they don't last forever, and those jars just take up space. There's a better way, and it's on Kickstarter.
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Thousands of Minneapolis bees killed by pesticides
The bees buzzed around like they were drunk. Lab tests show they were poisoned by household pesticides.
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In the insecticide wars, GMOs have so far been a force for good
Plants engineered to produce their own bug-killing toxins really have helped farmers cut the use of nastier chemical insecticides.
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Abandoned Russian farmland soaks up 50 million tons of carbon every year
Farmers abandoned 1 million acres of farmland after the USSR collapsed, creating what might be the world's biggest human-made carbon sink.
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Florida citrus growers binge on pesticides, endangering bees
Florida farmers are dousing their groves with chemicals in a desperate bid to save them from citrus greening disease. But the approach is killing the state's bees.
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Hey McDonald’s, maybe don’t make your product literally look like excrement
Is this truly the MOST appetizing that McDonald's food can look?
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Data farm: MacArthur genius looks for food solutions from space
David Lobell's technique: Rise above the debate, collect and connect datasets, and try to figure out which sustainable farming techniques actually work.
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Global food waste explained (with five tomatoes)
Each year, the world produces about 1,471 pounds of edible food for every person on the planet. We only eat about half of that. What happens to the rest? This video breaks it down.
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Super foodie Alice Waters launches anti-fracking fight
The slow food movement champ circulated a petition Wednesday that calls for a moratorium on the practice, saying it threatens water and farms.
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Cow farts still stink up the climate — but relief is possible
Livestock rearing contributes 14.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions -- more than half of that from methane-spewing cattle. Also: We can change this.
