Climate Food
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A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’
The inside story of how AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.
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Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life
As waters warm, Alaska Native families confront a world without the fish that fed them for generations.
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Community fridges don’t just fight hunger. They’re also a climate solution.
In cities across the U.S., hundreds of refrigerators stocked with free food are reducing waste — and methane emissions.
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‘Nothing’s predictable’: Extreme weather is ruining farmers’ crops, and their finances
Natural disasters hit farmers with a $22 billion bill last year. Only half of that was covered by insurance.
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Cooking oil has a deforestation problem. A startup says it has a solution.
Palm and soy are taking over the world's cropland. Enter Zero Acre Farms.
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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?
As federal agencies prepare to deregulate transgenic chestnuts, Indigenous nations are asserting their rights to access and care for them.
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What would happen if the world cut meat and milk consumption in half?
Agricultural emissions would fall by almost a third. But getting there wouldn't be easy.
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Beef guzzlers: 12% of Americans eat half of the country’s cow meat
Changing the habits of this small group could go a long way toward cutting the country's planet-warming emissions.
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In Portland, Oregon, extreme heat is making food trucks feel like ovens
"The sun is beating down on this metal box.”
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Climate change is coming for your olive oil, too
Heatflation has doubled the price of olive oil over the past year.