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A shellfish company gets into the weeds

by Sarah Sax / High Country News 01.26.2022, 4:44pm Environment Share Link Copied! Save The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community shows how eelgrass and aquaculture can coexist in Puget Sound. The light...

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A just transition for farmworkers

As agricultural laborers continue to bear the brunt of climate change, activists in Washington chart a new path for climate justice. Pictured above: Megaphones at Tierra y Libertad, a 65-acre farm...

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Corn ethanol was supposed to help the climate. Instead, its production may...

Environmental advocates have long warned that incentivizing ethanol production could be a net loss for the planet. A new study suggests that those fears may be well-founded. For 15 years, the federal...

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Why climate change will lead to more contaminated produce—and more food...

As experts debate the best solutions, would a new proposed FDA safety rule do enough to decrease the risks? Worldwide, incidents of salmonella and E. Coli on sprouts, melons, and especially leafy...

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Catching crabs in a suffocating sea

by Julia Rosen 03.03.2022, 11:48am Environment Share Link Copied! Save When oceans are starved of oxygen, it can be devastating to crabs and the fishers who rely on them. New tools could help crabbers...

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There are millions of acres of ‘failing’ rangelands, data shows

54 million acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management aren’t meeting the agency’s own land-health standards. Data released today reveals that 54 million acres of land managed by...

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Debt, racism, and fear of displacement are driving an overlooked public...

Research suggests racism should be treated as a matter of public health. But the unique stressors faced by Black farmers remain poorly understood. At 43 and 45 years old, husband and wife farmers...

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Arizona’s future water shock

Smaller cities. Soaring water prices. Scorched desert towns. Arizona confronts a highly uncertain future. This piece from Circle of Blue is part of a collaboration managed by the Institute for...

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The campaign for “bird-friendly beef”

The National Audubon Society’s new certification program measures eco-benefits using a single, simple metric: birds. It’s a quietly radical approach that’s upending conventional wisdom about both...

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More regenerative farming may be a climate solution. But another climate...

Farmers are giving up much-needed cropland to solar companies, but can the two work in tandem? 02 02 Regenerative agriculture needs a reckoning 03 03 When a Big Ag conglomerate buys an iconic niche...

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Is California giving its methane digesters too much credit?

California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air. This story was published in partnership with Grist. Every year, California dairy...

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