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A vision for more sustainable farmlands

Central California can’t continue to farm at its current industrial scale. As land is fallowed, what could take its place? From above, California’s San Joaquin Valley spills out of the Sierra Nevada...

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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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For some families, gardening starts with SNAP benefits

Using food stamps to grow produce could prove useful if more people—and retailers—knew about it. This story first appeared on Crosscut, an independent, nonprofit news site reporting in-depth stories...

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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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At peak of its wealth and influence, Arizona’s desert civilization confronts...

The state’s powerful will to grow is challenged by extreme heat, deep drought, and serious water-related stress. CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – Tales of personal anguish are the typical start of serious...

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Unsafe yield: Severe drought, dead wells, political division are pushing...

From the ongoing Tapped Out series on power and water justice in the rural West. The Biggest Dry: Arizona, second of three reports. Read the first report here. This piece from Circle of Blue is part...

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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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Your car is killing coho salmon

Pacific Northwest rains wash the toxic chemical that weatherizes your car tires into the watershed—a death sentence for salmon. The Nisqually Tribe and researchers are trying to find a solution....

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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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