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Feeding Cows Seaweed Reduces Their Methane Emissions, but California Farms Are a Long Way From Scaling Up the Practice

While the state sees promise in the technique, feed additives take considerable energy to produce and have their own environmental issues.

By Grace van Deelen

Livestock outside of Bakersfield in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Rancher Jaim Teixeira surveys the landscape at the edge of his property, near Trairão in the Brazilian state of Pará. Teixeira lit the forest on fire to clear it so he can graze his cattle, though burning primary rainforest in the Amazon is illegal. Credit: Larry Price

The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault

By Georgina Gustin

USDA Census (Part II): Destroying the Land, Destroying the Planet

By Max Ajl

Beef: What’s Not for Dinner in a Sustainable World

By Max Ajl

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