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Wyoming Ranchers Hoping Solar Can Lower Costs Say Utilities and the State Stand in Their Way

Lower electricity bills could help two Cokeville cattlemen compete and pass their businesses on to their kids, they say, but lawmakers won’t let ranch-scale solar projects feed power to the grid.

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

Can Pollution From Industrial Animal Agriculture Be Controlled?

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Beef cattle graze near a machine that releases a seaweed supplement and measures methane emissions on a ranch in Dillon, Mont. Credit: Paulo de Méo Filho/UC Davis

Seaweed Could Reduce Methane Emissions from Grazing Cattle, New Study Shows

By Miranda Lipton

Turning Kazakhstan Into a Beef-Producing Machine, the American Way

Story and photos by Georgina Gustin

Ranchers Are Using Toxic Herbicides to Clear Forests in Brazil

By Georgina Gustin

Montana Is a Frontier for Deep Carbon Storage, and the Controversies Surrounding the Potential Climate Solution

By Najifa Farhat

As the Colorado River Declines, Some Upstream Look to Use it Before They Lose it

By Wyatt Myskow

Climate-Smart Cowboys Hope Regenerative Cattle Ranching Can Heal the Land and Sequester Carbon

By Emma Peterson

Fires smolder in recently burned areas near the Taimá Ecological Reservation and the Paraguai river. The lack of rains in 2020 deepened a drought that allowed wildfires and burns intentionally set to clear land for farms and ranches to explode over an unprecedented amount of land in Brazil's Pantanal wetland that year. Credit: Pablo Albarenga

In Brazil, the World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Has Been Overwhelmed With Unprecedented Fires and Clouds of Propaganda

By Jill Langlois

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