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Cows graze on pastureland in Caernarvon Township, Pa. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Returning Grazing Land to Native Forests Would Yield Big Climate Benefits

By Georgina Gustin

Herzuza Dongkin’s 3-acre oil palm plantation is harvested by family and community members near Kampung Chenderong Kelubi in the Malaysian state of Perak.

Changes May Ease Burdens of European Deforestation Regulation on Small Palm Farms, but Not the Confusion

Story and photos by James Whitlow Delano

Hudson Johnson passes hay to Kristen Kiker, as she prepares to tow it across floodwaters with a paddleboard to feed horses and goats on a nearby farm in Black Mountain, N.C., on Thursday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Hurricane Helene Prompts Questions About Raising Animals in Increasingly Vulnerable Places

By Georgina Gustin

A tractor and air seeder plants garbanzo beans in the Palouse region near Pullman, Washington. A new report released during a Climate Week panel points out that it takes 100 times more land to produce the same amount of protein from beef compared to protein-rich plants like legumes. Credit: Rick Dalton/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

At Climate Week NYC, Advocates for Plant-Based Diets Make Their Case for the Climate

By Georgina Gustin

Residents watch as the Kickapoo River jumps its banks and floods the small town of Viola, Wisconsin, in August 2018. Credit: Tim Hundt/Vernon Reporter

The Fate of Thousands of US Dams Hangs in the Balance, Leaving Rural Communities With Hard Choices

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A combine harvests corn into a grain wagon on a farm in Iowa. Credit: Curt Maas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

North America’s Biggest Food Companies Are Struggling to Lower Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Georgina Gustin

The Environmental Working Group lawsuit accuses Tyson of deceiving consumers by failing to provide a realistic plan to reduce its emissions or even measure them. Credit: Richard Hamilton Smith /Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Tyson Foods Sued Over Emissions Reduction Promises

By Georgina Gustin

Cattle graze in an area near recent deforestation in the state of Acre, Brazil on July 14, 2022. Credit: Rafael Vilela/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Ranchers Are Using Toxic Herbicides to Clear Forests in Brazil

By Georgina Gustin

Sprinklers water a lettuce field in Holtville, California on Feb. 9, 2023. The agriculture sector uses about 80 percent of the state’s consumed water. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images

The Key to Fix California’s Inadequate Water Storage? Put Water Underground, Scientists Say

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

As drivers enter Purcellville, Virginia, they are reminded via road signs that farms in the area are under drought watch on Sept. 7, 2023. Credit: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Combination of Heat and Drought Walloped Virginia Vegetable Farmers

By Sean Sublette

Michael Katrutsa walks through rows of tomatoes on his 20-acre produce farm in Camden, Tennessee. His crops also include sweet corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, peppers, cucumbers, okra and more. Credit: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout

As Climate Threats to Agriculture Mount, Could the Mississippi River Delta Be the Next California?

By Cassandra Stephenson, Illan Ireland and Phillip Powell, Tennessee Lookout

A firefighters extinguishes flames near State Road 172 as the Park Fire burns on Aug. 7 in Mill Creek, California. Credit: Ethan Swope/Getty Images

In the Park Fire, an Indigenous Cultural Fire Practitioner Sees Beyond Destruction

By Sarah Hopkins

UC Berkeley students participate in a class at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Emeryville, California. Credit: Thor Swift/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

New Grant Will Further Research to Identify and Generate Biomass in California’s North San Joaquin Valley

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

Farmworkers pick strawberries on a field in Oxnard, Calif. Growers applied more than 60 million pounds of the fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene on crops such as strawberries to kill nematodes and other soil-dwelling organisms in 2018, the most recent year data is available. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

A farmer walks through his field of dried-up crops in the Butha-Buthe District of Lesotho on Aug. 7. Credit: Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images

As Global Hunger Levels Remain Stubbornly High, Advocates Call for More Money to Change the Way the World Produces Food

By Georgina Gustin

Sustainable Aviation Fuels Are Struggling to Take Off Amid Greenwashing Claims

By Kiley Price

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz attends the Farmfest agricultural forum on Aug. 2, 2023 in Morgan, Minnesota. Credit: Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images

VP Candidate Tim Walz Has Deep Connections to Agriculture and Conservation

By Georgina Gustin

An aerial view of the Desert Shores community on the Salton Sea in California. Credit: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Feds Contradict Scientific Research, Say the Salton Sea’s Exposed Lakebed Is Not a Significant Source of Pollution for Disadvantaged Communities

By Sarah Hopkins

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