Food & Agriculture

Politicians Are Considering Paying Farmers to Store Carbon. But Some Environmental and Agriculture Groups Say It’s Greenwashing

In a letter to Congress, the groups ask lawmakers to vote against a proposal that would offer farms credits for conserving carbon or reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.

By Georgina Gustin

California Dairy Farmers are Saving Money—and Cutting Methane Emissions—By Feeding Cows Leftovers

By Stacy Kim

Big Meat and Dairy Companies Have Spent Millions Lobbying Against Climate Action, a New Study Finds

By Georgina Gustin

Ice-fighting Bacteria Could Help California Crops Survive Frost

By Liza Gross

Big Banks Make a Dangerous Bet on the World’s Growing Demand for Food

By Georgina Gustin

Video: In California, the Northfork Mono Tribe Brings ‘Good Fire’ to Overgrown Woodlands

Video By Adam Sings in the Timber; Text By Michael Kodas

Warming Trends: A Facebook Plan to Debunk Climate Myths, ‘Meltdown’ and a Sad Yeti

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warmer California Winters May Fuel Grapevine-Killing Pierce’s Disease

By Liza Gross

In California, a Warming Climate Will Help a Voracious Pest—and Hurt the State’s Almonds, Walnuts and Pistachios

By Liza Gross

As Warming Oceans Bring Tough Times to California Crab Fishers, Scientists Say Diversifying is Key to Survival

By Liza Gross

The Radical Case for Growing Huge Swaths of Bamboo in North America

By Audrey Gray

Harnessing Rice Fields to Resurrect California’s Endangered Salmon

By Liza Gross

Biden Climate Plan Looks For Buy-in From Farmers Who Are Often Skeptical About Global Warming

By Georgina Gustin

As the Livestock Industry Touts Manure-to-Energy Projects, Environmentalists Cry ‘Greenwashing’

By Georgina Gustin

California Farmers Work to Create a Climate Change Buffer for Migratory Water Birds

By Liza Gross

Cows Get Hot, Too: A New Way to Cool Dairy Cattle in California’s Increasing Heat

By Samantha Nelson

An Unlikely Alliance of Farm and Environmental Groups Takes on Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin

Vintners and Farmers Are Breathing Easier After the Demise of Proposition 15, a ‘Headache’ at Best

By Evelyn Nieves

Warming Trends: A Climate Win in Austin, the Demise of Butterflies and the Threat of Food Pollution

By Katelyn Weisbrod