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Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas

Operators pump a sea of “produced water” underground for disposal. Intensifying tremors raise fears that the deep toxic waste pits could intermingle with water for farming and drinking.

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, with photos by Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune

As Emissions From Agriculture Rise and Climate Change Batters American Farms, Congress Tackles the Farm Bill

By Georgina Gustin

Amid Drought, Wealthy Homeowners in New Mexico are Getting a Tax Break to Water Their Lawns

By Wyatt Myskow

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

The ‘Plant Daddy of Dallas’ Is Paving the Way for Clean, Profitable Urban Agriculture

By Autumn Jones

Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Hospital Ward for Starving Children in Kenya Has Seen a Surge in Cases This Year

By Georgina Gustin

John Entsminger, who runs the Southern Nevada Water Authority, said states will probably come up with an "imperfect alternative" to last until 2026, when current rules for managing the Colorado River expire and states are expected to draw up a "longer-term, more durable solution." Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

‘It Is Going to Take Real Cuts to Everyone’: Leaders Meet to Decide the Future of the Colorado River

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

By Georgina Gustin

A New Push Is on in Chicago to Connect Urban Farmers With Institutional Buyers Like Schools and Hospitals

By Aydali Campa

Ann Tenakhongva, right, 62, and her husband, Clark Tenakhongva, 65, sort traditional Hopi corn at their home on First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona in late September, 2022. The corn comes from the family's field in the valley between First Mesa and Second Mesa, which Clark had just harvested. The corn is organized on racks to dry out and then stored in cans and bins for years to come. Much of the corn is ground up for food and ceremonial uses. Credit: David Wallace

Corn Nourishes the Hopi Identity, but Climate-Driven Drought Is Stressing the Tribe’s Foods and Traditions

By David Wallace

Mil Milhas na Amazônia, para Mudar a Maneira como o Mundo Funciona

By Katie Surma

Pennsylvania’s Dairy Farmers Clamor for Candidates Who Will Cut Environmental Regulations

By Grace van Deelen

A Thousand Miles in the Amazon, to Change the Way the World Works

By Katie Surma

Beset by Drought, a West Texas Farmer Loses His Cotton Crop and Fears a Hotter and Drier Future State Water Planners Aren’t Considering

By Autumn Jones

California’s ‘Most Sustainable’ Dairy is Doing What’s Best for Business

By Grace van Deelen

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

Billions in USDA Conservation Funding Went to Farmers for Programs that Were Not ‘Climate-Smart,’ a New Study Finds

By Georgina Gustin

Expansion of a Lucrative Dairy Digester Market is Sowing Environmental Worries in the U.S.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

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