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Food & Agriculture

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

The grass has a bad rap in the U.S. as an invasive nuisance, but the plant can quickly sequester at least double—and maybe even six times—the amount of carbon as a similar stand of trees.

By Audrey Gray

Three species of farm-cultivated bamboo towering in Hawkinsville, Georgia. Credit: Audrey Gray
Jacob Katz, director of Central Valley operations for the conservation nonprofit California Trout, looks out on the Sacramento River, near the Rough and Ready Pumping Station.

Harnessing Rice Fields to Resurrect California’s Endangered Salmon

By Liza Gross

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris look on as Tom Vilsack, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Agriculture, delivers remarks at the Queen Theater December 11, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Vilsack served for eight years as President Barack Obama’s secretary of Agriculture. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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

By Georgina Gustin

Hogs are raised on July 25, 2018 near Osage, Iowa. Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy have set out to capture the methane emitted from giant hog manure “lagoons,” convert it into biogas and inject that biogas into pipelines to heat homes and buildings.

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

By Georgina Gustin

Waste grain is left in harvested fields on Staten Island in the California Delta as forage for greater sandhill cranes, a state listed endangered species. Credit: Liza Gross

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

By Liza Gross

Cows are sensitive to heat, and overheating can reduce milk production and lead to seriousc health problems.

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

By Samantha Nelson

An aerial view of mostly harvested farmland at sunset on Oct. 30, 2020 in Lacona, Iowa. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

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

By Georgina Gustin

The vineyards at the Somerston Estate Winery & Vineyards are seen amid California wildfires on Sept. 30, 2020 in St. Helena, California. Credit: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times

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

By Evelyn Nieves

A voter walks toward a polling location on election day in Austin, Texas on Nov. 3, 2020. Credit: Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Luis Magaña, a long-time advocate for farmworkers' justice, spends much of his time doing outreach in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. Courtesy of Luis Magaña

Luis Magaña Has Spent 20 Years Advocating for Farmworkers, But He’s Never Seen Anything Like This

By Evelyn Nieves

Tule Elk. Credit: Julia Kane/InsideClimate News

California Ranchers and Activists Face Off Over a Federal Plan to Cull a Beloved Tule Elk Herd

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A planned restoration of the forest, meadows and wetlands in this floodplain near Leipzig, Germany, will boost biodiversity by improving wildlife habitat, and bolster climate mitigation by increasing carbon storage. Credit: Hendrik Schmidt/picture allianc

Targeted Ecosystem Restoration Can Protect Climate, Biodiversity

By Bob Berwyn

Crops are sprayed with fertilizer to promote the growth of sorghum crops in Heilongjiang Province, China, on July 1, 2020. Credit: Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

Emissions of Nitrous Oxide, a Climate Super-Pollutant, Are Rising Fast on a Worst-Case Trajectory

By Phil McKenna

Valerie Leveroni Corral surveys medical cannabis plants from all over the world at one of WAMM Phytotherapies' gardens, cultivated at a former Boy Scout Camp in unincorporated Santa Cruz County. Credit: Evelyn Nieves/InsideClimate News

The Biggest Threat to Growing Marijuana in California Used to Be the Law. Now, it’s Climate Change

By Evelyn Nieves

Barn and windmill of a farm seen through a fence at sunrise in Ballena in California. Credit: Mickey Strider/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California Farm Bureau Fears Improvements Like Barns, and Even Trees, Will Be Taxed Under Prop. 15

By Evelyn Nieves

The California sate capitol building is seen in Sacramento. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The Grandson of a Farmworker Now Heads the California Assembly’s Committee on Agriculture

By Evelyn Nieves

Rob Sinskey stands in his backyard vineyard, where he is experimenting with growing varieties of wine grapes considered more drought tolerant and resistant to climate change. Credit: Evelyn Nieves/InsideClimate News

A Most ‘Sustainable’ Vineyard in a ‘Completely Unsustainable’ Year

By Evelyn Nieves

Democratic Kansas state senator Barbara Bollier (left) and U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) are vying for a seat in the Senate to represent Kansas. Credit: Barbara Bollier; Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Senate 2020: In Kansas, a Democratic Climate Hawk Closes in on a Republican Climate Skeptic

By Georgina Gustin

Grapes growing in vineyard near Delano in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In a Dry State, Farmers Use Oil Wastewater to Irrigate Their Fields, but is it Safe?

By Abby Weiss

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