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

Most Hopi grow corn with only the precipitation that falls on their fields, but two decades of drought have some of them testing the waters of irrigation and hoping they can preserve other customs with their harvests.

By David Wallace

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

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

Just Two Development Companies Drive One of California’s Most Controversial Climate Programs: Manure Digesters

By Grace van Deelen, Emma Foehringer Merchant

California Has Provided Incentives for Methane Capture at Dairies, but the Program May Have ‘Unintended Consequences’

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops

By Liza Gross

Researchers explain pearl millet pollination techniques in India. Credit: Michael Major/Crop Trust

The Botanic Matchmakers that Could Save Our Food Supply

By Mark Schapiro

Big Agriculture and the Farm Bureau Help Lead a Charge Against SEC Rules Aimed at Corporate Climate Transparency

By Georgina Gustin

Out in the Fields, Contemplating Humanity and a Parched Almond Farm

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

The Bureau of Land Management Lets 1.5 Million Cattle Graze on Federal Land for Almost Nothing, but the Cost to the Climate Could Be High

By Georgina Gustin

Manure-Eating Worms Could Be the Dairy Industry’s Climate Solution

By Grace van Deelen

Robert Wallace operates a Solectrac electric tractor at his home in Dufur, Oregon. Wallace, a rural energy expert, places electric agricultural equipment for free tests on Oregon farms and gardens. Credit: Grant Stringer

A New Project in Rural Oregon Is Letting Farmers Test Drive Electric Tractors in the Name of Science

By Grant Stringer

Warming Trends: Carbon-Neutral Concrete, Climate-Altered Menus and Olympic Skiing in Vanuatu

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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