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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

Seagulls flock over the recently tilled ground as a farmer prepares his field in Ruthsburg, Maryland, on April 25, 2022. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Georgina Gustin

Dairy cows at Bar 20 line up in the feedlot. Credit: Grace van Deelen

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

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

Steve Shehadey, owner of Bar 20 Dairy Farm, walks through the feedlot on his farm. Credit: 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

Dairy cows have just been milked in Bar 20's milking barn. Credit: Grace van Deelen

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

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

A bumblebee hangs on a still-red blueberry. Credit: Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images

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

Aerial view of combine harvesting corn in a field near Jarrettsville, Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

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

By Georgina Gustin

Christine Gemperle shells an almond freshly picked from a tree in her grove in Ceres. Credit: Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

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

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Cattle graze by a reservoir on June 30, 2021 in Mesa County near Whitewater, Colorado. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

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

Cows are seen at a farm on Jan. 17, 2020 in Ancramdale, New York. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

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

A worker steps out of a cement-mixing truck at a cement production plant, part of Thailand's largest industrial conglomerate Siam Cement Co. Credit: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Trends: Chilling in a Heat Wave, Healthy Food Should Eat Healthy Too, Breeding Delays for Wild Dogs, and Three Days of Climate Change in Song

By Katelyn Weisbrod

National Renewable Energy Laboratory researcher Jordan Macknick carries a tray of seedlings for crops being planted at a testing site in Colorado, part of a study on growing plants alongside solar panels. Credit: Werner Slocum / NREL

Inside Clean Energy: Yes, There Are Benefits of Growing Broccoli Beneath Solar Panels

By Dan Gearino

This aerial image shows a tractor pumps water from a flooded field, near Orchard, Antelope County Nebraska on May 5, 2019. Credit: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Are Pursuing Flood-Resistant Crops, Thanks to Climate-Induced Heavy Rains and Other Extreme Weather

By Grace van Deelen

A farmer digs to check soil moisture on his farmland in Firebaugh, California in the state's San Joaquin Valley, on March 11, 2009. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

California Considers ‘Carbon Farming’ As a Potential Climate Solution. Ardent Proponents, and Skeptics, Abound

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Livestock outside of Bakersfield in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Feeding Cows Seaweed Reduces Their Methane Emissions, but California Farms Are a Long Way From Scaling Up the Practice

By Grace van Deelen

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