Food & Agriculture
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
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
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
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
Inside Clean Energy: Yes, There Are Benefits of Growing Broccoli Beneath Solar Panels
By Dan Gearino
Scientists Are Pursuing Flood-Resistant Crops, Thanks to Climate-Induced Heavy Rains and Other Extreme Weather
By Grace van Deelen
California Considers ‘Carbon Farming’ As a Potential Climate Solution. Ardent Proponents, and Skeptics, Abound
By Emma Foehringer Merchant