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Food & Agriculture

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

Pastoralists from the local Gabra community walk among carcasses of some of their sheep and goats on the outskirts of a small settlement called 'Kambi ya Nyoka' (snake camp) suspected to have succumbed due to sudden change in climate in Marsabit county January 29, 2022. - A devastating drought in Kenya late-last year, that appeared to give way to flash storms that yielded flooding and chilly weather conditions in early 2022, has seen pastoral communities in the east african nation's arid north lose their livestock, first to drought and then floods and cold. Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

In Africa, Conflict and Climate Super-Charge the Forces Behind Famine and Food Insecurity

By Georgina Gustin

A worker with OC Waste & Recycling watches as a screening machine separates decomposed green waste at the new composting operation at a landfill in Irvine on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Credit: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

California Gears Up for a New Composting Law to Cut Methane Emissions and Enrich Soil

By Grace van Deelen

California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater

By Liza Gross

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