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How Did Farmer Brown Bring His Dying Land Back From the Brink?

How Did Farmer Brown Bring His Dying Land Back From the Brink?

By Jeff Turrentine Sometimes enlightenment arrives as a flash of epiphany: a gravity-obeying apple that falls from a tree, for instance, or a blinding light that freezes you in your tracks on the road to Damascus. Other times, though, it’s more of a process. That’s how Gabe Brown came to regenerative agriculture. About 20 years […]

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    Street Art and Augmented Reality Get Real About Climate in Miami

    Street Art and Augmented Reality Get Real About Climate in Miami

    By Patrick Rogers After South Beach, Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood is the city’s epicenter of color and creativity. The low-slung postindustrial landscape just north of Miami’s downtown is an Instagrammer’s paradise—block after block of warehouses covered with vivid murals by some of the world’s greatest street artists, among them Kenny Scharf, Shepard Fairey and Maya Hayuk. […]

    The Environmental Legacy of Senator John McCain, 1936-2018

    The Environmental Legacy of Senator John McCain, 1936-2018

    As news outlets around the country reflect on Senator John McCain’s life and legacy following his death at 81 on Saturday, one strand that emerges is his attempts as a Senator to push bipartisan action on climate change. In early 2003, McCain joined with then-Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman to introduce the Climate Stewardship Act, which […]

    Blotting Out the Sun to Save the Earth? Seriously?

    Blotting Out the Sun to Save the Earth? Seriously?

    By Jeff Turrentine Science fiction doesn’t always stay fictional. Space exploration, robots and self-driving cars are just a few of the modern-day wonders that once existed only as plot devices or fantastical theories. Our capacity for turning science-fictional notions into the stuff of everyday life has grown with each new generation of scientists and microchips, […]

    What Would a Monsanto-Bayer Merger Really Grow?

    What Would a Monsanto-Bayer Merger Really Grow?

    By Courtney Lindwall A megamerger between two of the world’s biggest agricultural corporations looms on the horizon. The seed and pesticide giant Monsanto is inching closer to uniting with the German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer—a consolidation that could spell disaster for farmers, pollinators, and affordable, healthy food. Here’s why the Monsanto-Bayer merger is a […]

    The Health Risks of Our Sweltering Summers

    The Health Risks of Our Sweltering Summers

    By Vijay Limaye and Kim Knowlton The health threats of climate change are on full display this summer as communities around the world deal with record-breaking heat. Carbon pollution driving climate change is causing significant human suffering by making extremely hot days more common, and increasing the frequency and severity of drought and dangerous wildfires. […]

    Trump State Dept. Attempts ‘Shortcut’ to Build KXL Pipeline, Groups Say

    Trump State Dept. Attempts ‘Shortcut’ to Build KXL Pipeline, Groups Say

    Environmentalists spoke out against President Donald Trump‘s State Department after it found “no significant environmental impacts” in its review of TransCanada’s long-gestating Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline. The alternative route approved by Nebraska regulators in November would have “minor to moderate” impacts from its construction and operation, according to the 300-page draft report released Monday. It […]

    More Than 17,500 Square Miles Protected for Hawaii’s False Killer Whales

    More Than 17,500 Square Miles Protected for Hawaii’s False Killer Whales

    Monday the National Marine Fisheries Service designated 17,500 square miles of ocean as protected critical habitat for Hawaii’s false killer whales, a dolphin species whose numbers have dwindled to around 150 in the wild. The new rule, responding to legal action by the Natural Resources Defense Council, designates critical habitat from a depth of 45 […]

    Culture Clash: Nature and Civilization Face Off in the Art of Michael Wang

    Culture Clash: Nature and Civilization Face Off in the Art of Michael Wang

    By Patrick Rogers The rooftop garden of the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art gallery in New York looks much like you’d expect of a newly renovated former bank building in lower Manhattan. Rows of simple aluminum planters line the small rectangular space, sprouting leafy greenery that frames views of the busy streets below. Yet this ordinary-looking […]