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    Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water

    Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water

    By Daniel Ross Hurricane Florence, which battered the U.S. East Coast last September, left a trail of ruin and destruction estimated to cost between $17 billion and $22 billion. Some of the damage was all too visible—smashed homes and livelihoods. But other damage was less so, like the long-term environmental impacts in North Carolina from […]

    Soil Health: The Next Agricultural Revolution

    Soil Health: The Next Agricultural Revolution

    By adopting three practices—no-till farming, cover crops and diverse crop rotations—farmers worldwide can help preserve the world’s soils, feed a growing global population, mitigate climate change and protect the environment. This was the key message of a presentation by David Montgomery, professor of geology at the University of Washington, at the Iowa Organic Conference in […]

    How ‘Agricultural Intelligence’ Is Using Tech to Fight Climate Change

    How ‘Agricultural Intelligence’ Is Using Tech to Fight Climate Change

    By Karn Manhas Wildfires across North America, Europe and Australia. Animal species dying out at unprecedented rates. Extreme weather events. Rising sea levels. Climate change, long an invisible menace, exacted a very real toll in 2018. But beneath the surface lies another, widely overlooked link between these calamities: the way we grow our food. Agriculture […]

    Could a Green New Deal Boost the Farm and Food Justice Movement?

    Could a Green New Deal Boost the Farm and Food Justice Movement?

    By Eric Holt-Giménez Over eight decades ago, the Dust Bowl devastated over 100,000,000 acres of agricultural land and the Great Depression threw 15 million Americans out of work. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted the New Deal with sweeping national programs for work, agriculture, food, and land conservation. Today, the plan for a Green New Deal […]

    Climate Change Makes Soils Saltier, Forcing Farmers to Find New Livelihoods

    Climate Change Makes Soils Saltier, Forcing Farmers to Find New Livelihoods

    By Joyce J. Chen and Valerie Mueller Salt is essential for cooking, but too much salt in soil can ruin crops and render fields useless. According to legend, Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus sowed the soils of Carthage with salt after conquering the city during the Punic Wars. And after defeating the Italian town of […]

    Earth Is ‘Breathing’ in This Eerie Video

    Earth Is ‘Breathing’ in This Eerie Video

    In a recent video filmed in Sacre-Coeur, Quebec, Mother Nature appears to be gasping for air. Even the surrounding trees are struggling to stand under the literal force of nature. Is Earth breathing a collective sigh? To be fair, she’s had a pretty rough 2018 after a string of record-breaking hurricanes, destructive wildfires and a […]