Legumes are great for people and soil, but high prices for corn and soy, plus extreme weather due to climate change, threaten domestic production.
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Critics warn that cryptocurrency networks, whose computers use enormous amounts of electricity to verify transactions, could be a factor in warming the planet. The industry is working to change that.
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For fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, making sourdough, kimchi, and kombucha is about more than eating well at home. It’s a metaphor for creative systemic change, bubbling away from the ground…
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American climate policy can be salvaged, but environmentalists say action has to be swift and sweeping.
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Buen Vivir is both a philosophy and a lived practice that puts Earth at the center of “the Good Life.”
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The 23-year-old Ugandan climate activist explains what the U.S. election will mean for the future of the planet.
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There’s the octopus in the parking garage, and 26,500 other signs that climate change is here.
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The coronavirus pandemic has revealed one particularly shocking thing about our societies and economies: they have been operating on a very thin margin.
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NASA and NOAA data show that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, while the hottest is 2016. Global surface temperature records go back nearly 140 years. During that…
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Carolyn Kormann on a new report from the I.P.C.C., which states that global climate change will have catastrophic consequences once the planet surpasses 1.5 degrees of warming, which could happen…
