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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Cryptocurrency Has a Huge Negative Impact on Climate Change
November 23, 2021Critics 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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The Radical Power of Your Sourdough Starter
January 28, 2021For 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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Analysis | Can We Undo Trump’s Environmental Damage?
January 28, 2021American climate policy can be salvaged, but environmentalists say action has to be swift and sweeping.
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A Reset for Unprecedented Times
January 4, 2021Buen Vivir is both a philosophy and a lived practice that puts Earth at the center of “the Good Life.”
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Opinion | Vanessa Nakate: America Needs to Lead on Climate Change
November 9, 2020The 23-year-old Ugandan climate activist explains what the U.S. election will mean for the future of the planet.
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Excerpt | Paying Attention to Nature—Urgently
August 3, 2020There’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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2018 was the fourth hottest year on record
February 8, 2019NASA 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…