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How can California solve its water woes? By flooding its best farmland.
Restored floodplains in the state’s agricultural heartland are fighting both flooding and drought. But their fate rests with California’s powerful farmers.
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![An activist at COP28 calls for climate action on food systems.]()
![An activist at COP28 calls for climate action on food systems.]()
The world now has a roadmap for food and climate. But it’s missing a few things.
For one, the U.N.'s proposal barely mentions fossil fuels.
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![Pallets loaded with oyster shells are held by a winch over a river.]()
![Pallets loaded with oyster shells are held by a winch over a river.]()
How much carbon can oysters store? Scientists are trying to find out.
Oysters stabilize shorelines, trap carbon-rich sediment, and help marshes grow.
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![A protester dressed a butcher stabs a model of Earth as part of a demonstration calling on people to go vegan]()
![A protester dressed a butcher stabs a model of Earth as part of a demonstration calling on people to go vegan]()
What would it take to end the meat culture wars?
A COP28 proposal to eat less meat would come amid a right-wing backlash against alternatives.
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![dotted line cutout of a beef cow]()
What would happen if everyone stopped eating meat tomorrow?
Answering that question shows just how tricky it would be to drop meat altogether.
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![Illustrated portrait of a white man in his 70s (Peter Martin) with an orange map of Maui and black palm trees in the background]()
![Illustrated portrait of a white man in his 70s (Peter Martin) with an orange map of Maui and black palm trees in the background]()
The libertarian developer looming over West Maui’s water conflict
Peter Martin spent decades guzzling water around Lāhainā. Then came the fire.
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![Illustration of cookbooks leaning against a striped utensil holder]()
![Illustration of cookbooks leaning against a striped utensil holder]()
Will climate cookbooks change how we eat?
Sustainable diets have been around for ages, but an emerging cookbook genre signals a new appetite for change.
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A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’
The inside story of how AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.
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![digital illustration of a King / Coho salmon in front of a tattered fishing net]()
Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life
As waters warm, Alaska Native families confront a world without the fish that fed them for generations.
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![A brown and white dairy cow with a large tag reading 237 attached to its right ear awaits milking at a dairy farm.]()
![A brown and white dairy cow with a large tag reading 237 attached to its right ear awaits milking at a dairy farm.]()
Why can’t we just quit cows?
Eating less beef, cheese, and ice cream would slash emissions. If only it were that easy.
