Puerto Rico’s Small-Scale Farming Revolution
Faced with climate-related food shortages and vulnerabilities, Puerto Ricans are getting behind their local farmers.
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Virginians Craft a Plan to Boost Farmers While Reducing Beers’ Carbon Footprint
A Virginia effort to supply brewers with locally grown barley aims to limit shipping-related emissions and offer farmers a new opportunity.
Scientists and Farmers Cite Food and Water as Major Climate Concerns
Experts discuss solutions for food and water crises as well as tips for journalists at a Covering Climate Now press briefing.
Farm Workers Exposed to Climate Change Effects Are Demanding Protections
Wildfires and extreme temperatures are adding to the many dangers of one of the most high-risk jobs in America.
Feed Conversion Ratios Help Explain Meat’s Outsized Climate Impact
Why is all meat accused of being worse for the climate than plants? The feed conversion ratio helps explain why.
What Are the Environmental and Economic Issues Facing Rubber Production?
Natural rubber is widely considered a more eco-friendly and better product than synthetic rubber, but it still presents some issues. Natural rubber contributes to deforestation, biodiversity loss, pollution, and more. But climate change and disease also threaten natural rubber. And…
Those Most Vulnerable to Coronavirus Are Also Most Vulnerable to Climate Crisis
As COVID-19 shines a necessary light on our country's most vulnerable communities, many of them are simulanteously fighting the battle of climate change, as well.
A new generation of ocean farmers are reducing pollution with seaweed
Growing more seaweed could clean up an estimated 135 million tons of carbon and 10 million tons of nitrogen, according to a report from the World Bank.