Acre Industrial Agriculture Science 
The Equation
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Woods brings decades of experience in the application of spatial data science to her work studying the environmental and health impacts of the US food and agriculture system. Wetlands in the United States are now even more vulnerable after the Supreme Courts 2023 decision in Sackett v. STACY WOODS: Yes. We estimated that the 30.4
Civil Eats
MARCH 11, 2025
While the current administration may blame woke DEI environmentalists for the blazes, science shows that the climate crisis contributed to the severity of the damage. As Raj Patel, author and a Civil Eats advisor, points out on Fuel to Fork , fossil fuels enable certain kinds of large-scale industrial agriculture to be profitable.
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Food Tank
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
He’s the recipient of the World Food Prize and a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University. Food and Agriculture Organization calculates—which makes the problem of soil erosion so much more concerning. I had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Lal recently at a U.N. And they’re pushing innovation.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
In modern times, there’s a long tradition of techno-optimists or cornucopians–science writer Charles C. But in the Vaud, the fields were relatively small, a few dozen acres at most, and people were careful to plant fruit and nut-bearing trees alongside the edges.
The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
But for now, to offset flood risk from rising water levels, the State Water Resources Control Board has agreed to send more than 600,000 acre-feet of water (pretty much what Los Angeles consumes in a year) to areas where it can soak into the ground and replenish the aquifer beneath the San Joaquin Valley.
The Equation
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Woods brings decades of experience in the application of spatial data science to her work studying the environmental and health impacts of the US food and agriculture system. Wetlands in the United States are now even more vulnerable after the Supreme Courts 2023 decision in Sackett v. STACY WOODS: Yes. We estimated that the 30.4
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute.
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