Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. By creating tunnels, theyre also creating a thermal refuge, said Hila Shamon, the director of the Smithsonians Great Plains Science Program and principal investigator of the colony-mapping project.

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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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

As climate change intensifies, people are “panicking,” said Kristen Davis, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth system science at University of California, Irvine. coast, according to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

My 89-year-old Aunt Corinne told me recently that when she was a child, she was her dad’s – my great-grandfather’s – “right-hand man” on their 1,500-acre ranch in the Texas Hill Country. Family members share that risk. She helped him work the land, riding a horse named Booger Red. The work and risks didn’t end when she got home.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These entities will pass most of the money on to tens of thousands of farmers, ranchers, and forest owners, including growers who manage thousands of acres and underserved and disadvantaged farmers who often have much smaller operations. Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields. That has left cover crops as essentially the last major idea standing for turning the roughly 400 million acres that U.S. Kumar, Indigo’s vice president of sustainability sciences. percent for corn and 3.5

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