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A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. The process of getting the bees to the almonds adds another stressor. Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 170 MILLION MONTHLY UNIQUE VIEWERS GLOBALLY Grist This article is part of FERN’s series The Biodiversity Crisis /.slide-intro

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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

Drop Bear takes care of some of their energy needs with solar panels and uses excess heat generated during the brewing process to warm their buildings. Kernza® is a deeply rooted perennial grain harvested from intermediate wheatgrass and provided to the breweries by A-Frame Farm in Minnesota. “By for a new beer initiative.

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PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

Civil Eats

Once the Clean Water Act passed in 1972, many chemicals and toxins that had flowed freely from paper mills into Maine’s rivers started to be processed through sewage plants. The challenge facing the scientists now is the removal of the PFAS from the hemp plants once they’re harvested. The sources of contamination were numerous.

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Syngenta Seeds and Sustainable Oils to Sell Camelina Seed

Agwired

We’re proud to be working with Syngenta to bring this opportunity to more farmers, improving our soil health and carbon storage while strengthening our nation’s domestic energy production in the process.” Farmers who buy camelina seed will have a harvest purchase contract. 2023 Farm Progress Show Photo Album

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The whole dam truth

Food Environment and Reporting Network

slide-intro --> The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem By Robert Langellier , March 27, 2024 Buzzkill By Dan Charles , December 18, 2023 How mushrooms can prevent megafires By Stephen Robert Miller , July 10, 2023 A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

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Almonds are Under Threat. The Key to Saving Them Could Be in the Soil

Modern Farmer

Plus, there are multiple uses for each nut harvested. The shells are used in cosmetics, as bedding for livestock and in biofuels. When it comes time to harvest, the only thing you’re picking up is almonds, nothing else.” And guess what it replaces? Alfalfa, which uses more water than almonds.”

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Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. A variety of seaweed harvested from the Gulf of Maine, including sugar kelp, sea lettuce, dulse, bladderwrack, and Irish moss.

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