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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

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In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

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Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. If the emissions aren’t from the shoreline, no amount of straw bales is going to improve the air quality,” says John Gillies, an atmospheric physicist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.