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Report Finds That Agriculture Is Breaching Several Planetary Boundaries

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The report lays out 47 concrete actions that agriculture businesses can take to restore Earth’s ecological balance— while maintaining a positive return-on-investment. According to Hopman, agri-food companies are facing real threats to their profits because of factors like declining soil health and nutrient pollution.

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The Mashpee Wampanoag Work With a Cape Cod Town to Restore Their Fishing Grounds

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Joshua Reitsma, a marine chemist at the nearby Woods Hole Oceanographic Institut ion , says this effluent is responsible for 80 percent of the Capes nutrient pollution, leading to algal blooms that blanket the surface in summer and fall to the bottom in winter.

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NOAA Is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture. Not Everyone Is Onboard.

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Opponents to the plan point to known risks, including ecological disasters like the infamous 2017 salmon spill that took place in Washington State waters when a salmon net pen collapsed, releasing roughly 300,000 Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound. However, not everyone sees it this way. meter per second but typically less than 1.6