The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

As climate change continues and farming areas get hotter and drier—as expected in the Southern Great Plains and Southwest—erosion could increasingly take the form of dust storms when bone-dry fields are plowed. Preventing soil loss from farms and its damaging consequences is possible, and it starts with keeping farm soils covered.

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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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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. The previous National Academy of Sciences study on links between human and soil health has been deleted, as it is already under way.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We Farmland itself was also once a major source of atmospheric carbon dioxide as farmers cleared carbon-rich forests and plowed up prairie soils, releasing carbon from trees and the ground. 28, 2019. “It

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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. The Nature Conservancy, Project Drawdown and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have all based optimistic claims of cover crops’ potential benefits largely on this study. percent for corn and 3.5

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The industry and its allies responded, adopting tactics used for years by the fossil fuel companies to fight the climate-change narrative: dispute the science, tar critics as radicals, and trumpet the essentialness of the product—meat feeds the world. The narrative around meat in America was shifting.

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