Climate Change and Farming

Grist
View In: Farming Caussing Climate Change

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"How Pesticides Intensify Global Warming"

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Inside Climate News
View In: Farming Regulations and PoliticsAs drought continued to grip huge stretches of American farmland last week, decimating some crops and forcing farmers to plow under others or sell off livestock, a small, but critically related bureaucratic step advanced in Washington.  Over the past year the Securities and Exchange Commission, the country’...

Grist
View In: Farming Regulations and PoliticsThe state's agricultural lobby says local efforts to regulate CAFOs are illegal.

Grist
View In: Farming Regulations and PoliticsThis USDA program has been fighting soil erosion for decades. Now it’s pivoting to climate change.

The Guardian
View In: Climate Change's Impacts on FarmingBees taken from Giant Company’s field in PennsylvaniaField at corporate HQ supports bees, birds and small animalsNearly 60,000 bees have been stolen from a supermarket chain’s headquarters in Pennsylvania.The bees were stolen from the Giant Company’s corporate field on the Harrisburg Pike in Carlisl...

Popular Resistance
View In: Farming Regulations and PoliticsThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest $1 billion in projects that encourage farmers, ranchers and owners of forested land to employ practices that help mitigate the effects of climate change by lowering greenhouse gas emissions or catching and storing carbon, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsac...