Farming Drives Toward ‘Precision Agriculture’ Technologies
This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Across Midwestern farms, if Girish Chowdhary has his way, farmers will…
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A New Gas-Guzzling Postal Fleet Could Be Halted by Lawsuits
This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The saga of the United States Postal Service’s planned…
The Queen Conch’s Gambit
Archaeologists don’t know exactly how many Taíno survived the enslavement, massacres, and diseases that marked the following centuries—though genetic…
How Prescribed Burns Can Help Restore Eastern US Forests
By mid-afternoon, the team had seemingly painted fire onto the land, burning exactly where and what they wanted. The mature pines’ lower trunks were singed…
To Resurrect Jordan’s Lost Forests, People Plant Tiny Urban Ones
The team’s test plots also host some of Jordan’s rarest flora. In Marka, that includes saplings of Pistacia lentiscus, the wild pistachio tree—there are only…
As Climate Fears Mount, Some Are Relocating Within the US
In the Upper Valley region straddling southern Vermont and New Hampshire, the Brazil family has been working with Kasia Butterworth, a realtor with Coldwell…
How Does a Newt Cross the Road? With Lots of Human Help
Around a hundred miles to the south of Chileno Valley Road, another group of volunteers—the Alma Bridge Newt Patrol—have been painstakingly documenting more…
A Global Boom in Fences Is Harming Wildlife
Fence construction is growing rapidly throughout the world. An extension of the dingo fence is underway to add another 460 miles. Stout, often impermeable,…
Climate Change Is Disrupting the Global Supply Chain Too
Supply chains are, in essence, strings of potential bottlenecks. Each stopping point is a node in a tree-like system that conveys raw materials from the…
The EPA May Extend the Use of Pesticides that Paralyze Bees
This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to allow the…