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A green field of monoculture corn almost looks like a solid wall beneath a cloudy, grey sky.

Why aren’t more US farmers using sustainable practices?

 Environment
• April 27, 2021

Financial, cultural and structural barriers stand in the way, but momentum is on the side of a changing agricultural landscape

A black cicada with bulging red eyes and translucent amber wings perches on a twig against a leafy green background.

How reliable is ‘cicadian rhythm’ in a changing world?

 Environment
• April 23, 2021

Brood X periodical cicadas come out every 17 years and are set to emerge this spring. One day, they might not

Mississippi river in St. Paul, Minnesota.

How a Minnesota town cut back on salt

 Environment
• April 9, 2021

Chloride pollution, caused largely by de-icing salts and water softeners, is increasing across the country. A small town in Minnesota is fed up.

Brooklyn Bridge Park, East River

The lost and future wildlife of New York City’s East River

 Environment
• April 8, 2021

New York City’s East River was once a bustling wildlife habitat. Could yesterday’s ecosystem return to today's metropolis?

Alaska’s remote communities are looking to wean themselves off fossil fuels

 Environment
• March 3, 2021

Diesel fuel is costly and polluting, so communities are exploring other options

Two vaquitas pictured in the water. The right one has their back and rear fin visible, and the left one's face is visible.

Don’t blame genetics if we lose the world’s rarest marine mammal

 Environment
• March 3, 2021

About 10 vaquitas are left on the planet, but a new study confirms fishing nets pose a much bigger extinction threat than inbreeding

Three workers on top of a large pile of fetilizer bags, with a yellow construction machine behind them.

Soil erosion is washing farms’ phosphorus down the drain

 Environment
• February 17, 2021

Experts warn erosion is depleting the essential but scarce soil nutrient

Honeybee perches on purple and yellow flower gathering nectar

Roundup may harm honeybee gut health

 Environment
• January 25, 2021

The popular weed killer could impair honeybees’ immune systems, leaving them vulnerable to infections

Whooping crane, Grus americana, endangered species native to North America [Credit: Ryan Hagerty | CC 0]

How the Biden administration can take action for biodiversity conservation

 Environment
• January 20, 2021

Biodiversity loss represents a growing environmental threat, conservationists say

Davon Goodwin on his farm in Laurinburg, North Carolina

For Black farmers, climate change magnifies existing inequality

 Environment
• January 19, 2021

Global warming does not discriminate, but the system that prepares farmers for it does

A tree infested with the tell-tale white, fluffy egg sacs of the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive species spreading through the Northeast U.S that can kill ecologically important hemlock trees. Credit: Nicholas A. Tonelli | CC BY 2.0

Spurred by climate change, invasive species threat looms over northeast U.S.

 Environment
• January 15, 2021

Global warming tips the scales in favor of invaders in the region

A heather blueberry plant takes up the whole frame. Small, dark blue berries dot a shrub with rounded leaves. Most leaves are bright green, some are orange and red.

The evolution of ethnobotany

 Environment
• January 13, 2021

To save the plants, one scientific field highlights the importance of protecting Indigenous knowledge

Meat processed in a meat-processing facility

Go big or go home mentality leaves out small butchers and farmers

 Environment
• January 11, 2021

The pandemic has exposed and worsened deep-seated problems in a meat industry dominated by huge producers

A color satellite image of Hurricane Delta swirling above the Gulf Coast

More than just a weather forecast

 Environment
• January 6, 2021

Meteorologists are starting to talk about climate change

Farm on the edge of northern Chesapeake Bay, with little vegetation buffer and riprap shoreline

For coastal farmers, climate change rubs salt in their wounds

 Environment
• December 23, 2020

Spurred by global warming and development, saltwater intrusion is a growing threat to coastal agriculture

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