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Amazon Burning: What Can We Do To Stop Spreading Wildfires?

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss Amazon, Amazon burning, beef, cattle, farming, fire, fires, forest, logging, rainforest, wild

The Amazon rainforest of South America is burning at an unprecedented rate. What can we to stop these forest fires from spreading?

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Climate Friendly Farms: Agriculture Adapts to Global Warming

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer ag, agricultural, agriculture, anaerobic, Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources, Climate Resistant Farms, climate-friendly, conservation, cropping, cropping system, CSANR, digestio, farm, farming, FCIP, Federal Crop Insurance Program, green, irrigation, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, precision farming, satellite, satellite farming, smart farming, soil stewardship, tillage, Washington State University, waste-to-energy, water

Farms and farmers across the U.S. are adopting climate-friendly practices to improve soil quality and save water as global warming kicks in…

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Conventional Agriculture: Far From A Green Revolution

Georgina Guiney agriculture, EPA, farm, farming, fields, glysophate, Green Revolution, health, herbicides, Local Harvest, organic, pesticides, Roundup, spraying, standards, WholeFoods, workers

You call this a revolution? Spraying fields with synthetic chemicals to keep pests down is no way to take care of the planet and its inhabitants’ health.

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What’s Killing All the Bees?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer agriculture, bee, bees, farm, farmer, farmers, farming, honey, honeybee, insecticides, Jeff Merkley, neonics, organic, pesticides, pollen, pollinate, pollination, pollinator

Activists would like the U.S. government to ban a class of insecticides called neonics that they blame for wiping out the bees that pollinate a majority of our food crops.

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What advantages do vertical farms have over traditional gardens and farms?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer agriculture, farm, farming, garden, organic, roof, roof garden, vertical

Dear EarthTalk: What advantages do so-called “vertical farms” have over traditional gardens and farms? Sylvia Pleasant, Washington, DC When Dickson Despommier’s book The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century was first published, there were no vertical farms. Now, it’s an exciting movement […]

Developing Crops Resistant to Climate Change Effects

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Is global warming making our crops less nutritious?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer agriculture, climate change, crops, farming, food, global warming, nutrient, nutrition

Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that global warming is causing our crops to be less nutritious? — William Persson, Glendale, OH It’s difficult to say whether or not the climate change we are now experiencing is negatively impacting the nutritional quality of our food, but researchers warn that it may be only a matter of time. […]