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“Climate Smart” Beef Was Never More Than a Marketing Fantasy

Frida Garza / 01/12/2025

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Shoppers have long sought ways to make more sustainable choices at the supermarket—and for good reason: Our food system is responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. The vast majority of emissions from agriculture come from raising cows on industrial […]

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California Is Failing to Protect Health and Safety of Child Farmworkers

Robert J. Lopez / 27/11/2025

The climate of fear has made families more reluctant than ever to complain about unsafe working conditions.

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The Case Against Thanksgiving Turkey

Marina Bolotnikova / 27/11/2025

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Thursday, tens of millions of Americans will partake in a national ritual many of us say we don’t especially enjoy or find meaning in. We will collectively eat more than 40 million turkeys—factory farmed and heavily engineered animals that bear scant resemblance to the wild birds […]

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A Surprisingly Powerful Tool to Make Cities More Livable

Matt Simon / 23/11/2025

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you’ve spent any time on a roof, you know that it’s not especially pleasant up there—blazing in the summer, frigid and windy in the winter. Slap some solar panels up there, though, and the calculus changes: Shaded from gusts […]

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Biofuels Push at COP30 Could Accelerate Climate Crisis and Threaten Food Supply

Ayurella Horn-Muller / 22/11/2025

Despite their positioning as a green alternative, experts warn biofuels expansion could have catastrophic consequences.

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Iran’s Capital Must Relocate Due to Dire Water Situation, President Insists

Shayna Korol / 22/11/2025

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tehran is running out of water. Rationing has begun in Iran’s capital city, with some of the approximately 10 million residents experiencing “nightly pressure cuts” between midnight and 5 am. The entire country is in an unprecedented drought, facing its driest—and hottest—autumn in nearly […]

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How the Federal Shutdown Broke America’s Food Chain

Ayurella Horn-Muller / 20/11/2025

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a dramatic twist of political defections and contentious concessions, the longest ever federal shutdown came to a close last week as Congress finally managed to agree on a deal to reopen the government. Federal agencies are now beginning to […]

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This Ohio County Banned Commercial Wind and Solar. Not So Fast, Residents Said.

Kathiann M. Kowalski / 19/11/2025

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Restrictions on solar and wind farms are proliferating around the country, with scores of local governments going as far as to forbid large-scale clean-energy developments. Now, residents of an Ohio county are pushing back on one such ban on renewables—a move that […]

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“I Was Contaminated”: New Study Reveals Widespread Pesticide Exposure

Ajit Niranjan / 29/10/2025

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Khoji Wesselius has noticed the oily scent of pesticides during spraying periods when the wind has blown through his tiny farming village in a rural corner of the Netherlands. Now, after volunteering in an experiment to count […]

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The World Is Running Out of Fresh Water. What Happens If We Do?

Dan Ross / 23/10/2025

The pace of freshwater depletion is staggering. An area twice the size of California is drying up annually.

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The Shutdown Will Worsen Hunger—Which the Trump Administration Just Stopped Tracking

Ayurella Horn-Muller / 14/10/2025

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal government shutdown is stretching into a second week with no end in sight. As Democrats and Republicans in Congress face a politically charged funding impasse, nutrition experts warn that women and children reliant on federal food assistance funding […]

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