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Agriculture Is Consuming Grasslands and Wetlands at Alarming Rates

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Agriculture is widely known to be the biggest driver of forest destruction globally, especially in sprawling, high-profile ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest.  But new research published this week finds that non-forest ecosystems—the world’s grasslands, savannas, and wetlands—are being devoured […]

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Farmers Were Promised $400 Million in Drought Aid. Trump’s USDA Ghosted Them.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For those coaxing thirsty crops like alfalfa from the parched fields and withered pasturelands in Eloy, Arizona, water is as good as gold—and just as scarce. “We’ve had nothing from the Colorado River for the last two or three years. I mean, […]

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These Haitian Meatpacking Workers Face Deportation. They Voted to Strike Anyway.

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This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these threats, the largely immigrant union workers at a JBS beef plant […]

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Trump’s SNAP Rules Are About to Imperil Food Access for Millions

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Veterans, people aging out of foster care, and parents of teenagers are just a few of the groups who will face dire consequences from new work requirements for people receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, on Sunday, February 1.  Expected to impact millions of Americans and cause around two million recipients to stop receiving […]

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How Trumpism Is Trickling Down to Your Town

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Donica Brady lost her job after the Trump administration cut grant funding to bring solar power across the country, including to tribal nations. She picked up multiple jobs to make ends meet. That, in addition to caring for children, whittled down Brady’s free time. So she invited reporter Ilana Newman over when she found a […]

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Arizona Governor Moves to Rein in Groundwater-Guzzling Saudi Megafarms

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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has taken a major step to stabilize water use in the state’s rural desert, where a Saudi-owned company established a massive farming operation more than a decade ago. During her State of the State Address earlier this month, Hobbs announced she was placing the Saudi alfalfa farm within an “active management […]

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RFK Jr.’s Proteinaceous Food Pyramid Is a Land Hog and a Climate Disaster

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines urging Americans to eat far more meat and dairy products will, if followed, come at a major cost to the planet via huge swathes of habitat razed for farmland and millions of tons of extra planet-heating emissions. A new […]

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Trump’s USDA Is Hiding the Data on Food Stamp Cuts

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On December 1, under President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—which more than 40 million Americans rely on—introduced new work requirements for people verging on retirement age. Millions of adults ages of 55 to 64 may now be locked out of the program if they’re not able to work—and in […]

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

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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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The Case Against Thanksgiving Turkey

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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

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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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