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Studies: Beef: America’s dinner and a juicy climate controversy
This article discusses the impact the beef industry is having on climate change.
Beef is an American food icon. It’s also the biggest culinary culprit when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions.
Why it matters: California startups are increasingly targeting carnivores with plant burgers so beef-like they bleed, as […]
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Study: Your Food Choices Can Have a Big Climate Impact, So Be Picky
This article discusses how the food you eat impacts climate change. A sweeping study of the food chain, from farm to table, singles out choices that can cut greenhouse gas emissions. The biggest impact: switch to a plant-based diet.
One bowl of rice can have six times the climate […]
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Meat and fish multinationals ‘jeopardising Paris climate goals’
This article discusses how many of the world’s largest protein producers failing to measure or report emissions, despite accounting for 14.5% of greenhouse gases.
Meat and fish companies may be “putting the implementation of the Paris agreement in jeopardy” by failing to properly report their climate emissions, according to
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Farmers unable to cope with shocks induced by climate change
This article discusses the impact on farmers from global warming.
LAHORE: Ijaz Ahmed Rao has just finished sowing cotton on his 60 acres in Bahawalnagar. He is now worried that an unusual heatwave, which has gripped the country for several days, may have devastating effect on his crop.
“If the present […]
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Study: Enel, NREL partner on three-year solar vegetation study
This article discusses a 3-year study getting underway to look at how farming and solar energy farms can co-exist.
By doing the research, the partners hope to discover how solar and plant life interact and find effective ways for solar arrays and agricultural lands to co-exist.
It’s long been […]
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Studies: Climate Change & the West Coast
This article discusses how bad climate change will hit the West Coast.
California’s exposure to climate change has been laid bare with warnings that San Francisco faces a far worse threat from rising seas than previously thought, while the agricultural heart of the state will increasingly struggle to […]
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Snowpack Has Drastically Declined In The West This Century
This article talks about how the average amount of snowpack in the Western US has declined this century. That means serious problems as the melted snow is used for drinking and farming.
There’s a lot less snow in the western U.S. than there was a century ago. That’s according to
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Widespread Drought Across US Stoking Fears That 2012’s Devastation Will Repeat
The 2012 drought was exceptionally difficult, and 2018 may be a repeat of that disaster. This article discusses that problem, and how it will impact farming and food production.
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How A Skeptical Rancher, Turned Climate Friendly
This article talks about how a rancher, a climate change denier, changed his mind. It took a grant.
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Climate Change Is Forcing Norway to Drop Millions on Its Doomsday Seed Vault
This article discusses the efforts of the Norway Government to protect the seed vault located in their country.
The Arctic facility , the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, stores over one million crop seeds. But, to keep the vault running, and to protect it from the effects of climate change, the […]
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