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As a soil conservationist and my father’s caregiver, I dream about an alternative to the monoculture economies that poison our lands and our bodies.

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The agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, says he wants to “get out of the way” and stop “gumming up the works” so that fast-track construction of the massive computing facilities will “make America the...

The federal shutdown will affect people across the United States. NPR's network of member stations explains what will be impacted and where.

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Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

Pipeline opponents say that approving NESE could bite Hochul in next year’s elections.

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Climeworks’ 105-ton year shows why sucking carbon from the sky was always physics fiction, not climate strategy.

Marine plastic pollution is a growing problem threatening ocean ecosystems. Now research explores how these plastics may be impacting the ocean’s ability to offset anthropogenic carbon emissions.

Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

Fred Kirschnmann died over the weekend after a long illness, a great loss. He described himself as a farmer-philosopher, and so he was. I first met him in the early 2000s when I went to Iowa State to give a lecture.  The Dean of Agriculture, Cathy Wokeki, said I had to meet him.  He was then directing the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State, which promoted organic, sustainable, regenerative farming methods right smack in the epicenter of U.S.