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Feeding 8 billion people has changed our planet. Here's why we can't keep doing it the same way
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Feeding 8 billion people has changed our planet. Here's why we can't keep doing it the same way

Human history is shaped by our ability to feed ourselves. See how population growth is tied to farmland, and how food production's profound environmental effect shows us the need for change.
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Opinion: Feeding big agribusiness, starving Africans

Industrial agriculture has failed to eliminate food insecurity in Africa. It is time for a radically different approach.
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Europe’s Green Revolution threatens Indigenous culture

The Sámi indigenous people have inhabited northern Sweden for thousands of years. Now their way of life is threatened by giant wind farms, mines rich in rare battery minerals and logging.
Impacts
Global food crisis looms as fertilizer supplies dwindle
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Global food crisis looms as fertilizer supplies dwindle

Sanctions on Russia, bad weather, and export cuts have fueled a severe fertilizer shortage that has farmers scrambling to keep the world fed. About the only farmers who are not complaining about fertilizers this season are the rising number of organic growers.

Causes
Dan Saladino: Why we need to revive global food diversity
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Dan Saladino: Why we need to revive global food diversity

The Green Revolution helped feed a surging global population, but at the cost of impoverishing crop diversity. Now, with climate change threatening food supplies, the need for greater agricultural resilience means restoring endangered crop and food varieties.

Politics
Helping to fuel a green revolution
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Helping to fuel a green revolution

A small town in Britain is experimenting with hydrogen to heat homes and fuel appliances in hopes of setting an example for the rest of the world.
Impacts
Kabir Agarwal: An ignored water crisis is at the center of the farmer protest in India

Kabir Agarwal: An ignored water crisis is at the center of the farmer protest in India

The chief reason for the perilous water crisis is the over-extraction of groundwater.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Coal stockpiles strain US power sector as demand wanes

Bogotá faces water rationing

Bogotá faces water rationing

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Wisconsin oil spill fuels doubts over Enbridge’s pipeline safety

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People advocating against the US hydrogen hub build out

Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

Donald Trump

Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

CLIMATE
wind turbines lined up in a green field

Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

Palm trees bending in the wind

Cyclone devastates Mayotte