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agriculture

a sliver of river reflecting the sunset surrounded by shadow

The Rio Grande in crisis

By Jim Robbins | Climate Change

Food giants can help put alternative meats on everyone’s table

By Emma Ignaszewski | Climate Change, Opinion

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Who hacked the slaughterhouse? When robots and AI take over farms

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

a cheeseburger with lettuce and tomato

Reinventing meat to stave off climate crisis—and the next pandemic

By Jessica McKenzie | Biosecurity, Climate Change

yellow protein powder

Would you eat bacteria to help reverse climate change?

By Andrew H. MacDougall | Climate Change

soybeans wilt in cracked earth below partly cloudy sky

Agricultural emissions are not on the menu at COP26

By Tom Philpott | Climate Change

cross made of grass

Faith, farmers, and climate action

By Brian J. Barth | Analysis, Climate Change

A hot, dark, hungry future?

By | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Lester Brown: Plowing the way in environmental research

By | Interviews

Self-assured destruction: The climate impacts of nuclear war

By Alan Robock, Owen Brian Toon | Nuclear Weapons