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Cow being divided into two with grain overlay and methane fumes May 2022.
Is California giving its methane digesters too much credit?

05.19.2022
by Jessica Fu
A coho salmon is weatherized on paper while green imagery is plastered over May 2022.
Your car is killing coho salmon
A coho salmon is weatherized on paper while green imagery is plastered over May 2022.
05.17.2022
by Lena Beck
A solar panel range is seen in what was once a field used for agriculture, in California's drought-stricken Central Valley near Huron, California, on July 23, 2021.
More regenerative farming may be a climate solution. But another climate solution is impeding its progress
A solar panel range is seen in what was once a field used for agriculture, in California's drought-stricken Central Valley near Huron, California, on July 23, 2021.
04.27.2022
by Lela Nargi
A gray and black map with brown cattle and yellow birds in yellow boxes with bar overlays April 2022.
The campaign for “bird-friendly beef”
A gray and black map with brown cattle and yellow birds in yellow boxes with bar overlays April 2022.
04.11.2022
by Lynne Curry
Telltale bathtub rings on Bartlett Lake, with trees above sand and water April 2022.
Arizona’s future water shock
Telltale bathtub rings on Bartlett Lake, with trees above sand and water April 2022.
04.07.2022
by Keith Schneider
Unsafe yield: Severe drought, dead wells, political division are pushing Arizona steadily closer to water supply peril
03.24.2022
by Keith Schneider
Aerial shot of well kept green golf courses in arizona next to developments March 2022
At peak of its wealth and influence, Arizona’s desert civilization confronts a reckoning over water
Aerial shot of well kept green golf courses in arizona next to developments March 2022
03.15.2022
by Keith Schneider
A cow grazes on the land in the Bears Ears National Monument on May 12, 2017 outside Blanding, Utah.
There are millions of acres of ‘failing’ rangelands, data shows
A cow grazes on the land in the Bears Ears National Monument on May 12, 2017 outside Blanding, Utah.
03.14.2022
by Kylie Mohr / High Country News
Fred Meyer in Greenwood, sell seeds and food-bearing plants on packed shelves with green plants in the background March 2022.
For some families, gardening starts with SNAP benefits
Fred Meyer in Greenwood, sell seeds and food-bearing plants on packed shelves with green plants in the background March 2022.
03.10.2022
by Hannah Weinberger/Crosscut
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