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March 16, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmLandmark offshore wind farms come online in the U.S.Revolution Wind and Vineyard Wind are two of several…

In Europe, the diversity of plants was greatest in the years before the Black Death, at a time when small farms and pastures existed alongside grasslands…

Lebanon has accused Israel of spraying a herbicide linked to cancer on farmland in the south of the country as a “health crime” that would threaten…

Smaller farms will be prioritised for nature funding, the environment secretary is to announce, in a shake-up of post-EU nature subsidies.Emma Reynolds is expected to tell…

Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of pressure from campaigners and MPs representing rural areas.In a statement…

December 22, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmTrump Administration Targets Offshore Wind Farms, Citing National Security ConcernsThe U.S. Department of the Interior announced it…

Reporting Highlights Ending Exploitation: Experts say that the Fair Food Program has improved conditions for farmworkers — and, if widely adopted, could prevent exploitation and abuse…

Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed.Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming,…

Rodd Kelsey gazed out on the golden slopes of Point Reyes national seashore sweeping down to the rugged California coastline, pointing to the patches laden with…

When the Yucatan was declared free of swine fever 20 years ago, the Mexican company Kekén, which is now that nation’s largest pork exporter, began building…