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The United States owes billions of dollars in climate funding to developing countries. But the war in Ukraine is delaying payments and slowing down U.S. progress to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and that has leaders in low-lying and less wealthy nations feeling frustrated and forgotten.
Forecasters say the West could be looking at a particularly bad wildfire year, as several destructive fires have already ignited well before the hottest, driest months.
Polls show most traditional farmers don’t believe they contribute to climate change. Two farmers in Illinois started a soil protection program that has myriad climate benefits.
Freshwater scarcity is a fact of life for people across much of the planet with agricultural production severely affected as irrigation at croplands already accounts for 70% of water use globally.
One variety of red spruce, especially chosen for its origins in the mountains of West Virginia, will become a test of what scientists call “assisted migration,” introducing populations from warmer areas to northern latitudes projected to become hotter and drier in a changing climate.
The state’s ongoing drought and breakneck human development have pinched food resources and shrunken natural habitats, steepening animals’ odds of survival.
By Shahla Farzan | West Alton, MO | North Central Region
05/16/22
Sarah Peper was getting ready for church last month when she got an unexpected phone call from a colleague, alerting her of a rare event: lake sturgeon were spawning along the banks of the Mississippi River near St. Louis.
The latest announcement from the U.S. Department of the Interior details nearly $69 million for 125 environmental remediation projects across 20 states, tribes and territories.
Every five years, Congress’s $1 trillion Farm Bill funds the agricultural industry. A coalition of farmers and companies are campaigning to get the bill to support regenerative farming—and prioritize family farmers over large-scale agribusiness.
Tennessee State University has won a $1.9 million grant for its College of Agriculture to lead a group of historically Black schools in research around sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation.
By Emily Unglesbee | Rockville, MD | Northeast Region
05/18/22
The future of pesticide labels is undergoing active construction at EPA, and farmers, pesticide applicators and other ag stakeholders may have an opportunity to influence that work.
By Emerson Nafziger | Illinois | North Central Region
05/18/22
Soils in many areas have worked up well this spring, and surface soils have relatively small particle (aggregate) size. This wasn’t due to extra tillage, but may have resulted from repeated cycles of freezing and thawing over the past six weeks or so.
