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Extreme heat pushes more farmworkers to harvest at night, creating new risks
Working in the dark may help agricultural workers keep cool, but safety advocates worry the trend could also be causing more accidents and compromising worker health.
How shrinking corn could help farmers—and the environment
Plants bred or engineered to be shorter resist windstorms and may bring higher yields and reduce pesticide use.
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Extreme heat drives farmers to go nocturnal
Meet the ‘Night Farmer.’ While you’re asleep, he’s picking award-winning fruits and vegetables by the light of a headlamp.
Photo by Elena Kloppenburg on Unsplash
Tribes celebrate yucca harvest as climate change, encroachment threaten sacred tradition
Official protection could help the chaparral yucca thrive, tribe leaders say. But public education is also needed.
Photo by Kaja Reichardt on Unsplash
French and Italian farmers turn to fires and fans to protect harvests from spring frosts
Europe’s farmers have endured sweltering heatwaves and droughts in recent years. But many producers also face an altogether different problem - sharp spring frosts that decimate harvests.
Climate change takes toll on traditional Ojibwe wild rice harvest
Extreme weather events, including droughts and heavy rain, are making it more difficult to carry out wild rice harvests in the Upper Midwest.
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Western Arctic Caribou Herd shrank more in 2022, hurting Northwest Arctic subsistence hunters
Biologists struggle to single out a leading cause of the caribou population’s decline. “It’s going to be another rough winter again this year without caribou,” Selawik resident Norma Ballot said.
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