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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.

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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.

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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.

french farming spring frost climate impacts

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.

Ojibwe wild rice harvest climate

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 shrinking
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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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