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Causes
After years of pushing for prairie strips, this ecologist won a MacArthur 'Genius' grant
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After years of pushing for prairie strips, this ecologist won a MacArthur 'Genius' grant

Lisa Schulte Moore used to have to explain the benefits of her work to farmers in the Corn Belt. Now, over half of farmers in Iowa are willing to plant prairie strips next to cropland to improve soil health and water quality and mitigate climate change.
Politics
Farmers have long memories: Trump's climate record could hurt him in Iowa
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Farmers have long memories: Trump's climate record could hurt him in Iowa

In rural Iowa, farmers bearing the brunt of climate change may play an outsize role in electing the next president.
Solutions
Most farmers in the Great Plains don't grow fruits and vegetables. The pandemic is changing that
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Most farmers in the Great Plains don't grow fruits and vegetables. The pandemic is changing that

Amid massive tracts of wheat and corn destined for global markets, some farmers are planting cover crop mixes designed to be harvested by their communities.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Opinion: Trump allies aim to take U.S. energy policy back in time

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Puerto Rico’s climate scientists lose federal support amid new Trump policies

Yellow bicycles beside black fence in Paris.

Paris tests public support for green streets by voting on car-free zones

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

CLIMATE
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Court ruling against Greenpeace sends warning to protest groups nationwide

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EPA dismantles decades of work on environmental justice