A thorough article on *some* important downsides of capturing methane from animal operations. But they left out the water pollution problem: these facilities do nothing to address eutrophication from excess nitrogen & phosphorous.

Must-read. “In the United States, most farmers are businesspeople and their behavior is best understood in that context, because it turns out that, taken as a group, they tend to behave much like you would expect businesspeople to behave.”

"In the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami, a simple doll became a powerful symbol of healing in coastal India and beyond."

These days, it’s almost impossible to imagine the nation’s political leaders mounting a frontal assault on businesses. To curb the power of Big Beef, instead of wielding a cleaver, the Biden administration is counting on people like Chad _...Read More_

"Concerns about microplastics are not new. They’ve been growing for more than a decade."

"The opening of a park in the Veretyevo Art Manor near Moscow was among the most remarkable Russian architectural events in 2021. The new space near Dubna was designed by architect Alexander Brodsky. Strelka Mag asked Asya Zolnikova to walk _...Read More_

"World-building is often thought to be the domain of science fiction, but any work of fiction, or even nonfiction, requires it. You have to build the _...Read More_

"Silk fibroin is an ‘ideal candidate’ to preserve crop freshness, minimise food loss, and ensure food safety"

Humans started settled cultivation around 9,000 BC. Then onwards, the pre-historic people developed their farming according to seasons and specific crops. In the Indian subcontinent, two monsoons blessed the flora, thousands of fruits and _...Read More_

"The United States aims to double the country's cover crop plantings to 30 million acres by 2030 under a new Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation program launched on Monday."

New research shows how we can reduce global emissions via food choices in high income countries. This demonstrates large mitigation potential of better food policies without dictating to developing lower-income countries or "telling others _...Read More_

>"Earth experienced its sixth warmest year on record in 2021, continuing a trend where each of the past four decades has ranked hotter than the one before it."

>"This article was originally published by Yale Environment 360. Read the original story here. Last February, the Toyota Motor Company broke ground on what it calls Woven City, a built-from-scratch futuristic urban center on 175 acres in _...Read More_

>"Many of the world’s biggest banks, financial institutions and companies are not doing enough to stop deforestation, and in many cases are continuing to bankroll forest destruction, undermining efforts to stop a major driver of global _...Read More_

>"This field is so new that just a few years ago there was only one published study on this subject. And it came from a high school science fair project."