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As hearings on the 2023 Farm Bill begin, a push is on to ensure biodiversity is part of the conversation. A Senate hearing on the bills conservation and forestry programs was held on Wednesday. According to Defenders of Wildlife, more than 70% of species listed under the Endangered Species Act rely on private lands, and more than 40 % of private land in the lower 48 states is managed for agriculture. ...

To hear Emil King tell it, the benefits of the 8,000-odd solar panels shimmering before him on an industrial lot in Washington DC go far beyond helping the US capital city fight climate change. The city-administered solar park was built on polluted land that had become an eyesore, and the power it produces has been used to halve the

By Carey L. Biron for Context.Broadcast version by Brett Peveto for Maryland News Connection reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration The owner of Deep Roots Farm in rural Maryland and her workers finished the fall harvest last month, but some of their most vital plantings are still in the ground - and growing fast. Four species of cover crops - plants such as winter rye and hairy vetch, later removed in the spring - are key to soil resuscitation efforts ...

The Elwha River watershed on the Olympic peninsula has been transformed since dam removal a decade ago, but logging could harm the the habitats progress. Washingtonians are rallying on Sunday to protect nearby forests. The Elwha River dam removal has been the largest in U-S history to date. ...

"The stated purpose is to keep students safe, and here we have set up a system that is routinizing law enforcement access to this information and finding reasons for them to go into students' homes," Laird said. 'PREYED UPON' A report by federal lawmakers last year into four companies making student monitoring software found that none had made efforts to see if the programs disproportionately targeted marginalized students. "Students should not be surveilled on the s...

The goal is to help guide Hawaii's environmental policy by accounting for the value of nature – work that will allow policymakers and the public to see the measurable effects of nature protection and climate change, according to Oleson. The economist hopes the approach could eventually provide a model for other states.

Through an American Forest Foundation program, private landowners can exchange carbon-reducing credits from their land for cash.

Gunshot-detection systems spark debate, with opponents saying the technology is ineffective and over polices communities of color

Carey L. Biron - When Black land rights activists were offered a 60-hectare plot in the US South, they saw it as an opportunity towards righting a historical wrong.Black Americans...

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