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The COP28 U.N. Climate Conference, to be hosted by the UAE, will commence at the end of a consequential year in terms of climate change and climate action. Summer 2023 was the hottest ever documented. And an unprecedented month of extreme and high temperatures in July saw the global average temperature record broken three times in a span of four days. Alongside this year’s extreme heat, various parts of the globe saw the outbreak of increasingly devastating wildfires and flooding events.

Climate change is having disparate effects on global water cycles, with floods in some regions and droughts in others. Besides phasing out fossil fuels, responding to this requires improved cooperation on water data.

Vast fields of corn line the roads near the village of Beecher. Over one hill, the landscape shifts, revealing plots studded with medicinal and industrial hemp plants.

The nation’s agriculture industry is pushing for better protections for crops and the people who grow them against a changing climate, like the unprecedented drought that hit Illinois this summer.

Vast fields of corn line the roads near the village of Beecher. Over one hill, the landscape shifts, revealing plots studded with medicinal and industrial hemp plants. First-generation farmers Rachael and Jesse Smedberg grow hemp on their 120-acre organic and regenerative farm, Tulip Tree Gardens. Five years ago, the couple decided to buy the farm near the Indiana border, and they have since ...

In the fertile Bekaa Plain, Lebanon's longest river has become an open garbage dump due to corruption and mismanagement. Animals are dying and people are falling ill. But despite the crisis, the situation is gradually improving.

“Furthermore, surplus electricity generated by these systems could serve other energy needs."

There’s a new crop insurance program, for a different kind of agriculture. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. The USDA is announcing a new

The USDA is announcing a new crop insurance program designed for agricultural producers using controlled envir...