Articles by Sr. Staff Writer Nathanael Johnson
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Tourists are desperate to return to national forests … just in time for wildfire season
Dry conditions have put public lands in uncharted territory this summer.
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![A farmer carries rice seedlings to be planted in a paddy field at a village in Nagaon district of India's northeastern state of Assam, on July 3, 2021.]()
![A farmer carries rice seedlings to be planted in a paddy field at a village in Nagaon district of India's northeastern state of Assam, on July 3, 2021.]()
Scientists have long warned climate change threatens our food security. Now they’re finding solutions.
We've barely scratched the surface on the potential of plants.
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![Illustration: farmland with a barn and silos, corn, and a coal factory in the distance]()
The US is about to go all-in on paying farmers and foresters to trap carbon
The problem is, it’s unclear if “carbon offsets” even work.
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California just committed itself to “an unprecedented amount” of clean energy
The state sees renewables as the best way to prevent blackouts.
