Source: modernfarmer.com Published: November 21, 2016 Stephanie Watson at Flickr Dan Nosowitz Coffee is almost exclusively grown in very hot climates – the top producing countries are in South America, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. Coffee needs those warm...
Source: ecology.com Published: April 12, 2016 According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), just twelve crops provide 75 percent of the world’s food. Three of these crops, rice, maize, and wheat contribute to nearly 60 percent of the protein and...
Source: globalforestatlas.yale.edu Published: March 28, 2017 In places where forests have been lost or degraded, restoration or reforestation projects may be undertaken in order to guarantee or accelerate the recovery of forests. Objectives of forest restoration can...
Source: phys.org Published: January 28, 2016 Credit: SC Department of Agriculture by University of Cambridge Agricultural expansion is a leading cause of wild species loss and greenhouse gas emissions. However, as farming practices and technologies continue to be...
Source: e360.yale.edu Published: February 13, 2017 Giant sequoias in Sequoia National Park. Tuxyso/Wikimedia By Janet Marinelli In California’s Sierras and around the world, extreme drought and rising temperatures are killing trees and threatening the viability of...
Source: theguardian.com Published: March 20, 2003 Keith Laidler Bambo is one of the most successful plants on earth. With more than 1,500 species colonising a multitude of habitats from sea level to 12,000 feet, bamboo is a phenomenon of the vegetable kingdom. It can...
Source: global.nature.org Published: February 17, 2016 By Justin Adams, Executive Director, Tropical Forest Alliance (Currently seconded to the TFA from The Nature Conservancy) Click here to watch “Natural Climate Solutions”: https://youtu.be/nU0yNgHHH1g Natural...
Source: slate.com Published: September 5, 2013 Some rights reserved by clauretan By Atlas Obscura With dreams of colonizing Mars, John P. Allen, who made his millions in oil, funded the building of Biosphere 2 in the middle of the Arizona desert. (Planet earth is...
Source: bangordailynews.com Published: May 1, 2016 By Julia Bayly WALDOBORO, Maine — When researchers in Scotland needed seeds to grow Bere, a very old barley variety once cultivated for thousands of years in highlands, they looked across the Atlantic to a midcoast...
Source: happycow.net Published: July 20, 2015 “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”— John Muir – image Click here to watch “How Wolves Change Rivers”: https://youtu.be/ysa5OBhXz-Q When wolves were...
