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Vertical farms, indoor crops a growing trend as climate change drives advances in protected farming

Australia's rich food bowl regions keep the nation fed but a year of storms and floods has repeatedly put them to the test and ad...

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The Alpine villages producing their own power

The Furtalm, an idyllic mountain farm in South Tyrol in the northern Italian Alps, is surrounded by waterfalls. Their rushing soun...

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The largest dam demolition in history is approved for a Western river

U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habi...

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One man’s lonely quest to save the world’s corals draws a following

Twice daily, he went out to sea, staying underwater for as long as his oxygen supply allowed. He learned the shapes and textures o...

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Renewal: New Mexico tribe deploys ancient practices against drought

In a northern New Mexican town, drought is forcing changes to water and crop management. The local Indigenous community, which has...

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This Ancient Grain-Sowing Method Could Be Farming’s Future

The traditional practice of mixing crops was nearly wiped out by industrial agriculture, but maslins are poised for a comeback....

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Athletes are speaking up against fossil fuel sponsorship. Why now?

In the last week, Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins, the Fremantle Dockers AFL club and the Diamonds netball team have all ma...

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Capricorn Coast kids fight for marine conservation with inaugural Turtle Hour

A trip to the idyllic Wop-pa/Great Keppel Island sparked 12-year-old Noah Belot's keen interest in conservation and, in particula...

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The aspiring ‘coral factory’ restoring reefs wrecked by climate change

Coral Vita, a for-profit company, aims to grow corals up to 50 times faster than in nature, improve their resilience to climate ch...

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How Rock Climbers and Snowboarders Became a Political Force

Jeremy Jones, an extreme snowboarder, filmmaker and owner of his own clothing brand, never dreamed of becoming a lobbyist. More co...

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The people resurrecting India’s ancient fruit trees

It can take an entire village to grow a new-age garden. That’s what 42-year-old Shyju Machathi, a policeman living in Kannapuram...

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Queensland Ocean Crusader volunteers fight a losing battle in ‘phenomenal’ flood debris clean up

Seven months on from February's flood disaster, conservation group Ocean Crusaders is still cleaning up tonnes of debris from sout...

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