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The EDF’s habitat exchange program will match those with room to grow milkweed with those who need to make habitat amends.
The monarch butterflies have...
Show your love with earth-friendly flowers
By Brittany Wienke, Rainforest Alliance
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Former mailman builds geothermal greenhouse in the midwest; gets local citrus all year for...
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World’s remotest inhabited island is looking to hire a farmer
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This might be the coolest photo of a farm you'll ever see
When Brazilian farmer Ernst Gotsch bought 1,200 acres of completely deforested land on the edge of the rainforest in 1984, it was known as...
This might be the coolest photo of a farm you'll ever see
When Brazilian farmer Ernst Gotsch bought 1,200 acres of completely deforested land on the edge of the rainforest in 1984, it was known as...
First-ever national wild bee map reveals farmland at risk
The new study finds that if losses of wild bees continue, United States crop production could be destabilized.
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Carbon farming: another low-tech climate solution
Protecting forests is a low-tech way to store carbon that has earned a lot of attention in the efforts to fight global warming. Now,...
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