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Study finds California kids living in agricultural areas have a hard time breathing.
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Bill Mollison, co-originator of permaculture, dies
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How dogs could save the avocado industry
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Desperate farmers are selling pigs on Craigslist
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Industrial-scale aquaponics is coming of age
There was a time when TreeHugger was peppered with posts about aquaponics—the process of raising fish and growing produce in a mutually symbiotic relationship...
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...
American meat will never be welcome in the UK
The environment minister stated that post-Brexit trade deals will not allow chlorine-washed chicken or hormone-treated beef.
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