This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Regenerative agriculture practices like soil carbon sequestration is becoming a topic for farmers and politicians alike, but pesticides can damage soil biotic communities. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The CEO of one of the nation’s leading food and agriculture companies, Land O’Lakes, Chris Policinski, has an important message for us: “To move the planet forward, farmers must lead…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One day early last June, a group of journalists of color from newsrooms around the country gathered for the first time—on a Zoom call, naturally. The gathering marked the inaugural…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Catastrophic floods — such as those caused by Hurricane Harvey — are on the rise, especially in the East and Midwest. Climate change, which brings supercharged storms and sea-level rise as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s hard to remember, in the midst of a calamitous global pandemic, that people around the globe are healthier now than they were just a few decades ago. We’re smoking less,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The window of opportunity to harness nature’s own power to protect us from climate change is closing swiftly. As the Amazon burns, coral reefs die and polar ice caps melt,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Disagreements about how to tackle the climate crisis abound, but in 2020, it seemed much of the world finally reached consensus about at least one thing: getting to net-zero by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, the NFIP is effectively bankrupt. It owes the U.S. Treasury nearly $25 billion – money it borrowed from federal taxpayers to cover its obligations in Sandy, Katrina (2005), and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This month marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement – the commitment by almost every country to try to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius. It’s…
Over the course of producing three seasons of The Response podcast, we’ve explored how natural hazards and other disruptions disproportionately impact marginalized communities at length. But one population we haven’t discussed before…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. World hunger rose for a third consecutive year in 2017, according to the United Nations’ annual food security report. The total number of people who face chronic food deprivation has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On a warm, sunny afternoon in late November, Roger Cornwell stopped his pickup near the edge of a harvested rice field to avoid spooking a great blue heron standing still…