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NOAA report on ‘new normals’ in climate over past decade shows a hotter US, thanks to climate change.
Agriculture
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Wait times for crop payments and exchange-rate roulette can wreak havoc on tobacco farmers’ profits.
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Meeting will mark the second in-person summit with a foreign leader from Asia highlighting Biden’s focus on the region.
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Farmers and schoolchildren in Australia and New Zealand join global movement to improve health of world beneath our feet
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Saudi Arabia’s agricultural product ban comes after finding millions of illegal pills hidden in pomegranates.
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Prices of essential crops including wheat, corn and soybeans are surging to the highest since 2013.
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Thousands of farmers are undeterred and continue their protests outside New Delhi despite a record surge in infections.
Explore what is being done in the Ibera National Park to protect nature, restore the ecology and increase biodiversity.
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A water shortage could feed tensions between farmers, conservationists and tribes along the California-Oregon border.
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Start of the apple season hampered by unabated mining of rivers, hitting thousands of farmers as officials admit lapses.
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Migratory locusts across several provinces threaten billions of dollars worth of food at a critical time for Iran.
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Farmers squat on railway tracks and roads across India to mark months of protests against new farm laws.
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The funds will be used for infrastructure, tourism, agriculture and other ‘strategic sectors’, UAE’s state news said.
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US state made COVID-19 vaccines available to agricultural workers, who face heightened risks of contracting the virus.