Across the country, farmers are taking a chance on a new method: adding crushed volcanic rock to fields to improve soil health (and sequester carbon in the process). This story was originally published in Modern Farmer and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate … Continue reading To reverse a troubling trend, farmers are adding rocks to their fields
When Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement shortly into his first term, concerned states got together and vowed to fight for climate action. These same states awoke last November to a version of Groundhog Day, facing the same President with the same – if not more virulent – climate antipathy. Once again, they swore … Continue reading Can States Pick Up America’s Climate Tab?
On a banana plantation in rural Australia, a second-generation farming family spreads crushed volcanic rock between rows of ripening fruit. Eight thousand kilometers away, two young men in central India dust the same type of rock powder onto their dry-season rice paddy, while across the ocean, a farmer in Kenya sprinkles the powder by hand … Continue reading How powdered rock could help slow climate change
It’s morning and you wake on a comfortable foam mattress made partly from greenhouse gas. You pull on a T-shirt and sneakers containing carbon dioxide pulled from factory emissions. After a good run, you stop for a cup of joe and guiltlessly toss the plastic cup in the trash, confident it will fully biodegrade into … Continue reading How to make recyclable plastics out of CO2 to slow climate change