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Agriculture companies are increasingly paying farmers to capture carbon. But some say the newly budding carbon marketplace isn’t enough to fight climate change.
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Curt Meine will visit Illinois State University on Thursday to deliver a lecture on conservation in a time of rapid social and environmental change.
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Today on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff explores how a diverse tallgrass prairie was transformed into a landscape now dominated by monoculture crops. How did a biodiverse prairie that excelled at storing carbon turn into farmland that contributes to climate change?
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The American Lung Association's annual State of the Air report has produced mixed results for Peoria and Bloomington-Normal.
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Organic food growers have seen a boost in demand since the pandemic began. There's also demand for more people to farm the land.But as more farmers get…
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State Farm said Tuesday it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, with plans to lean more on renewable energy, cut down on paper and fleet…
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When there is a large concentration of birds, disease tends to spread. This winter was an exceptional winter for finches coming down to central Illinois…
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Raging California wildfires on one coast and the most active Atlantic hurricane season in history on the other are just two examples of how our climate is…
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Last spring students at Illinois State University led a crowd of least 250 in a march through Uptown Normal to demand governments take action to fight…
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A documentary film about an organic vegetable farmer in Woodford County is now available to a much wider audience."Seasons of Change on Henry's Farm"…