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Written by: Kimberly White
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Written by: Martín Bonzi and Sarah Spengeman
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Written by: David R. Boyd
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With drought a persistent problem in the Southwest, Hopi/Tewa seed keeper Valerie Nuvayestewa has eagerly joined the effort to bring back an Indigenous superfood that her ancestors cultivated for 11,000 years. The Four Corners Potato...
Written by: Max Graham
When Eva Dawn Burk first saw Calypso Farm and Ecology Center in 2019, she felt enchanted. Calypso is an educational farm tucked away in a boreal forest in Ester, Alaska, near Fairbanks. To Burk, it looked...
Written by: Sacha Mooney, Hannah Victoria Cooper, and Sofie Sjogersten
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Written by: Cornell Alliance for Science
In a bid to help one of the world’s most important cereal crops survive hotter, drier conditions, the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) has awarded a $5 million grant to the International Maize and...
Written by: Kimberly White
In a world-first, this hospital has gone 100 percent vegan. Located in Beirut, Lebanon, Hayek Hospital has pledged to serve an exclusively plant-based menu to its patients.
Hayek Hospital took to social media to announce that it...
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