A comprehensive new federal roadmap for climate action on farms
Representative Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) introduced legislation that would set a national goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions from the U.S. agriculture sector by 2040. The Agriculture Resilience Act also introduces sweeping changes to…
Read More...About 40 million people get water from the Colorado River. Studies show it’s drying up.
Scientists have documented how climate change is sapping the Colorado River, and new research shows the river is so sensitive to warming that it could lose about one-fourth of its…
Read More...Washington lawmakers want to fund solutions for healthier soil and less gassy cows
Bipartisan proposals before the Washington Legislature would help scientists learn about storing carbon in agricultural soils and invest in GPS-guided tractors and climate-friendly cattle feed.
Read More...As groundwater depletes, arid American West is moving east
Even under modest climate warming scenarios, the continental United States faces a significant loss of groundwater—about 119 million cubic meters, or roughly enough to fill Lake Powell four times, a…
Read More...Development of soil enrichment project protocol
The Climate Action Reserve is developing a Soil Enrichment Project Protocol that will provide guidance on how to quantify, monitor, report and verify agricultural practices that enhance carbon storage in…
Read More...Emails show administration manipulated wildfire science to promote logging
Political appointees at the Department of the Interior have sought to play up climate pollution from California wildfires while downplaying emissions from fossil fuels as a way of promoting more logging in…
Read More...Working group to develop protocol for storing carbon
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has initiated a working group, which includes WLA, to develop a United States protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon in…
Read More...Ecosystem services market consortium to start selling carbon credits
The Ecosystem Services Market Consortium, founded by some of the nation’s largest agribusinesses, will begin selling carbon credits in January or February, said the organization’s executive director, Debbie Reed.
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