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Peatlands make up just 3% of Earth's land surface but store more than 30% of the world's soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study sounds the alarm that an extreme drought event could quadruple peatland carbon loss in a warming climate. In the study, published in Science, researchers find that, under conditions that mimic a future climate (with warmer temperatures and elevated carbon dioxide), extreme drought dramatically increases the release of carbon in peatlands by nearly three times. This means that droughts in future climate conditions could turn a valuable carbon sink into a carbon source, erasing between 90 and 250 years of carbon stores in a matter of months.

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Carleigh Bodrug, a cookbook author who emphasizes cooking with plants and low-waste recipes, said she was surprised to learn that homes, rather than restaurants and grocery stores, account for the largest share of food that goes in the garbage — about 35% in 2023, according to ReFed, a nonprofit that seeks to reduce food waste.

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Goodall embodied this shift through an activism that went beyond the reactivity and division defining modern activism, revealing that the deepest transformation begins with how we relate to one another and to life itself. This way of relating returns us to the deeper nature of reality we live in: the interdependent world that makes our very existence possible.

ODANAH, Wis. — I’m speeding along the Bad River in a flat-bottomed boat, wind whipping around us. Next to me sits Robert Blanchard, the 70-year-old tribal chairman and chief executive of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, a people also known as the Ojibwe.

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Rather than concentrate on those risks, Perryman said, the focus today is more often on how beavers can help, which can be rife with unrealistic expectations. That view has made her skeptical of California’s translocation efforts.

Family farmers are facing acute financial stress, compounded by tariffs, rising input costs, and limited bargaining power in a globalized market. Without intervention, land is at risk of consolidation by corporate agribusiness and investment funds. This would turn independent farmers into tenants or laborers on land their families once owned. We propose a national, nonpartisan solidarity initiative to protect American farmland, combining community fundraising, land trusts, and partnerships across ideological lines. This initiative would transcend partisan divides and focus on preserving land, livelihoods, and the cultural fabric of America.

On Sept. 10, more than 50 citizen lobbyists representing a consortium of 15 national nonprofits and organizations gathered on Capitol Hill for the first My Health Alliance Lobby Day, organized by the Organic & Natural Health Association (Organic & Natural Health).

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