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Prince Charles (now King Charles III) visits Shane Fitzgerald’s Kil Mige Mogue farm near Waterford in southeast Ireland on March 24, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Phil Noble/Pool)
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What will King Charles’s reign mean for climate action?

Some projects may be handed to other family members

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London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — As Britain’s King Charles III begins his reign after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, environmental campaigners will be watching closely to see if he continues to advocate for climate action and is able to help drive change as monarch. In his first speech to the nation
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
Other, Weather, Weather Vane

How has a warming climate impacted Manitoba?

Let’s see if my 15-year-old predictions for our province panned out

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Every so often I like to look back at some of the articles I’ve written over the years. While doing this, I came across an article from 2007 that was my attempt to answer the question of how climate change will impact the weather across agricultural Manitoba over the next 10 to 20 years. I
Internally displaced Ethiopians queue to receive food aid in the Higlo camp for people displaced by drought, at the town of Gode in Ethiopia’s Somali region on April 26, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)
Crops, Other, Weather

Acute food insecurity now touching 345 million worldwide

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Baghdad | Reuters — The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Before the coronavirus crisis, 135 million suffered from acute hunger worldwide, Corinne Fleischer, the WFP’s regional
For many crops, our farmers’ ability to grow anything will be severely compromised, unless they use more land.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Farming is losing to urban politics

Not tying fertilizer use to productivity is a dangerous failure of federal policy

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Most Canadians have never been on a farm, let alone lived on one, which makes more than 98 per cent of our population agriculturally illiterate. For many Canadians, crop production is an unknown concept. Because of this, it’s relatively easy to use fear to influence public opinion on any food-related issue involving agriculture. Activists know
“Our position is that ESN does reduce nitrous oxide emissions during our short-season, dryland prairie conditions.” – Curtis Rempel.
News

ESN off the table for climate fund incentives

Canola Council of Canada wants AAFC to revisit the change

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The Canola Council of Canada says ESN has been scratched from the list of incentives being offered to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer in the federal government’s On-Farm Climate Change Action Fund (OFCAF). The fund was launched in February by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) to help farmers adopt and implement immediate on-farm beneficial management practices that
Comment: Forty billion green reasons to go green
Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Forty billion green reasons to go green

If the U.S. budget passes, green ag is about to get a big boost

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If American farmers and ranchers really want to live the oft-repeated boast that they are “the first environmentalists,” then, by golly, Joe Manchin and his Democratic Senate colleagues have the legislative vehicle to prove it. Manchin, the chief monkeywrencher of Dem dreams for the last two years, shocked everyone when he and Senate Majority Leader
Ultimately for a farm business it will be a balancing act between costs and achieving emission reduction goals.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Will New Zealand farmers long for the ‘fart tax?’

A New Zealand proposal to reduce agriculture emissions involves a lot of trust – and a lot of uncertainty

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After decades of avoiding inclusion in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), New Zealand’s primary production sector has begrudgingly acknowledged that reducing on-farm emissions of greenhouse gases is an imperative. Charged by the government with developing a pricing mechanism and strategy as an acceptable alternative to joining the ETS in 2025 under the Climate Change Response
Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil on Aug. 14, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

Market value alone is selling nature short, governments told

Economic valuations needed but 'not sufficient,' co-chair says

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Reuters — What is the value of a river? Is it for the nutritional content of the fish it sustains? The economic benefit of the local livelihoods it supports? Or does the river have its own value which humans cannot measure? Such questions may seem removed from the issues the world faces, from deepening climate
“The Iberian peninsula is an increasingly dry area and our rivers’ flow is slower and slower.” – Pedro Sanchez, Spanish Prime Minister.
News, Other, Weather

Western European heat wave stokes climate change fears

Dry rivers, stunted agriculture output fears stalk much of the region

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Reuters – Spain was headed for its hottest early-summer temperatures in four decades on June 17, one area of France banned outdoor events, and drought stalked Italian farmers as a heat wave sent Europeans hunting for shade and fretting over climate change. Such was the heat that England’s upscale Royal Ascot Racecourse even saw a

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