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FILE PHOTO: A drone view of smoke from burning vegetation rising in a rainforest at the municipality of Bonfim, state of Roraima, Brazil February 28, 2024. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly/File Photo
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Brazil launches platform to attract foreign investment for climate and ecological projects

Brazil launched a $10.8B platform at IMF meetings to fund green projects, targeting energy, industry, and nature solutions.

A herd of sheep at Acciona's High Point Solar Farm in northern Illinois. Credit: Acciona
AgricultureElectricityNewsSolar

How a solar development turned from threat to opportunity for an Illinois farmer

When farmer Trent Gerlach found out a solar farm would be built on the land he had long worked in northwestern Illinois, he...

FILE PHOTO: A soybean delivery is sampled during harvest season at Deerfield AG Services grain elevator facility in Massillon, Ohio, U.S., October 7, 2021. Picture taken October 7, 2021. REUTERS/Dane Rhys/File Photo
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Speedy US corn and soy harvests strain farmers, storage capacity

U.S. farmers are harvesting record corn and soybean crops at a rapid pace, straining storage capacity and facing low prices.

FILE PHOTO: A general view of a palm oil plantation in Siak regency, Riau province, Indonesia, April 26, 2022. Picture taken with a drone on April 26, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo
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Indonesia, Malaysia, EU work on guide for smallholders on EU deforestation rules

Indonesia, Malaysia, and the EU will create a practical deforestation guide for smallholders by November.

FILE PHOTO: Aerial photo shows farmers planting corn in the Kunjang rice fields, Kediri, East Java province, Indonesia, April 10, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Muhammad Mada/via REUTERS /File Photo
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Indonesia’s Prabowo to expand farmland by 3 million hectares for self-sufficiency

Indonesia's incoming president, Prabowo Subianto, vows to achieve food self-sufficiency in four years.

P. Ravinder Reddy, a farmer, applies fungicide to peanut seeds before sowing in Rayanpet village of Telangana state, India, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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In India, warming climate pressures scientists to keep developing tougher seeds

Unpredictable rains and heat in Rayanpet, India, threaten rice crops, prompting farmers to adopt climate-resilient seed varieties

HopfON entrepreneur, Mauricio Fleischer Acuna poses in Munich, Germany, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. The startup is using the organic waste, some from the hops harvest, to make sustainable building materials like acoustic panels and thermal insulation, with the twofold goal of reducing waste from the construction industry. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
AgricultureBiofuelsClimateNews

Harvesting hops for beer produces a lot of waste. These German groups are seeking to fix that

Two Munich students turn hops waste into sustainable building materials, reducing waste from beer and construction.

Grape-pickers harvests Chardonnay grapes at Domaine Lavantureux vineyards, in Chablis, Burgundy region, France, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
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Climate change and harsh weather in France bring challenges to Chablis wine country

Grape-pickers harvests Chardonnay grapes at Domaine Lavantureux vineyards

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Climate Asset Management has raised more than $1bn, CEO says

Climate Asset Management has raised more than $1 billion to invest in natural capital projects such as regenerative agriculture.

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