Agriculture

"If you're going to buy organic, strawberries, spinach, kale, nectarines and apples might be a good place to start."

"For Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone, the discovery in 2016 that his cows were producing tainted milk has since brought financial ruin and threatened to shut down a century-old family business. Now state regulators and health experts are investigating whether the contamination could reflect a much broader problem for farms that used similar methods to fertilize their land."

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"Faced with reservoirs less than half full along the Colorado River, federal authorities and negotiators for Colorado and six other Western states on Tuesday finalized a landmark plan to share the burden of voluntarily using less water as growing cities and warming temperatures deplete the supply for 40 million people."

"A jury in the first federal court trial of thousands of lawsuits by cancer victims against the manufacturer of the world’s most widely used herbicide found Tuesday that Monsanto’s Roundup was a likely cause of a Sonoma County man’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma."

"Beehives and their contents are a sensitive detector of lead emissions, a study of Canadian urban apiaries showed."

"Winter storms have covered the Rocky Mountains with snow from Wyoming to northern New Mexico, leaving a bounty of runoff that should boost the levels of the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs this spring and summer."

"Yak, reindeer and entire ways of life in the “Third Pole” and Scandinavia face new threats in a warming world."

"The Bureau of Land Management is offering people $1,000 if they’ll adopt a wild horse."