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Latest Climate Report Warns of Major Upheaval to California Way of Life

19 octobre 2026 à 08:00
The dire projections come from the state’s Climate Change Assessment, which analyzes the impacts of changing weather patterns on the nation’s most-populous state.

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The report finds that without major intervention, as much as three-quarters of California’s beaches could disappear — either seasonally or permanently — by 2100 because of coastal erosion.

Across Farm Country, Economic Discontent Strains Republican Coalition

18 octobre 2026 à 05:00
Farmers and ranchers have supported President Trump for a decade. But the war in Iran, tariffs and other administration policies have soured some on the G.O.P.

Will Rural Voters Sit Out the Midterms?

Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent, travels to a cattle auction in Calhan, Colo., to see if economic anxieties are affecting the loyalty of rural voters to the Republican Party.

El Niño Threatens Global Sugar Supply

16 octobre 2026 à 10:41
A sugarcane crop withered by El Niño in India, the world’s second-largest producer, is hurting consumers and farmers — plus undermining the country’s energy security goals.

A worker tending to a sugarcane crop in Maharashtra, India, in September.

Rhode Island Farmer Grows Record-Breaking Pumpkin

15 octobre 2026 à 10:45
A farmer in Rhode Island raised a 3,156-pound pumpkin this year, setting a new measure for the greatest of all gourds.

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Ron Wallace celebrates with his possible record breaking pumpkin.

Why Chinese College Grads Are Becoming Farmers

12 octobre 2026 à 23:50
Facing a competitive job market, college graduates in China are trading corporate jobs for farming, equipped with smartphones and tech skills.

At a Potato Festival, Our Berlin Reporter Deepened His Ties to a New Land

8 octobre 2026 à 05:01
The annual Kartoffelfest was a chance to update family traditions, with an American baby born abroad.

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Nora and Hugo Tankersley with their mother, Lily, at a family outing to a potato festival last month in Berlin.
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