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California [10]

"First Scorched, Then Soaked: Weather Whiplash Confounds Farmers" [11]

"As the war in Ukraine disrupts the global grain market, a volatile climate leaves Kansas on track to harvest its smallest wheat crop in decades."

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International [13]

Source: NYTimes [14], 08/10/2023

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‘Metal Box Heated From The Inside’: Food Truck Workers Battle Heat [15]

"As tortillas warm on the grill at Los Pookies – an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based food truck best known for its birria tacos – a swamp cooler blasts cool air and extractor fans try their best to suck the heat out of the metal trailer."

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Source: Guardian [20], 08/09/2023

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"Alaska’s Newest Gold Rush: Seaweed" [21]

"Dune Lankard piloted the gleaming gill-net fishing boat to Simpson Bay, where eight buoys bobbed in the sunlight. The bright orange inflatables, connected by lines and spread out across five acres, provided the only indication of the ocean farm that lay beneath the water’s surface."

Food [9]

Water & Oceans [22]

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Alaska and Hawaii [23]

Source: Washington Post [24], 08/01/2023

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"Can’t Beat Them? Eat Them: The Fight Against The US Wild Boar Plague" [25]

"These feral pigs cause billions of damage, but some chefs and meat purveyors are putting this pork on the map – and menus".

Biodiversity [6]

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Wildlife [26]

Public [3]

Source: Guardian [27], 07/27/2023

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August 31, 2023

US EPA Webinar: Food Sovereignty (Part 2) – Food Forests & Sustainable Healthy Foods [28]

This EPA webinar will focus on how forests are an important source of healthy foods for tribal and Indigenous communities. Learn how tribes, tribal communities, indigenous communities, and any interested community can work with forest managers to access and support food forests.

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Rice Crops Threatened By El Nino After Grain Supplies Were Disrupted By War [33]

"Warmer, drier weather because of an earlier than usual El Nino is expected to hamper rice production across Asia, hitting global food security in a world still reeling from the impacts of the war in Ukraine."

Food [9]

Public [3]

Asia [34]

Source: AP [35], 07/17/2023

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WHO Lists Sweetener Aspartame As Possible Cancer Cause. Some Say It’s Safe [36]

"The World Health Organization’s cancer agency has deemed the sweetener aspartame — found in diet soda and countless other foods — as a “possible” cause of cancer, while a separate expert group looking at the same evidence said it still considers the sugar substitute safe in limited quantities.

The differing results of the coordinated reviews were released early Friday. One came from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a special branch of the WHO. The other report was from an expert panel selected by WHO and another U.N. group, the Food and Agriculture Organization.

Chemicals [37]

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