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Land management

Microsoft recently announced a commitment of $50 million and five years to its "AI for Earth" program.
Technology
Artificial intelligence could play a pivotal role in managing and protecting planet’s natural resources
Jim Eklund and Frank Forcella conduct an early test of the concept with a single-nozzle blaster. Jim is driving the ATV and Frank is applying the grit.
Technology
A new organic-approved weed control technique is poised for the big time
No-till farming
Environment
Old-school farming methods could save the planet
A billboard for soybeans in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The region is likely to make Brazil the world's top producer of soybeans, but the boom in production has come at the same time as a rise in deforestation.
Environment
Brazil is set to become the world’s biggest soy producer — and that might be bad news for its forests
Environment
How India’s subsidized farms have created a water crisis
Environment
Highly touted REDD program still looking for footing in Indonesia, four years later
Paper Trees in Precious Ground
Environment
China’s big hog farms pose a big antibiotic resistance risk
Environment
Research into genetic modification of trees may enable more deforestation
Environment
New research survey suggests urban trees are on the decline
Environment
Scientists turning to Pakistani insect predator to try and save California citrus industry
Business, Economics and Jobs
Urban farming grows in Ottawa
Chocolate lovers for the environment
Global Politics
The changing face of farming in America
Development & Education
China faces desertification
Business, Economics and Jobs
A farm in a pickup truck
Business, Economics and Jobs
How manure can save humanity
Global Hit
Summer in the Global Village: Brasil Summerfest — Gaby Amarantos and Planet Hemp
Preserving the Congo Basin’s Trees, Part 1
Business, Economics and Jobs
Canadian Apple Farmer Uses Helicopter to Save Crops from Frost
Environment
5,000-Year-Old Timber Found Perfectly Preserved in Marsh
Business, Economics and Jobs
Kenyan Start-Up Offers Farm in a Backpack
Development & Education
Protecting Northern Australia’s Waterways
Arts, Culture & Media
Video: Indoor Farming is a ‘Plant Paradise’ in the Netherlands
Garden Girl in the City
Sustainable City Gardening
Manure Magic
Seed Saver
Tunnel Gardens
Farmer George
Slow Burn
Headwaters Timber Controversy
Garden Segment
Garden Spot: Toiling the Soil
Logging Plan, Logging Halt
LOE Herbal Garden Spot
Planting Native Trees
Mushroom Garden Spot
Garden Spot
Shady Tree Garden Spot
Perennial Wheat
Hemp to Replace Tobacco Crop?
Garden Spot: Seed Saving
FEIGNING GREEN
Swain Recycles
Prison Ponies
Green Garden Spot: Simple Seedlings
Northwest Forest Plan: Kindling New Turmoil
Industrial Hemp Harvest in Deutschland
Organic Garden Spot
Mudslides Happen: Clearcutting and the Timber Salvage Rider
Saving Your Seeds
Cooling Down the Summer Garden: An Organic Gardening Segment
Designing a Garden: The Green Garden Spot
Down on the Coffee Plantation
Keeping Soil in Its Place
Throwing Away the Spray: Organic Gardening Tips for Listeners
Holistic Resource Management: Working on Common Ground
Reconsidering The World’s Bread Basket
Sustainable Dairy Farming