In Case You Missed It…

6 years ago

Written by Marcia G. Yerman

As a new season begins, sweltering heat lingers and wildfires continue to blaze across the nation, while dangerous hurricanes rapidly intensify. Here are some important climate stories you may have missed: BAD NEWS In August, there were seventeen wildfires in California. This included the “Mendocino...

Marcia G. Yerman

Climate smart rice farming: Integrated co-management of fertilizers with mild-intermittent flooding

6 years ago

This blog was co-authored by Richie Ahuja, Tapan Adhya & Kritee By applying climate smart farming practices, small-holder farming communities in India can become more climate resilient, as well as improve yield and profit. But as recently revealed by Environmental Defense Fund, rice farmers using the well intentioned current prescribed irrigation practice – intermittent flooding – […]

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Richie Ahuja

Climate smart rice farming: Integrated co-management of fertilizers with mild-intermittent flooding

6 years ago
This blog was co-authored by Richie Ahuja, Tapan Adhya & Kritee By applying climate smart farming practices, small-holder farming communities in India can become more climate resilient, as well as improve yield and profit. But as recently revealed by Environmental Defense Fund, rice farmers using the well intentioned current prescribed irrigation practice – intermittent flooding – […]
Richie Ahuja

Global anthropogenic climate impacts must include nitrous oxide emissions from rice fields

6 years ago

This blog was co-authored by Kritee, Jeremy Proville, Terry Loecke, Richie Ahuja Rice is a critical global crop: it provides livelihood to 150 million households and is a staple for half of humanity. However, it uses 11% of arable land and a third of irrigation water. In addition, continuously flooded rice fields are like wetlands and […]

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Kritee

We Need a Climate Champion in 2020

6 years ago
It's not enough to recognize the danger and call for action. All Americans should insist on specific, bold plans from candidates in both parties to cut climate pollution and move us rapidly toward a clean energy economy. C4.
Environmental Defense Fund