Near the end of 1991, the residents of Bugøynes, then a village of about 300 people in Norway’s Arctic north, ran an ad in the national newspaper Dagbladet, begging somebody to relocate them en masse.

My father saw two things in lawns: grass and not grass. Botanists have labeled this ‘plant blindness’; as fewer people farm or learn botany in school, fewer people can identify plants or even ...

In a state shaped by water grabs, drought emergencies, and ‘pray for rain’ billboards, Payahuunadü is the locus of California’s most infamous water war—the fight between Payahuunadü residents and ...

House Agriculture Committee chair Glenn Thompson would funnel $10 billion in food stamp cuts into an expansion of trade promotion and horticulture programs as part of the new farm bill, said ...

When Noah Williams was about a year old, his parents took him on a fateful drive through the endless desert sagebrush of the Owens Valley—which the Nüümü call Payahuunadü—in California’s ...

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