Keeping Our Environment Healthy
Keeping Our Environment Healthy Blog
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UC Cooperative Extension deploys a team of 10 to help farmers practice climate-smart agriculture
Scientists are developing climate-smart farming practices, California is offering financial incentives to implement them, and now a group of 10 UC Cooperative Extension climate-smart educators are taking the program to the next level. To help farmers...
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Genomic gymnastics help sorghum plant survive drought
Scorching temperatures and parched earth are no match for the sorghum plant — this cereal crop, native to Africa, will remain green and productive, even under conditions that would render other plants brown, brittle and barren. A new study...
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UC Cooperative Extension ramps up its climate change response
While scientific reports continue to mount confirming that global climate change is increasing temperatures, causing more frequent weather extremes and raising the sea level in California, UC Cooperative Extension is working to ensure the worst...
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UCCE seeks to mitigate climate change’s impact on already disadvantaged communities
For UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE), attention to climate change goes beyond an increase in severe wildfires, droughts, floods and heat in California, and their impact on natural resources, agriculture and the state's economy. The program focuses on the...
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To protect California ecosystem services, they must be valued
The ecosystem services of landscapes in California are essential to the state's future, but many people take them for granted. In addition to direct economic outputs, working landscapes – farms, rangelands, forests and fisheries, to name a few...