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GRAPHIC: Droughts, extreme rainfall will likely become more frequent and more intense, UN climate change report shows
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“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,” the report reads.
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#AgAlerts: CAFOs; Solar; Partial wavers
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CAFOs have long been a hot-button issue in big farming states like Iowa and North Carolina. “In Iowa, there’s been like, 15,000 new CAFOs in the last eight years or something like that,” says Bob Martin, program director of Food System Policy at the Center for a Livable Future. “And they’re continuing to intensify in North Carolina, in broiler [chicken] CAFOs on the Eastern Shore [of Maryland] … they’re kind of moving unabated,” he adds.