ERIN NEGLEY | Staff WriterThroughout the month, there are dozens of talks and classes to learn about plants, virtual and in-person in the Lancaster County region.
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Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco. A six-year drought has imperiled the country’s entire agriculture sector, including farmers who grow cereals and grains used to feed humans and animals. The North African nation projects this year’s harvest will be smaller than last year in both volume and acreage, putting farmers out of work, requiring more imports and raising the price of flour for everyday consumers. It's one place in which climate change is wreaking havoc and presenting new political, economic and social problems.
A farmer works in a wheat field on the outskirts of Kenitra, Morocco, Friday, June 21, 2024. Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco. A six-year drought has imperiled the country's entire agriculture sector, including farmers who grow cereals and grains used to feed humans and animals. (AP Photo)
Brazil’s Forest Service announced a plan to bring a massive area of Amazon rainforest currently vulnerable to illegal deforestation under national governance Tuesday. The South American country, which holds two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest, plans to make an area the size of Costa Rica available for selective logging over the next two years. The plan is intended to protect the areas from land-grabbers in part by giving private timber concerns a stake in policing them.
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The recent stretch of extremely hot weather is frustrating for those of us who enjoy working in our gardens and seeing summer blooms and harvest.
Bei Bei, a male giant panda, born in Smithsonian's National Zoo in the U.S. in 2015 and returned to China in 2019, eats bamboo at the Bifengxia Panda Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Caroline Chen)
Bei Bei, a male giant panda, born in Smithsonian's National Zoo in the U.S. in 2015 and returned to China in 2019, eats bamboo at the Bifengxia Panda Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Caroline Chen)
Male Giant Panda, Mei Sheng born in San Diego Zoo (US) in 2003 and returned to China in 2007, eats bamboo under a hut at the Bifengxia Panda Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Caroline Chen)
Male Giant Panda, Mei Sheng born in San Diego Zoo (US) in 2003 and returned to China in 2007, eats bamboo under a hut at the Bifengxia Panda Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Caroline Chen)
A rare chance to take a tour at Green Leaf Plants and Burpee’s historic garden in Doylestown are coming up.