Who Drinks the River?
The Colorado's paper allocations exceed its water, and the shortfall has to land on someone. Set the river's flow, choose the allocation rule, and the model computes who gets what.
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The Farmland Atlas
One person's map of where the ground still works. A weighted index of climate, water, land quality and hazards, projected for 2070 under SSP2-4.5, with overlays for people, access and land use. Click anywhere and read the score.
by Norbert L. Kiss farmlandatlas.com →
Harvest2Market
NASA Harvest's open-access platform puts satellite crop conditions, the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor, trade relationships and food-security assessments side by side, so a blocked strait, a fertiliser shortfall and next year's rice harvest read as one chain instead of three headlines.
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The Screwworm Returns
New World screwworm, a flesh-eating fly larva eradicated from the United States decades ago, is again a foreign animal disease threat to the cattle industry. A model of the sterile-fly barrier, the border, and the herd.
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After the Soy Moratorium
A voluntary pact from 2006 held soy-driven deforestation in the Amazon near zero. It was abandoned in January 2026. A study in Science projects at least 1.4 million hectares of extra deforestation by 2036.
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England's Water
After nearly three months with barely any rain, authorities suspended or restricted water abstraction licences for 1,327 farms. Can a wet island run dry, and what does storage, leakage and abstraction law decide?
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