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                                BILLOWED FROM the sugar stacks. The vegetal rot 
                                of processed sugarbeets wafted over the 
                                interstate. The vinegar aftertaste coated my 
                                throat. Stung my nostrils. The sharp scent of 
                                sugary wastewater seeped into my pores. Outside 
                                my Toyota pickup, the wind blew across fields 
                                crusted with December snow and salts. It was my 
                                first North Dakota winter in three years. My 
                                first drive along the Red River since leaving my 
                                career as an American literature professor in 
                                New England to assume my position as a soil 
                                conservationist in my home county. The smell 
                                from the sugar stacks along I-29 was a reminder 
                                of how long I’d been gone. It would take a week 
                                for me to reacclimate to the noxious odor that 
                                the sugar industry has rescripted as “the sweet 
                                smell of jobs.”</P>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px">Like 
                                many folks from the rural Great Plains, I’ve 
                                left home more times than I can count.… But the 
                                prairie and my father’s long battle with 
                                multiple sclerosis have perennially called me 
                                home.</P>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px">The 
                                chipped-tooth border between North Dakota and 
                                Minnesota is a landscape dominated by salt and 
                                sugar. We grow more processed sugar in the Red 
                                River Valley than anywhere else in the country. 
                                The American Crystal Sugar factories that line 
                                the Red River produce 3 billion pounds of 
                                processed sugar per year. The industrial methods 
                                used to grow sugarbeets and other monoculture 
                                cash crops leave behind patches of water-soluble 
                                salts trapped on the surface of compacted soils. 
                                These saline conditions spread across bare 
                                fields that were once tallgrass prairie, the 
                                biodiverse grasslands replaced by growing 
                                patches of salted earth, where almost nothing 
                                grows.</P>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px">An 
                                aerial view of my home in flyover country bears 
                                resemblance to the MRI scans of my father’s 
                                brain and spinal cord. The salt crust on black 
                                fields mirrors the plaque that builds up along 
                                dad’s myelin sheath. The chisel plows that cut 
                                through dense networks of mycorrhizal fungi, 
                                ritually destroying the soil microbiome, are 
                                akin to my father’s confused immune system that 
                                attacks the protective fatty tissue around his 
                                nerve fibers and spine.</P>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px">It’s 
                                been three years since that winter homecoming. 
                                Today, in my dual roles as a soil 
                                conservationist and my father’s caregiver, I 
                                have begun to dream about an alternative to the 
                                monoculture economies that poison the land and 
                                our bodies.</P>
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                                align=center><I>Writer Josh Anderson explores 
                                the deep connections between human health and 
                                soil health, and his vision for a thriving Great 
                                Plains prairie ecosystem that supports 
                                both.</I></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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                                href="https://donate.earthisland.org/s/4081237/bJSo6b64" 
                                target=_blank>Weather Wagers</A></H1></B>
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                                style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lato','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px">Betting 
                                on the climate has become a multimillion-dollar 
                                industry in the last few years. At times, it 
                                “may look like a harmless numbers game, but it 
                                raises deeper questions about which events 
                                should — or should not — be open to 
                                speculation.” <SPAN 
                                style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white; COLOR: black">(</SPAN><A 
                                style="COLOR: #0056b3" 
                                href="https://atmos.earth/art-and-culture/the-climate-casino-inside-the-markets-betting-on-our-planets-future" 
                                target=_blank><SPAN 
                                style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white"><I>Atmos</I></SPAN></A><SPAN 
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                                href="https://donate.earthisland.org/s/4081238/bJSo6b64" 
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                                class=MsoNormal><SPAN>Genome editing has become 
                                a deceptively simple process, allowing humans to 
                                make fruits sweeter, edit sterility into pests, 
                                and alter traits like eye color with little more 
                                than a prod of a syringe. New applications may 
                                offer ways to prevent the extinction of 
                                threatened species. But even if we could use 
                                gene editing to save animals, should we? 
                                (</SPAN><A style="COLOR: #0056b3" 
                                href="https://www.noemamag.com/editing-nature-to-fix-our-failures/" 
                                target=_blank><SPAN><I>Noema</I></SPAN></A><SPAN>)</SPAN></P>
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                                year after Hurricane Helene ravaged the US 
                                southeast, many rural homeowners are still 
                                navigating red tape as they attempt to access 
                                federal aid. Among the people who have 
                                successfully managed to get housing assistance, 
                                it’s those with the highest incomes who often 
                                receive the most support. (<A 
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                                style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white; COLOR: rgb(33,37,41)">the 
                                cargo ship </SPAN><SPAN><I>Gulf Livestock 1 
                                </I>headed straight into the path of a Category 
                                4 typhoon in the Philippine Sea, carrying 43 
                                crew and 5,867 dairy cattle. The aging livestock 
                                carrier never made it out of the storm, and all 
                                but two of the crew died, along with every 
                                single cow. This was the worst disaster in the 
                                history of the live-export trade and highlighted 
                                the dangers of the industry. Yet, five years 
                                later, the brutal farm animal trade continues. 
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