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Nonilex

US judge orders #Trump admin to reinstate thousands of fired workers

A California federal judge on Thurs ordered 6 US #FederalAgencies to reinstate thousands of recently-hired employees who were fired as part of Trump's purge of the federal workforce.

The ruling made by US Dist Judge William Alsup in San Francisco during a hearing applies to the Departments of #Defense, #Veterans Affairs,#Agriculture, #Energy, #Interior & the #Treasury.

#law #DOGE #Musk
reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-

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petersuber

Update. "US science rues ongoing demotion of research under President Trump"
physicsworld.com/a/us-science-

"In his first cabinet meeting on 26 February, #Trump suggested that officials “use scalpels” when trimming their departments’ spending and personnel – rather than #Musk’s figurative chainsaw. But bosses at the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA) still plan to cut its budget by about two-thirds…The White House’s attack on #climate science goes beyond just the EPA. In January, the US Department of #Agriculture removed almost all data on climate change from its website…The Trump administration has also barred #NASA’s now former chief scientist Katherine Calvin and members of the State Department from travelling to China for a planning meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Meanwhile, in a speech to African energy ministers in Washington on 7 March, US energy secretary Chris Wright claimed that coal has “transformed our world and made it better”, adding that climate change, while real, is not on his list of the world’s top 10 problems."

Physics World · US science rues ongoing demotion of research under President Trump – Physics WorldUS science continues to be hit hard by budget and staff cuts
#Censorship#DefendResearch#Takedowns
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks

States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for #schools to buy food from nearby #farms.
politico.com/news/2025/03/10/u

"State officials were notified Friday of USDA’s decision to end the LFS program for this year...

“Donald Trump and #ElonMusk have declared that feeding #children and supporting local #farmers are no longer ‘priorities,’""

Headline and photo with caption. Headline: Agriculture USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms. By Marcia Brown 03/10/2025 08:29 PM EDT Photo: Side salads sit on a tray. Caption: USDA ended the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program. | Rogelio V. Solis/AP
#Musk#Trump#Corruption
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petersuber

Update. "USDA’s Purge of #Climate #Data is Illegal and Reckless, Doing Immediate Harm to Farmers, Lawsuit Alleges"
insideclimatenews.org/news/050

"The #Trump administration has deleted thousands of climate-related web pages from the U.S. Department of #Agriculture’s (#USDA) website, stripping #farmers of critical resources as droughts, floods and shifting growing conditions intensify. Now, a coalition of environmental and farming groups is suing to get that information back, arguing that the purge is not just reckless but illegal."

Inside Climate News · USDA’s Purge of Climate Data is Illegal and Reckless, Doing Immediate Harm to Farmers, Lawsuit Alleges   - Inside Climate NewsSmall agricultural operations and farmers new to the industry were left particularly vulnerable when the Trump administration took down websites that provide climate information, the plaintiffs claim.
#Censorship#DefendResearch#Takedowns
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O=C=O

Women and girls continue to bear disproportionate impacts of heatwaves in South Sudan that have become a constant threat

#ExtremeHeat has affected a large region of continental Eastern #Africa since mid-February. Extreme daytime temperatures have been recorded in South #Sudan particularly affecting people in poor housing and outdoor workers, a very large part of the population.

After dozens of children collapsed with #heatstroke in #Juba, schools were closed for two weeks nationwide starting February 20 and the population was advised to stay indoors and keep hydrated. Both are a huge challenge for many across the country as houses are often built with iron roofs, lack cooling and electricity and access to clean #water. In Juba, a third of the population does not have access to water and only 1% of the city offers green space and shade for people who do not have access to cooling at home. #Heatwaves are arguably the deadliest type of #ExtremeWeather event and have a large impact beyond #mortality, on e.g., #morbidity, #agriculture, #infrastructure, and #economic opportunities the death toll is often underreported and not known until months after the event and many other impacts are not systematically assessed. Those reported so far in South Sudan only represent a very small #sample of the full impacts. The impacts we do see already disproportionately affect #women and #girls, and widen the gap between their opportunities and those of men in an already #unequal #society.

worldweatherattribution.org/wo

A women collects water in Juba, South Sudan. Image by Rod Waddington.
Figure 1. Seven day average maximum temperature (TX7x) for the period of 22 of February to 28 of February. The blue box highlights the study region. Data ERA5.
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ts 🚉

As we talk about energy, we need to talk about a decrease in *overall* energy use—especially as so-called AI is a topic of conversation. Moving to renewables alone will not cut it. We also CANNOT afford to count on technology that might, eventually exist (e.g. meaningful carbon capture with some device or facility).

The time to take real action for ourselves was yesterday. Let’s push for it now

#agriculture #building #climate #construction #energy #landUse #transportation

(Edited: hashtags)

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Nonilex

#Trump claimed that his #trade policy will be “great” for the American #farmer because they won’t have to compete w/foreign producers.

Actual #farmers point out that the #US #agriculture industry produces far more corn, soybeans, pork, chicken, cattle etc. than Americans could possibly consume. Farmers say they need foreign markets, but other countries impose #tariffs on their goods in #retaliation for Trump’s tariffs. That cuts them off from the foreign customers they need.

#USpol#idiocracy
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Megan Lynch (she/her)

In an alternate universe where I had sufficient free time, I'd love to learn how to make an animated GIF map of the changes in crop growing in regions of CA.

There's been a lot of change just in my lifetime and I'd love to see it represented in map form.

Including the oranges where Disneyland now is and apricots where Apple now is.

#Agriculture#California
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mk30

There are a lot of interesting things in this article about Larry Ellison's expensive ($500mn) efforts to build automated greenhouses on the island of Lanai, in Hawai'i (an island on which he owns 98% of land): luxurylaunches.com/other_stuff

It's important reading for anyone curious about the reality of automated/indoor farming, which has captured the imagination of many, with its slick marketing images of clean, white greenhouses bursting with lettuces.

Not only does this case study reveal things about the difficulties of automated farming, it also reveals things about how people from the tech world approach agricultural projects.

Luxurylaunches · Larry Ellison spent $500 million on his grand plan to feed the world by growing lettuce on his private island in Hawaii. Forget the world; the Oracle billionaire’s plan has been an utter failure, as his space-age greenhouses have barely managed to supply produce to nearby islands. - Luxurylaunches
#tech#agriculture#farming
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JoeSilver

My commentary on the paper 'The loss of peri-urban agricultural land and the state-local tensions in managing its demise: The case of Greater Western Sydney, Australia' (Amy Lawton, Nicky Morrison. 2022)
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Peri-urban agricultural land is rapidly disappearing. Between 2011 and 2016, 66 per cent of primary production land in Greater Western Sydney was lost to urban development.

Historically, these areas have played a crucial role in food security and resilience, providing not only food and fibre but also ecosystem services, flood and urban heat mitigation, recreation, and liveability benefits.

In this paper, Lawton and Morris argue that farming’s limited profitability incentivises an ageing generation of farmers to re-zone and subdivide their land as a retirement strategy. At the same time, conflicting state and local planning policies fail to safeguard peri-urban farmland from development.

As more peri-urban agricultural land is lost, young farmers struggle to access affordable land, and cities become increasingly dependent on lengthy, energy-intensive supply chains.

Meanwhile, ecosystems surrounding our most populated areas continue to be degraded.
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The conclusions in this paper are corroborated by real world experiences of young farmers in Western Sydney and through to the west of the Blue Mountains.

In these areas, personal contacts of mine have not been able to buy or even lease suitable land to grow food because land is typically valued for residential purposes, which far exceeds what is accessible for young farmers with no access to capital.

Even where land is zoned exclusively for agricultural purposes, developers and speculators are land banking which prevents farmers from utilising land.

In some cases young farmers have been exploited by developers in a scam to gain development approval. The farmers are 'employed' by land owners to develop agricultural activities on the land in order to gain development approval to build homes. However, once the homes are complete the owners cease farming activities and kick the farmers off the land.

In another case, a young farming couple were effectively locked out of their property by a non-farming neighbour, who bullied them via the courts until they sold him their land.
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Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2
#Agriculture #GreaterWesternSydney #FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty #AcademicCommunity

doi.orgThe loss of peri-urban agricultural land and the state-local tensions in managing its demise: The case of Greater Western Sydney, AustraliaCities globally have witnessed rapid growth, with the world’s population becoming more urban than rural over the last decade. In Australia, this has l…
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