August 2019

Learn About Forest Carbon Markets Through New Online Curriculum

By Chris Schnepf Ten years ago, when I visited with forest owners about climate change, there was a fair amount discussion about what was happening or not, and all the politics surrounding it. But one of the topics landowners were intrigued about—regardless of the extent to which they believed climate was changing—was carbon markets. Forest […]

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What You Need to Know About Fruit Acclimation to Heat Stress

By Antoinette Avorgbedo, Intern at Washington State University’s Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center and the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources Did you know that people indigenous to the hotter equatorial regions have much lower sweat rates than people in cooler regions of the world? Similar to the ability of the human body […]