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In one, five women in white hanbok, carrying bundles of white laundry on their heads, form a tight, diagonal spiral (in response to gusts of wind?) against dark fields of grass and cropland.
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E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
Acid rain, caused by these emissions, has damaged a third of China’s limited cropland, in addition to forests and watersheds on the Korean Peninsula and in Japan.
—Thomas N. Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2013
Snakes and river rapids are just some of the challenges with measuring the carbon removed from sprinkling rock dust on cropland, says Terradot CEO James Kanoff.
—Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
Soaring food prices in 2007 and 2008 led to a global land rush, with private investors and sovereign wealth funds snatching up cropland across the Global South.
—Mark Gongloff, Boston Herald, 28 Dec. 2024
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E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
Acid rain, caused by these emissions, has damaged a third of China’s limited cropland, in addition to forests and watersheds on the Korean Peninsula and in Japan.
—Thomas N. Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2013
Snakes and river rapids are just some of the challenges with measuring the carbon removed from sprinkling rock dust on cropland, says Terradot CEO James Kanoff.
—Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
Soaring food prices in 2007 and 2008 led to a global land rush, with private investors and sovereign wealth funds snatching up cropland across the Global South.
—Mark Gongloff, Boston Herald, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Cropland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cropland. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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cropland
noun
crop·land
ˈkräp-ˌland 
: land on which crops are grown
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