Up Next
Back to Show
Earth Focus
Battlefields to Farmfields
Click above to watch "Battlefields to Farmfields," a segment featured in a recent "Earth Focus" special on "food heroes."
The transition from combat to civilian life is a challenge for many veterans. Farming provides not only employment, but physical respite and a means of therapeutic recovery. As the U.S. is losing farmers to retirement and the USDA is calling for one million new farmers to fill the gap, can agriculture's problem become our veterans' solution?
Support Provided By
25:26
Two cities, San Francisco and Freetown, brace for climate change using vastly different methodologies.
25:58
Droughts and floods are driving many people away from their rural, farming communities into big cities.
25:30
Forecasts are dire for Louisiana to experience the second-highest sea level rise in the world. How is the region adapting?
26:40
“Vanishing Coral” presents the personal story of scientists and naturalists who are working with local communities to protect coral reefs that are being destroyed by warming seas, pollution, and destructive fishing practices.
33:46
"Earth Focus" looks at three countries on the new fracking frontline: South Africa, Poland, and the UK.