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With 60 harvests left to save the Earth's soils, an environmental advocate and a farmer share their thoughts on what must change.

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Researchers at UC Berkeley and ecologists at the Presidio in San Francisco are digging into the question: can human hair supercharge the soil on our farms and fields and help us fight the impacts ...

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