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New study acknowledges vertical farms can slash water use, but warns some vertically farmed crops have a higher carbon footprint than traditional crops
Vertical farms have long been touted as a potential route for slashing agriculture's outsized carbon emissions, while enhancing its climate resilience and curbing its huge environmental impacts. But can...
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