A piece of plastic debris that's been colonized by both costal barnacles (pink and striped) and a gooseneck barnacle from the open ocean. Linsey Haram/SERC Marine Invasions Lab hide caption
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Rich Showalter bought this land in 1975. He sold it earlier this year to Ray Williams, who hasn't yet had a chance to look at his new asset. Dan Charles/NPR hide caption
Big-Money Investors Gear Up For A Trillion-Dollar Bet On Farmland
Activists demonstrated recently in High Springs, Fla., to oppose Nestlé's plan to withdraw more than a million gallons of water a day from Ginnie Springs. Reagan Fink/WUFT hide caption
The Water Is Already Low At A Florida Freshwater Spring, But Nestlé Wants More
Allagash employees Salim Raal, left, and Brendan McKay stack bottles of Golden Brett, a limited release beer fermented with a house strain of Brettanomyces yeast. The Maine brewery recently installed solar panels as part of its sustainability initiatives. Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images hide caption
A sugar beet. This crop supplies about half of America's sugar. iStockphoto hide caption