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Cows on a farm in in Pretty Prairie, Kansas.Photo: Alice Mannette/The Hutchinson News (AP)Hightemperatures in Kansas last weekend killed thousands of cattle, authorities confirmed this week, after footage of rows of cattle corpses was widely shared online.A spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment told multiple media outlets that the agency had gotten reports of at least 2,000 cattle deaths that happened over the weekend of June 11-12 in the southwestern part of the state. The agency said that the…

Cattle of the Dinka people in Juba, South Sudan. Credit: Ranjit Bhaskar/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 In March 2022, violent clashes between farming communities and cattle herders broke out in Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan. It was the latest incident in months of cattle-related violence in the area, which is in the country's southern region.…