Environment

Without Science Leadership, Food Shortages Could Be Critical World Issue By 2050

The world could be less than 40 years away from a food shortage that will have serious implications for people and governments, according to a senior science advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development. It's not Paul Ehrlich/John Holdren ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 12:02pm

Some Fish In Remote National Parks Show Elevated Levels Of Mercury

Mercury levels in excess of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency health thresholds for potential impacts to fish, birds, and humans have been detected in fish in some of the most remote national park lakes and streams in the western United States and Alask ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2014 - 2:38am

No-Till Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration Claims Questioned

During the 20 year span of global warming policy debates, climate scientists have used an estimate of soil organic carbon sequestration rates suggesting that soil organic carbon can be sequestered by simply switching from moldboard or conventional tillage ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2014 - 9:54am

Holistic Conservation: Forget 20th Century Claims About People And Species Extinction

The USA alone has more wilderness than the entire continent of Africa does, but the natural world is not the same as it was 20, 50 or 100 years ago.  And the natural world than was far different than preceding generations. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2014 - 4:28pm

12 Ways To Further Reduce Agriculture's Climate Footprint

If you really care about the climate, you can stop filling out surveys and complaining about what people believe and do something more meaningful than buy carbon credits- you can give up meat.  And 11 other things that can separate you from the pack that ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2014 - 9:26pm

Miscanthus Grass For Biomass An Economic Alternative For Unusable Land

North Carolina farmers and landowners are participating in program to grow giant miscanthus grass for renewable products using underutilized and marginal land. Giant miscanthus grass is a rapidly renewable biomass crop that provides a viable economic alter ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2014 - 12:18am

The Worst US Droughts Now Aren't Even In The Top 10 Of The Last Few Hundred Years

In a Twitter age, one where mainstream media desperately needs to keep people watching and reading, every event is magnified. A tropical storm that hit New York City was transformed into a Superstorm and a drought in the West is a harbinger of global warm ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2014 - 9:28am

US Corn Yields Are Incredible, But Still Vulnerable To Hot, Dry Weather

Corn yields in the central United States have increased dramatically in the last few decades- but they have also become more sensitive to drought conditions. ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2014 - 9:00pm

Plastic Company’s Unscientific Biodegradability Claims Barred by FTC

The Federal Trade Commission Friday approved a final order prohibiting a Washington-based plastic bag manufacturer from making false biodegradability claims about its products. ...

Blog Post - Brandon T. Bisceglia - May 4 2014 - 12:47am

Environmental Racism: Minorities Are At Higher Risk For Chemical Catastrophe

A paper by The Environmental Justice and Health Alliance (EJHA), Center for Effective Government (CEG) and Coming Clean, links higher poverty to many Black and Latino communities living within chemical disaster "vulnerability zones" and say the r ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2014 - 9:04pm