Environment

Enlist: What You Need To Know About New Dual Herbicide Resistant GMOs

by Marc Brazeau, Genetic Literacy Project Next week, the Environmental Protection Agency is set to approve Enlist Duo–a new herbicide formulation that combines two popular herbicides,  2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and glyphosate (the active ingr ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Oct 11 2014 - 10:39am

Modern Droughts Are Nothing- 1934 Was The Worst Of The Last 1,000 Years

In an instantaneous, 24-hour news cycle, a lot of being made of current U.S. droughts but the 1934 version was 7X larger than other comparable intensity droughts that struck North America between 1000 A.D. and 2005, and nearly 30 percent worse than the ne ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2014 - 4:30pm

Altered Forest Tree Composition Not Due To Global Warming

We can blame man for the altered composition of Eastern forests, but not climate change, according to a researcher in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. Forests in the Eastern United States remain in a state of "disequilibrium" ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 2:00pm

Toxic Playgrounds: Broken Hill Kids Exposed To Poisonous Dust

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Article - The Conversation - Oct 16 2014 - 3:30pm

Agriculture: Diversity Produces Greater Long-Term Yields Than Monocultures

80 years ago, America was going through The Dust Bowl and farmers got a lot of the blame. They didn't let land lay fallow, or used monocultures. Now we know it was the worst drought of the last 1,000 years, 7X larger than other comparable intensity d ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2014 - 2:00pm

Antibiotic Levels In Farm-Raised Fish Are Safe, But Need Watching

Modern food science has meant a lot fewer people starving, but there has also been an increase in products designed to keep animals and fish healthy, like antibiotics. Antibiotics do not just disappear. Even in trace amounts, over time they can build up i ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2014 - 6:53pm

Finding Fracking Fluids In The Environment

New geochemical tracers can identify any hydraulic fracturing flowback fluids that could have spilled into the environment, according to field tests at a spill site in West Virginia and downstream from an oil and gas brine wastewater treatment plant in Pe ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2014 - 4:30pm

Dams Are Not The Smart Way To Secure Water For Agriculture

The Ord River dam, completed in 1971, formed Australia's largest artificial lake in the far north west. Graeme Churchard /Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Willem Vervoort, University of Sydney Some 27 irrigation and dam projects are highlighted in the green pa ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 22 2014 - 6:00am

No-Till Agriculture Hasn't Lived Up To The Promise

No-till farming is prized by organic and conservation-minded farmers alike because it seeks a chemical-free management practice, avoiding conventional plowing and otherwise disturbing the soil. It sounds terrific but a new meta-analysis finds it is a lot ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2014 - 8:00am

Culling The Population Is Not A Realistic Environmental Solution

In the 1960s and '70s, population bomb reality was said to be as settled as climate change is today. No less than Dr. John Holdren, current Obama administration Science Czar, co-authored a book called Ecoscience, which argued that forced sterilizatio ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2014 - 12:30pm