Environment
- Bt Spray In The Organic Movement: Hypocrisy Or Scientific Illiteracy?
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We’ve been saying for years that the anti-GMO folks haven’t a scientific leg to st ...
Article - American Council ... - Sep 3 2015 - 10:00am
- Study Finds Atrazine Pesticide Doesn't Impact Aquatic Plant Life
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A recent study found that the herbicide atrazine, common for weed control in corn and sorghum crops in large-scale farming operations, does not have any measurable impact on aquatic plant life over the long term. Atrazine has been used for decades and some ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2015 - 6:22pm
- Blame Natural Plants For Endocrine Disruption In Frogs
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Green frogs in the suburbs are undergoing a gender switch- but it isn't pesticides doing it, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the same journal that set off the craze in thinking pesticides were causing frogs ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2015 - 8:27am
- Natural Shrubbery Changes Sex Ratio Of Suburban Frogs
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Green frogs in the suburbs are seeing a gender revolution. A new Yale study shows that estrogen in suburban yards is changing the ratio of male and female green frogs at nearby ponds. Higher levels of estrogen in areas where there are shrubs, vegetable ga ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2015 - 7:30am
- Citizen Science Then And Now. Want To Play The Game?
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Our cabin is situated in one of the most remote places in Norway. My family got the place in the early 60ties and at the time there were no roads leading to what then was a fox farm kitchen. It is still one of the most remote areas of Norway. I grew up li ...
Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Sep 15 2015 - 6:42pm
- To Make EU Food Sector Renewable Energy Viable, Less Meat And More...Organic Veggies?
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Renewable energy is not very sustainable in the European Union (EU) yet but the food industry, which is heavily reliable on subsidies to stay competitive with the rest of the world, needs renewable energy costs to come down to remain viable. Until then, t ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2015 - 7:48pm
- The Productivity Of Organic Farming In The US: Mind The Gap
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Article - Steve Savage - Oct 13 2015 - 9:48pm
- How Nature Stabilizes Ecosystems During Climate Extremes
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It sounded ridiculous when Gina McCarthy claimed nature was fixing itself after they created a toxic waste disaster in Colorado but that future methane needed the EPA to halt it right now, yet science has again shown that nature is more resilient than pol ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2015 - 8:30am
- Contaminated Land Could Actually Be Good For Trees
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The very act of tolerating some forms of soil pollution may give trees an advantage in the natural world, says University of Montreal plant biologists. Their findings were published this week in BMC Plant Biology. ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2015 - 7:32am
- Adaptive Management: Global Warming Will Require New Conservation Models
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A threatened tree species in Alaska could serve as a model for integrating ecological and social research methods in efforts to safeguard species that are vulnerable to climate change effects and human activity. In a new study, scientists assessed the hea ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2015 - 9:00am
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