Environment

Cows Are Smarter Than Whole Foods Shoppers

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Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 19 2023 - 6:27pm

The Top 3 Causes Of Bee Colony Collapses Are Mites, Mites, And Mites- Any Other Claim Is Selling Something

Some food grown in the US, especially high-cost luxuries like almonds, are pollinated using bees. Since bees are most often rented and transported for such purposes, keeping them alive is important to owners and growers. As their value for higher-cost food ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 6 2023 - 5:01am

Ohio Train Derailment Real Dangers of Hydrogen Chloride VS Chemophobic Coverage

O n coverage of the Ohio train derailment remembers the issue isn’t scary chemical names it’s what the chemical compounds are and their concentrations in the environment that are an issue. Anyone who tells you a big black cloud of chemical smoke is good t ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 20 2023 - 11:15am

America's Next Challenge May Be Not Enough Farmland In Use

Right now, 17 percent of the US is cropland while 51 percent is open and essentially unused. We have more open space in the US than the entire continent of Africa, only 3 percent of our land is urban, but you might not be aware of that because activists in ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2023 - 8:31pm

The Subsidies Paradox: Affordable Food Versus The Environment

Food and energy are strategic resources and since conventional energy like oil is presumably finite, its extinction first said to be 30 years ago, the rationale has been to subsidize and mandate alternatives like solar and wind schemes. Food is also subsid ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 1 2023 - 4:47pm

Climate Change, the Walrus and the Carpenter

I have recently watched two videos on climate change by Sabine Hossenfelder.  The first one deals with the understanding of the greenhouse effect.  It is far from being as simple as taught in schools, with young people appearing on television coming out wi ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Mar 17 2023 - 5:46am

Pyrolysis: Using Phosphorus From Wastewater To Grow Better Crops

While modern weedkillers are great about using fewer chemicals and therefore less runoff into streams, the organic manufacturing process uses older, less effective compounds and that means on a calorie-per-calorie basis, the harm to the environment may be ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 20 2023 - 10:49am

With No Evidence Of Harm, Taxpayers Will End Up Paying Environmental Lawyers For PFAS Litigation

With allied epidemiologists placed inside the US Environmental Protection Agency, and scientists pushed to the side, environmentalists feel like they are about to get a win when it comes to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that have been common f ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 18 2023 - 12:36pm

Kenyan Government Needs To Listen To Farmers- That Will Make Pesticide Usage Safer

In wealthy western breadbaskets like France and the United States, environmental groups who get donations from the $130 billion organic food industry claim it is viable everywhere else too. It's not just that they don't understand agriculture or ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 28 2023 - 8:42am

Insecticides For Malaria Control Aren't Perfect- But It Beats Having Dead Children In Poor Countries

Malaria infects 250,000,000 each year and kills nearly 700,000. It is so rare in America that academics and activists can lament chemicals that kill mosquitoes which transmit it to humans, and even block mosquitoes engineered to prohibit reproduction, but ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 30 2023 - 4:52pm