Environment

If You Care About Emissions, Rethink Urban Agriculture

Urban/local/small ag is a feel-good fallacy. There is nothing wrong with wishful thinking and aspirations, we all have harmless beliefs that get into our brains. Some home ag is clearly ridiculous- a $150 machine to grow $0.25 worth of herbs is a gimmick f ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 5 2024 - 8:37am

Glyphosate Impact On Soil Microbes- The 1% Can Worry But Scientists Do Not

Is glyphosate damaging essential microbes in soil? A multi-year study sought to answer the question using real-world conditions. Glyphosate (e.g Roundup) is the most popular weedkiller in the world, and that has made it a target for some disreputable compe ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 29 2024 - 2:30pm

Inconvenient Truth: There Are Synthetic Pesticide Residues On Organic

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Article - Steve Savage - May 31 2024 - 3:15pm

A Boom In Carbon Capture Is Upon Us, But The Impact On Greenhouse Gas Emissions Is Uncertain

Carbon capture and storage (CCS), the process of separating, treating and transporting carbon dioxide (CO ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Jun 24 2024 - 9:01am

European Glyphosate Constituents Aren't From Agriculture, They're From Laundry Detergent

Activists who just happen to take donations from competitors to normal farming- e.g. organic industry trade groups, corporations, and foreign nationals laundering money through offshore donor-advised funds- get paid to claim farming is a problem.(1) ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 29 2024 - 2:42pm

Does Air Quality Cause Postpartum Depression?

New mothers are under a lot of pressure. They are told they have to breastfeed and if they don't, the formula they use may cause their child to have worse grades in school. And if the government shuts down formula factories for no coherent reason and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 18 2024 - 2:33pm

Environmentalists Should Embrace 'eDNA' Technology

Once upon a time, environmentalists embraced biotechnology as key way to reduce pesticide use. Rachel Carson, author of "Silent Spring", was a fan of genetic engineering. That was before we all learned that environmental groups are only 'for ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 24 2024 - 11:49am

Epidemiologists Can Link Weedkillers To Your Prostate Cancer Even If You Were Never Exposed

A recent epidemiology paper links common weedkillers to prostate cancer and further claims four of them cause death.  Obviously they can't show that, there is no plausible biological mechanism, no increase in prostate cancers, and no evidence any of t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 27 2024 - 12:28pm

Climate Shifts May Bring New Apple Growing Areas

Climate has always shifted but concerns about faster changes brought on by the modern world have led the authors of a new paper to worry that current high-volume sources of apples could lose their apex status to other areas. The paper in the pay-to-publish ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2025 - 9:06am

Activists Who Spent 40 Years Blocking Water Projects Now Say They're Unneeded Or They'd Have Been Built

In the midst of wildfires that occur with more severity because environmentalists block responsible logging and tree management in California, environmentalists who have blocked water infrastructure now say we don't need the infrastructure voters pass ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 13 2025 - 4:10pm