Environment

In a Youtube video that has been viewed more than 25 million times, George Monbiot explains with masterful clarity How Wolves Change Rivers. The short film tells the story of Yellowstone National Park, where wolves were reintroduced in 1995 after an abse ...

Blog Post - Graham Strouts - Feb 6 2025 - 4:11pm

Duckweed Science May Lead To Food That Farms Itself

Duckweed split into different species 59 million years ago, when the climate was more extreme than even the most aggressive climate simulation produced now. A new study, genome sequences for five duckweed species, reveals how duckweed can essentially farm ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2025 - 9:31am

Cover Plants Can Remove Toxic Pesticides Like Copper Sulfate From Soil

For farmers, land is their most valuable asset so they protect it in ways environmentalists do not understand. By using science whenever possible, to reduce water, energy, and environmental strain. Even organic farmers use toxic pesticides but because they ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2025 - 4:31pm

'Public Trust Doctrine'- How Lawyers Use Children To File Climate Change Lawsuits

An ancient legal principle has become a key strategy of American children seeking to reduce the effects of climate change in the 21st century. A defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2025 has not stopped the effort, which has several legal actions con ...

Article - The Conversation - May 4 2025 - 4:30am

Pathogens, Pests And Perils In Global Food Security

In wealthy countries, the richest and the aspirational well-off can afford to pay extra for food only grown using toxic pesticides they are assured are healthy for the planet, but the 99.99999% have to think about affordability. Every time a chemical is re ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2025 - 3:32pm

Apparently The Frog-pocalypse Is Still A Thing

Lost in all of the hype and hysteria and White House panels on how industry is killing bees is the last indicator species that was being doomed by non-organic pesticides: frogs. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 13 2025 - 2:04pm

Pesticides: Environmental Threat Or Anti-Science Populism?

With former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dictating a lot of science policy for the Trump administration, anti-science activists have been quietly cheering even though they uniformly voted for his opposition. They need a wi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 14 2025 - 9:44am

Big Organic Continues To Oppose Food That Uses No Pesticides

I get pitches for stories every day and sometimes I want to see if the world that opposes science has made any progress now that a member of a Republican administration who was formerly one of their own, former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Robe ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 14 2025 - 9:54am

The Way To Finally Make Organic Farming Sustainable Is To Allow Modern Gene Editing

The organic process is neither viable nor sustainable but a new paper would like to change that. By allowing modern gene editing. The only way Europe can reach the goal of 25% Organic™ farmland that its government-funded environmental groups demand, a 250% ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2025 - 4:30am

Meta-Analysis: Flower Strips With Two Or More Species May Reduce Pesticides

A new paper has found that flower strips along fields and ditches may be more than just a gimmick that lets people feel like they are improving the environment or saving bees. They may attract pests that eat pests that eat crops. If so, this could help Eur ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 12 2025 - 8:30am