Environment

Honey Bee Colonies Had A Worse Than Average Winter- But Don't Buy Hype About It

The number of honey bee colonies fell by nearly 12% last winter- according to a preliminary look at a survey of beekeepers, that is. The UK and Spain were worst affected this year. The prior year, other areas of Europe were hardest hit.  While environment ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2016 - 11:34am

Laundry Adds Trade Amounts Of Flame Retardants To Surface Waters- Here's How

In recent years, litigation attorneys and environmental epidemiologists have attempted to link flame retardants, which were put in furniture and electronics to prevent immolation by national mandate, to health problems. Studies have shown that the substan ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2016 - 11:17am

How Plant Leaves Grow Their Teeth

A peptide and its receptors work to regulate auxin response and control leaf tooth growth in plants. The plant hormone auxin has been known to take part in the development of leaf teeth, but the exact mechanism of their formation has been a mystery up til ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2016 - 9:01pm

Puzzle: What's Gene Edited To Be Drought Resistant But Not A GMO? Corn

With GMOs going off patent, anti-science activists and the PR groups running interference for them (such as US Right To Know and Sourcewatch) are running out of time to use one of the arguments they love most to disguise the fact that they hate science; th ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 19 2016 - 9:01am

Feedback on the Forest Garden

My last post dealt with the permaculture edible forest garden, and it received some commentary on a couple of Facebook groups and permaculture forums. A lot of the responses were, predictably, from permaculture advocates who took umbrage at my having deig ...

Blog Post - Graham Strouts - Sep 21 2016 - 4:33pm

Bialowiezça: the Myth of the Primeval Forest

Over the past few weeks there have a been a series of reports raising concerns about the felling of old-growth trees in the ancient Bialowiezça forest in eastern Poland. A recent piece in the Guardian begins ...

Blog Post - Graham Strouts - Sep 22 2016 - 4:44am

The Cost of Australia’s GM Canola Moratorium

Substantial environment impacts due to rejection of GM canola ...

Blog Post - Stuart Smyth - Sep 26 2016 - 3:56pm

Rogue Environmentalism: How Environmental Defense Fund Hijacked American Fishing, Using Walmart Funding

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), one of the nation's largest environmental groups, which has been bankrolled with $50 million from the heirs to the Walmart fortune, has spent millions of dollars pushing a wholesale change in how the U.S. manages its ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2016 - 2:42pm

Petri Nets Tool Wins Innovation Prize At Agriculture Conference

A mathematical model that assists in decision-making at a facility devoted to the cultivation and production of the common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) has received the prize for the best scientific contribution during the 2nd International Food Operation ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2016 - 11:00am

President Elect Trump- Why Climate Change Is No Longer A Political Issue Outside The US

Donald Trump has just been elected as US president, as a Republican climate skeptic. So if you are from the US you may get the impression that this is a political debate between “lefties” who think climate change is real and “righties” who think it isn’t. ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 26 2018 - 3:50am