Environment

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

Wolves in the backyard

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