Environment
- Pesticides: Environmental Threat Or Anti-Science Populism?
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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
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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
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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
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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
- Europe Ponders Another Year Trying To Combat Fall Armyworm Without Modern Pesticides
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The polyphagous Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm), a Lepidopteran pest, has European farmers in a panic and, when the environmental NGOs government funds are not around, it has politicians concerned also. Though classified as a priority pest since 202 ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 23 2025 - 10:26am
- California Wildfires Linked To Suicide And Harms From PM10
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California has an environmental problem. The state is overwhelmingly desert and rain is scarce for 10 months out of the year. Water instead arrives from the mountains. Yet the state legislature and government are allied with environmentalists. They want da ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 6 2025 - 1:55pm
- USDA Results Show Science Can Feed The World If Governments Get Out Of The Way
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Until the 1980s, the modern-day Malthus acolytes like Drs. Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren predicted Population Bombs and advocated for government-mandated sterilization and abortion to prevent it.(1) Science didn't buy into the doomsday narrative and t ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 12 2025 - 2:27pm
- How European Forests May Look By The Year 2100
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A new computer simulation says that climate change may may ruin the tall beech trees common in Europe. Unfortunately, many other simulations already said it was too late to curb runaway emissions by India and China as of 2016. For the last 2,000 years, the ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2025 - 9:57am
- Humans Made California Wildfires More Dangerous, Though Not With Emissions
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A new call to action by ecologists uses a numerical model to note that wildfires in places like California have been made worse by humans. That doesn't mean it is human emissions. For decades, California government has banned logging. They let people ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 18 2025 - 4:31am
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