Tag: agriculture
Christmas tree shopping is harder than ever, thanks to climate change...
James Robert Farmer, Indiana University
If you’re shopping for a live Christmas tree this year, you may have to search harder than in the past....
Monsanto wins $7.7b lawsuit in Brazil – but farmers’ fight to...
Karine Eliane Peschard, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
A Brazilian appeals court has decided in favor of Monsanto,...
Iowa’s farmers – and American eaters – need a national discussion...
Lisa Schulte Moore, Iowa State University
Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses bring the state a lot of political attention during presidential election cycles. But in my view,...
Ghana’s cocoa farmers are trapped by the chocolate industry
Michael E Odijie, University of Cambridge
The chocolate industry is worth more than $80 billion a year. But some cocoa farmers in parts of West...
Feral pigs harm wildlife and biodiversity as well as crops
Marcus Lashley, Mississippi State University
They go by many names – pigs, hogs, swine, razorbacks – but whatever you call them, feral pigs (Sus scrofa)...
Drilling deeper wells is a band-aid solution to US groundwater woes
Debra Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara and Scott Jasechko, University of California, Santa Barbara
With memories of the wettest U.S. spring on record still...
How your diet contributes to nutrient pollution and dead zones in...
Donald Scavia, University of Michigan
Every year in early summer, scientists at universities, research institutions and federal agencies release forecasts for the formation of “dead...
Climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food supplies
Deepak Ray, University of Minnesota
Farmers are used to dealing with weather, but climate change is making it harder by altering temperature and rainfall patterns,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
