Tag: agriculture
The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
Jim Ippolito, Colorado State University and Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State University
As devastating images of the 2019 Midwest floods fade from view, an insidious and...
How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities
Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
During the partial federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019, news reports showed furloughed government workers standing in...
Reclaiming lost calories: Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yields
Amanda Cavanagh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What if your ability to feed yourself was dependent on a process that made a mistake 20 percent...
Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for...
Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for their bottom lin
Joanne Burgess, Colorado State University and Edward Barbier, Colorado State University
In...
The Amish live simply, but don’t confuse them with environmentalists
David McConnell, The College of Wooster and Marilyn Loveless, The College of Wooster
In recent decades, many popular myths about the Amish – that they...
Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing...
Frank M. Mitloehner, University of California, Davis
As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action....
Helping farmers in distress doesn’t help them be the best: the...
Neal Hughes, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) and Steve Hatfield-Dodds, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences...
How is ‘new NAFTA’ different? A trade expert explains
Amanda M. Countryman, Colorado State University
On Sept. 30, the U.S., Canada and Mexico reached a deal to scrap NAFTA and replace it with a...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
