Tag: agriculture
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...
Farmers are drawing groundwater from the giant Ogallala Aquifer faster than...
Char Miller, Pomona College
Every summer the U.S. Central Plains go dry, leading farmers to tap into groundwater to irrigate sorghum, soy, cotton, wheat and...
American farmers want trade partners not handouts – an agricultural economist...
Amanda M. Countryman, Colorado State University
The Trump administration plans to give American farmers and ranchers hurt by the current trade war US$12 billion in...
Rock ‘n’ roll is noise pollution – with ecological implications that...
Brandon Barton, Mississippi State University
Despite being one of the best-selling albums of all time, ideology from AC/DC’s “Back in Black” album has gone unchallenged...
Rural Americans’ struggles against factory farm pollution find traction in court
Sacoby Wilson, University of Maryland
As U.S. livestock farming becomes more industrial, it is changing rural life. Many people now live near Concentrated Animal Feeding...
EXPLORING NATURE
New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
Advik D. Vira, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emily First, Macalester College
The Earth and the Moon may look...
