Tag: agriculture
Crop insurance is good for farmers, but not always for the...
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julian Reif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Tatyana Deryugina,...
Why it’s time to curb widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides
John F. Tooker, Pennsylvania State University
Planting season for corn and soybeans across the U.S. corn belt is drawing to a close. As they plant,...
Climate change will make rice less nutritious, putting millions of the...
Kristie Ebi, University of Washington
Rice is the primary food source for more than 3 billion people around the world. Many are unable to afford...
Would Rachel Carson eat organic?
Robert Paarlberg, Harvard University
Rachel Carson, who was born on May 27, 1907, and launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,”...
Farmers and cropdusting pilots on the Great Plains worried about pesticide...
David Vail, University of Nebraska – Kearney
It is easy to frame conservation as a clash between environmentalists and polluters. But this view can greatly...
These CRISPR-modified crops don’t count as GMOs
Yi Li, University of Connecticut
To feed the burgeoning human population, it is vital that the world figures out ways to boost food production.
Increasing...
Healthy to eat, unhealthy to grow: Strawberries embody the contradictions of...
Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz
Agricultural abundance is a pillar of the California dream. In 2016 the state turned out more than US$45...
In growing algae for biofuels, it matters who used the water...
Sarah Loftus, Duke University
Health food enthusiasts routinely shell out over US$30 per pound for dried algae powder to whip up green smoothies to fuel...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
