Tag: agriculture
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...
Studying circadian rhythms in plants and their pathogens might lead to...
Hua Lu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Linda Wiratan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
At dusk, the leaves of the tamarind tree close, waiting...
To restore our soils, feed the microbes
Matthew Wallenstein, Colorado State University
Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer.
What...
Court ruling is a first step toward controlling air pollution from...
Martin C. Heller, University of Michigan; JB Ruhl, Vanderbilt University, and Sacoby Wilson, University of Maryland
Editor’s note: Most livestock farming in industrialized...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
