Tag: farming
The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square...
Can artisanal weed compete with ‘Big Marijuana’?
Ryan Stoa, Concordia University School of Law
You’ve heard of Big Pharma and Big Tobacco. How about Big Marijuana?
The drug’s growing legalization is raising...
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...
Cheap milk is a global phenomenon – so don’t blame the...
John Lingard, Newcastle University
British dairy farmers are once again protesting over the low prices on offer for their milk. They worry that too many...
Direct Action could deliver a useful outcome: carbon trading
By Alan Pears AM, RMIT University
There’s little point in getting too excited just yet about the details of Direct Action and its merits (or...
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...
