Tag: fertilizer
Fertilizer prices are soaring – and that’s an opportunity to promote...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices...
Why is lettuce so expensive? Costs have shot up, and won’t...
Flavio Macau, Edith Cowan University
Lettuce prices are skyrocketing. Twitter users are posting photos of iceberg lettuces for A$10...
Unlike the US, Europe is setting ambitious targets for producing more...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
President Joe Biden has called for an all-of-government response to climate change that looks...
Water being pumped into Tampa Bay could cause a massive algae...
Larry Brand, University of Miami
Millions of gallons of water laced with fertilizer ingredients are being pumped into Florida’s...
To help insects, make them welcome in your garden – here’s...
Brian Lovett, West Virginia University
As winter phases into spring across the U.S., gardeners are laying in supplies and...
A few heavy storms cause a big chunk of nitrogen pollution...
Chaoqun Lu, Iowa State University
Some effects of extreme weather are visible – like half a million acres of flattened corn in Iowa left behind...
Wastewater is an asset – it contains nutrients, energy and precious...
Yalin Li, Colorado School of Mines
Most people think as little as possible about the wastewater that is produced daily from their showers, bathtubs, sinks,...
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,”...
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...
