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‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: 4 essential reads on pesticides and...

Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that...

The herbicide dicamba was supposed to solve farmers’ weed problems –...

Bart Elmore, The Ohio State University In October 2021 I was a guest on a popular podcast to discuss...

While debate rages over glyphosate-based herbicides, farmers are spraying them all...

Marion Werner, University at Buffalo; Annie Shattuck, Indiana University, and Ryan Galt, University of California, Davis As North America...

How to manage plant pests and diseases in your victory garden

Matt Kasson, West Virginia University; Brian Lovett, West Virginia University, and Carolee Bull, Pennsylvania State University Home gardening is having a boom year across the...

EXPLORING NATURE

How climate finance to help poor countries became a global shell...

Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences When Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean in October...
A fisherman looks at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia, in 2023. Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images

Can the world quit coal?