Agriculture

First Americans Thrived On Seaweed

Originally Published by New Scientist - Breaking News

Evidence found at the oldest human settlement in the Americas hints that early Americans’ diets included large, healthy portions of seaweed.

Posted on May 10th, 2008
Agriculture, Would You Believe?

Climate Modelers See Modern Echo In ’30s Dust Bowl

Originally Published by Environmental News Network

Finding that man-made dust in the U.S. Plains during the 1930’s helped turn a natural phenomenon into a disaster - the Dust Bowl - climate scientists worry about the threat of similar events in today’s America.

Posted on May 3rd, 2008
Agriculture, Climate, Earth Observation

Farm Animal Industry Must Change, Says Pew Commission

Originally Published by Environment News Service

A new report by the Pew Commission says that as resources become less available in the future, the American farm animal industry will have to change its ways.

Posted on May 2nd, 2008
Agriculture, Biodiversity

Supermarket Trials Carbon Labels

Originally Published by BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition

Tesco announces that a range of its products will carry a label showing the size of the goods’ carbon footprints.

Posted on April 30th, 2008
Agriculture, Economy

Food Miles Don’t Feed Climate Change - Meat Does

Originally Published by New Scientist - Environment

A comprehensive audit of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the food we eat shows that locally-based diets might not be as climate friendly as one would hope.

Posted on April 20th, 2008
Agriculture, Climate

Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?

Originally Published by NY Times - Dot Earth

Andrew Revkin of the New York Times discusses the potential environmental and ethical benefits of meat manufacturing.

Posted on April 13th, 2008
Agriculture, Would You Believe?

Sharp Curb on Salmon Season

Originally Published by NY Times

In the face of a potential collapse of the Chinook salmon run in the Sacramento River, all commercial salmon fishing has been canceled this year from the coast of California to the north-centra Oregon.

Posted on April 12th, 2008
Agriculture, Biodiversity

We’ll Reap What We Sow

Originally Published by Los Angeles Times

The Farm Bill - originally created as a safety net for farmers during the Depression - has transformed into a program in which large agribusiness secures state subsidies.

Posted on April 11th, 2008
Agriculture, Politics

GM Seeds Can “Last For 10 Years”

Originally Published by BBC News | Science/Nature

Swedish researchers have found that some genetically modified plant seeds can persist in the soil for up to ten years, despite intensive efforts in the intervening years to remove genetically modified seeds from plots.

Posted on April 2nd, 2008
Agriculture

Ecuador Sues Colombia to Stop Anti-Coca Herbicide Spray

Originally Published by Environment News Service

The government of Ecuador has filed a lawsuit against the government of Colombia in the International Court of Justice over the latter’s aerial anti-coca spraying in an area bordering the two countries.