Agriculture

Originally Published by ScienceDaily - Having natural habitat in farming areas that supports ladybugs could help increase their abundance in crops where they control pests and help farmers reduce their costs, says a new study.

Posted on May 13th, 2012
Agriculture, Biodiversity

Drought Hits Spain’s Wheat Crop

- Wheat production is poised to drop 20 percent after a dry winter.

Posted on May 12th, 2012
Agriculture, Earth Observation, Weather

To Kick Climate Change, Replace Corn With Pastured Beef

- A study by Stanford University and Purdue University researchers looks at how America's vast annual corn crop will likely fare as the climate warms up over the next 30 years.

Posted on April 30th, 2012
Agriculture, Climate

Considerations of Climate and Society in Asia: Farmers in Indonesia

A report on work in Indonesia to build a rural response to climate change. Farmers in places like Indramayu, coastal West Java, must find more answers to increasing rainfall variability. A companion paper to "What Climate Change Means for Farmers in Asia.”

Stigter and Winarto, posted on April 17th, 2012
Agriculture, Articles, Climate Consensus

The Folly of Big Agriculture: Why Nature Always Wins

- Large-scale industrial agriculture depends on engineering the land to ensure the absence of natural diversity.

Posted on April 17th, 2012
Agriculture

Frogs May See Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide As a Predator

Originally Published by Mother Jones - The surfactant in the popular pesticide Roundup appears to cause tadpoles to change shape.

Posted on April 7th, 2012
Agriculture, Biodiversity

Fertilizer Use Responsible for Increase in Nitrous Oxide in Atmosphere

- Chemists have found a smoking gun proving that increased fertilizer use over the past 50 years is responsible for a dramatic rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide - a major greenhouse gas.

Posted on April 7th, 2012
Agriculture, Climate

The truth about pesticides and bees

- It is always a dilemma for a newspaper to tell a complicated story such as that about bees and pesticides.

Posted on April 5th, 2012
Agriculture, Health

What Climate Change Means for Farmers in Asia

What are the most important consequences that Indonesian and other Asian farmers face because of increasing climate variability and climate change? The first of two papers on climate and society in Asia.