Environment

Cute, clever, incorrect. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations's Forest Resource Assessment for 2005 used the word "alarming" 20 times to describe the trend lines for def ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Feb 8 2015 - 2:29pm

USDA Approves Nonbrowning Arctic Apples

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced approval of the first two nonbrowning apple varieties, Arctic Golden and Arctic Granny apples. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2015 - 12:14pm

Natural Disturbances: Climate Change May Cause Loss Of Ice Dynamics In Streams

Winter floods are important natural 'disturbances' for maintaining species-rich riparian zones along northern watercourses. Movies like The Day After Tomorrow and An Inconvenient Truth exaggerated some of the big effects of a climate gone crazy b ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2015 - 1:25pm

Rural China's Unsustainable Ecological Decline

The agricultural development of the Lower Yangtze River Basin around Nanjing and Shanghai is ecologically unsustainable and actions are needed soon to reverse its decline, according to a new study. The region has been in environmental decline since it pass ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2015 - 12:18pm

A Beepocalypse Could Still Happen- But Due To Climate Change

In 2006, a somewhat common yet unpredictable decline in bees occurred, just as had happened in previous decades and leading back as long as anecdotal records have been kept. While scientists tried to determine the cause, various constituents rushed to lay ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2015 - 10:36am

B.C. Tribes Blocked A Pipeline, So They Got More Rail Shipments Of Oil

Northern British Columbia's First Nation leaders repeatedly rejected the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines from Alberta and so oil companies are shipping more oil by rail, which requires no new approval, and is inherently more environmental ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 19 2015 - 5:36pm

Entzia And Miren- Two New Potato Varieties

Potatoes are an essential food for humans and now two new varieties produced by the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development have been added to the Registry of Commercial Varieties. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2015 - 4:32pm

Infectious Diseases Are Big Risk To Wild Bees

Researchers have discovered that a network of viruses usually associated with managed honeybees pose a widespread risk to bumblebees in the wild also. The study revealed multiple interconnected diseases that are threatening several species of bumblebee an ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2015 - 11:54am

Restoring Wetlands Can Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions

In climate accounting, what is counted and not counted is important. Former wetlands that have been drained and which are currently used for forestry and agriculture give off 11.4 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, which is virtual CO2 for climat ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2015 - 8:30am

Why Organic Can't Fulfill Our Food Supply Ideals