Environment

Legumes: How To Minimize Drought Impact On Important Food Crops

The worldwide demand for legumes, one of the world's most important agricultural food crops, is growing; at the same time, their production has been adversely affected by drought. In an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis research paper ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2015 - 8:30am

Biodiversity Reduces Human, Wildlife Diseases And Crop Pests

With infectious diseases increasing worldwide, the need to understand how and why disease outbreaks occur is becoming increasingly important. Looking for answers, a team of biologists found broad evidence that supports the controversial 'dilution eff ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2015 - 11:00am

Genetically Engineered Golf: How Science Is Helping Reduce Water Use

By Katharine, Gammon, Inside Science-- In California’s current historic drought, there’s one particularly easy target when it comes to pointing fingers: green golf courses. Courses around the U.S. suck up around approximately 2.08 billion gallons of water ...

Article - Katharine Gammon - Jul 6 2015 - 11:15am

Tillamook Bay Floodplain Restoration Plan Would Reduce Flood Risk And Restores Salmon Habitat

Salmon are severely impacted by the loss of floodplain habitats near Oregon's Tillamook Bay, where nearly 90 percent of estuaries' tidal wetlands have been lost to development-- threatening the survival of coho salmon and the safety of the local ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2015 - 7:36am

Rumors Of Southern Pine Deaths Have Been Exaggerated

Researchers at the University of Georgia have a message for Southern tree farmers worried about unexplainable pine tree deaths: Don't panic. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2015 - 8:30am

Previous Claims Of Interbreeding Due To Climate Change Exaggerated

One of the questions raised by the prospect of climate change is whether it could cause more species of animals to interbreed. Two species of flying squirrel have already produced mixed offspring and those have somehow been blamed on climate change, along ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2015 - 8:00am

Not Pesticides, Climate Change Is Putting The Squeeze On Bumblebees

Though pesticides are getting all of the attention from environmental groups when it comes to concern about bees, the science community instead knows it is mites and climate- were it as simple as pesticides, places like Australia and the United States, wh ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2015 - 7:09pm

Environmental Impact Quotient: Weaknesses And A Better Solution

I’ve always been interested in how changes in agricultural production practices impact the environment. In particular, I’ve followed the adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops since I was an undergraduate, and try to stay up to date on research relat ...

Article - Andrew R. Kniss - Jul 13 2015 - 11:59am

To Save Animals, Put More Humans On Birth Control

Conservationists tend to spend their time worrying about protecting forests, catching poachers or keeping carbon out of the atmosphere. But all these things (and more) are driven by humans. Given that it’s easier and cheaper to reduce the human birth rate ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 16 2015 - 2:41pm

Neonicotinoids And The Beepocalypse That Never Was

Like the fictional parents in the edgy comedy show South Park who blame Canada for all of their woes, environmentalists often coalesce around ...

Article - Jon Entine - Jul 26 2015 - 5:38am