Environment

A Reason For More Farmed Salmon: 48 Million Wild Fish Per Year Just In Two Alaska Areas

A new analysis used Alaska Department of Fish and Game data and fish estimates from 2007 to 2016 to quantify the number and value of Pacific salmon harvested from streams, rivers, and lakes in Alaska. They estimate that it's 48,000,000 fish per year, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2020 - 1:28pm

The Lack Of A Corporate Parent Will Doom Golden Rice, Say Critics

In the early days of the environmental war on agriculture, activists claimed they were not against the science itself, they were anti- corporate. They didn't want a company in charge of the food supply. The argument resonated with a lot of people, inc ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 11 2020 - 7:31am

10 Ways That We Already Reduce Food Waste (1 To 5)

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Article - Steve Savage - Feb 12 2020 - 9:52pm

How More Grocery Stores Could Reduce Food Waste

An article in Manufacturing&Service Operations Management says that an increase in the number of stores directly decreases consumer waste. The reason is improved access to groceries which would men better distribution of inventory and price competitio ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2020 - 8:31am

If The American West Moves East, It May Not Be Taxes, It May Be Water

After the 2020 census, it is expected that California will lose a seat in Congress and Texas will gain it. Texans tout greater personal freedom and lower taxes but a new study says it may be water. California is mostly desert and gets the bulk of its water ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2020 - 7:00am

EPA Refuted A Meta-Analysis Claiming Glyphosate Can Cause Cancer And Senior Author Lianne Sheppard Doubled Down

A controversial February 2019 meta-analysis, a reanalysis of the most recent epidemiological data on glyphosate and cancer, suggested there was “a compelling link” between exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), a cancer t ...

Article - Geoffrey Kabat - Feb 26 2020 - 8:01am

The Benefits Of Coronavirus For The Health Of The Planet

A new sickness, COVID-19 known as Coronavirus 2019, has become one of the most worrying problems on the planet these days. Certainly, it could be a serious thing in many aspects, especially for the people who become infected and, consequently, for the hea ...

Article - Martín López Corr... - Mar 15 2020 - 6:41pm

Reduced Till Organic Soybeans Could Be Viable, But Prices Need To Be At Least 10% Higher

Assuming the organic manufacturing process is able to sustain premium pricing levels. organic soybean producers using reduced-tillage production methods can achieve similar revenue, finds an ongoing experiment. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 1 2020 - 1:59pm

Free Trade Has Created Greater Food System Sustainability- Lack Of Farmers Puts Wealthy Countries At Risk

The locally grown effort was always fine for people fortunate enough to be born into agriculturally rich areas but for everyone else it historically meant famine, poor diets, or high costs. Modern agriculture and free markets changed all that. A new study ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2020 - 8:33am

The Supreme Court Could Make The Endangered Species Act The Most Powerful Law In America- By Doing Nothing

The definition of "endangered" is vague but in no dictionary does it mean an animal that does not even live in a state must be placed there, with private landowners footing the bill for $20 million, in order to keep a creature from declining in ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2020 - 12:01pm