Environment

Are you worried that genetically modified corn will imperil the earth and ruin your organic sticker status if the air blows toward your fields? Horticulturalists have a solution; let science grow…

The most important fertilizer for producing food is nitrogen. But, as is obvious with any fertilizer or pesticide or anything else, the dose makes the poison. DDT became a problem when it was used…

Pollution is bad, right? To some animals, it's home. Thousands of shipping containers are lost from cargo vessels each year and many of them sink, never to be found again.  In February 2004, the…

The Kelp Watch 2014 collaboration has some good news - the West Coast shoreline shows no signs of ocean-borne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. Kelp Watch 2014 uses…

A paper by The Environmental Justice and Health Alliance (EJHA), Center for Effective Government (CEG) and Coming Clean, links higher poverty to many Black and Latino communities living within…

Corn yields in the central United States have increased dramatically in the last few decades - but they have also become more sensitive to drought conditions. Maximizing crop yields has been a…

The Federal Trade Commission Friday approved a final order prohibiting a Washington-based plastic bag manufacturer from making false biodegradability claims about its products. American Plastic…

In a Twitter age, one where mainstream media desperately needs to keep people watching and reading, every event is magnified. A tropical storm that hit New York City was transformed into a Superstorm…

North Carolina farmers and landowners are participating in program to grow giant miscanthus grass for renewable products using underutilized and marginal land. Giant miscanthus grass is a rapidly…

If you really care about the climate, you can stop filling out surveys and complaining about what people believe and do something more meaningful than buy carbon credits - you can give up meat.…