July 24, 2020 – By Stephanie Hanes, Civil Eats – Incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. Investors say it might also yields profits. More links Agroforestry Is Both Climate Friendly and Profitable
July 23, 2020 – By Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, The Walrus – If you’re paying $1 for lettuce, somebody’s being exploited. So is the environment. More links The Struggles of Sustainable Farming
July 22, 2020 – By Kate Olson, Civil Eats – The Northeast is warming faster than any other region in the contiguous U.S., which means longer, drier summers punctuated by more intense bouts of precipitation. More links Maine Farmers Struggle with New, Harsher Climate Reality
July 19, 2020 – By Sarah Spicer, The Wichita Eagle – To preserve the environment, mitigate climate change and stabilize the U.S. food system, Midwest farmers should diversify their crops and move away from raising corn and soybeans, researchers say. More links Farmers, researchers agree: COVID-19, climate change revealed holes in agriculture system
July 19, 2020 – International Business Times – A new study published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health has found that the extensive use of pesticides and several other agrochemicals can expedite the transmission of a crippling disease known as schistosomiasis. According to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, ecological balances in aquatic environments,
July 13, 2020 – By James Bruggers, Inside Climate News – Trump’s EPA is expected to propose a new rule declaring burning biomass to be carbon neutral, as industry looks to expand its domestic markets. More links The Wood Pellet Business is Booming. Scientists Say That’s Not Good for the Climate.
July 10, 2020 – By Jerrold J. Heindel, Environmental Health News – An article written by a group of 19 toxicologists has been published verbatim in eight toxicology journals in the last four months. More links The dangers of opinion masquerading as fact in science journals: Jerrold J. Heindel
July 6, 2020 – By Damian Carrington, The Guardian – The world is treating the health and economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic but not the environmental cause, according to the authors of a UN report. As a result, a steady stream of diseases can be expected to jump from animals to humans in coming
July 6, 2020 – By Kristin Toussaint, Fast Company – Vermonters can no longer simply toss their food into trash cans. Under a new law that went into effect at the start of the month, residents are now required to compost any unfinished food—including inedible scraps like peels, egg shells, and pits—in their yard or
June 16, 2020 – By Joshua Collins, Sierra – Colombia is about to dust off a controversial weapon from the bloodiest period of the South American nation’s decades-long battle against cocaine production: aerial fumigation of coca fields. The raw ingredient used to make cocaine, coca is illegal to cultivate and has long had a destabilizing
