The prickly pear cactus may not sound like a trendy cash crop, but it could become a phenomenon among farmers on the arid west side of the San Joaquin Valley. The cactus can grow in the west-side's salty soils, drink briny water and live just fine in very dry times.
The nation is clearly tired of Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
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Niggol Seo (Research Fellow, Climate Change Economics, Sydney University) on the Durban Climate Change Conference outcome: "With long odds against a major breakthrough on a global mitigation policy, the Conference took important steps towards the “Green Climate Fund”. …
Monsanto's denial of reality in favor of its bottom line, while a practice now commonplace in corporate America, will have repercussions beyond industrial agriculture.
For years, biotech agriculture opponents have accused regulators of working too closely with big biotech firms when deregulating genetically engineered (GE) crops.
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young: "The draft plan [for the Murray-Darling, Australia's biggest river system] recovers less than 2800 gigalitres for the environment, when independent scientists and other environmental experts say a minimum of 4000 is needed to keep it alive.
Profesro David Karoly (top climate scientist, University of Melbourne) in reviewing geo-engineering possibilities to tackle climate change: "With carbon dioxide emissions tracking at the high end of predictions (and beyond) and the impacts of climate change becoming cleare …
If someone were to tell you that they had a technology — a weed actually — that could sequester huge amounts of carbon permanently while lifting villagers out of poverty by providing both protein-rich food and super-insulated building materials, you might start to …
The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers. He pursued long-held skeptic theories in analyzing the data.
Expectant mothers living in large towns or cities are a third more likely to give birth prematurely because of pollution, research suggests. Traffic fumes are the biggest culprit, with chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), a by-product of petrol, producing a …
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