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Report: agriculture runoff is leading cause of water pollution in the …
WEBMar 20, 2022 · Last week, water experts marked the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act with a dire warning: After evaluating over 700,000 miles of rivers and streams across the country, they concluded that half of those waters are too polluted to fish or swim in—and agriculture is often to blame.
Back Forty: Marion Nestle’s life in science, food politics
WEBBy Samuel Fromartz. I’ve followed Marion Nestle’s work for two decades now. Her seminal book, Food Politics, was published in 2002 and laid the groundwork for a lot of food writing that followed — notably in journalism.But while I was familiar with her work, I didn’t know her personal story, which she writes about in her recently published memoir Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food ...
On average, U.S. farmers are aging, but a quarter of them are …
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Study: Nearly 400,000 Californians lack safe drinking water, often …
WEBJan 12, 2022 · Drinking water for more than 370,000 Californians is contaminated with arsenic, nitrate, and other chemicals, according to an extensive analysis by researchers at UC Berkeley and UCLA. In many cases, the state’s agricultural industry is to blame.
Who should profit from Mexico’s nitrogen-fixing corn?
WEBJul 16, 2019 · Totontepec is a small town high in the misty mountains of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. It is a four-hour drive, full of hairpin turns and panoramic views, from the state capital of Oaxaca city. Totontepec overlooks Zempoaltepetl Mountain, the highest point in the state and a sacred site for the Mixe, who number an estimated 119,000 people.
The battle to control America’s ‘most destructive’ species: feral pigs
WEBMar 26, 2021 · A layer of frost clings to the grass on the morning Anthony DeNicola sets out to check his trap. It’s late January in South Carolina. The sun is rising, the fog is lifting, and the frogs are croaking from somewhere in the dark loblolly pines.
Report: Fertilizer responsible for more than 20 percent of total ...
WEBNov 1, 2021 · As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) gets underway in Glasgow, a new report finds that synthetic nitrogen fertilizers are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought, outpacing even the commercial aviation industry. The report, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Greenpeace and GRAIN, urges a swift transition toward more sustainable food ...
Hot Farm | Food and Environment Reporting Network
WEBHot Farm Trailer. By Eve Abrams, March 15, 2022. Over four episodes, Hot Farm from the Food & Environment Reporting Network tells the stories of farmers who are experimenting with ways to use less water and chemicals, protect their soil and use renewable energy—as well as those who still need to be convinced that climate change is a man-made ...
Epic floods in Pacific Northwest revive long-running dispute over …
WEBJan 31, 2022 · A river in ‘grave danger’ The November flood turned Washington’s Lummi Indian Reservation into a swampy island. “It was the worst flooding that I’ve seen,” Lisa Wilson, a Lummi Nation Council member, told me in a call from her car between meetings.
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