Tag: climate change
US livestock and climate change: Searching for truth
Editor Susan Crowell takes a look at climate change and livestock emissions: fact and fiction. There are best practices from the US that would help other nations become more sustainable.
Whole lot of shaking going on
What will it take for politicians to publicly recognize free trade agreements as mostly illusion or climate change as a reality? Maybe an earthquake.
Eliminating GMOs would raise food prices
If there was a ban on GMO crops in the US, consumers could expect food prices to rise 1-2 percent per year, and an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
Changing climate continues to affect agriculture
The warm fall and winter is affecting us all.
Science can mean different things
Depending on the group of people, science and facts can mean different things.
Amplified greenhouse effect shifts northern growing seasons
According to a recent NASA-funded study, higher northern latitudes are getting warmer and the growing season is getting longer.
Should we worry about pollinators? 19th century research sheds light on...
Are plant-pollinator networks holding together as the insects and plants in the network are jostled by climate change and habitat loss?
Climate change and agriculture: What’s real and what matters?
Unusual weather the past couple years has renewed interest in climate talks.
Extreme heat raises climate change questions, concerns
MADISON, Wis. -- The recent heat wave baking much of the country has prompted many people to ask: Is this due to climate change?
Climate change not likely to harm crops, expert explains
HONOLULU -- Record yields for staple crops in the U.S. and globally in recent years seem to contradict fears that agriculture will be negatively affected by increasing climate temperatures, according to a senior fellow for the Heartland Institute.
