Biologists Warn 3 Pesticides Harm Salmon
Three common agricultural pesticides carbaryl, carbofuran and methomyl are jeopardizing the survival of salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest. Federal biologists warn these pesticides can...
View ArticleAncient Tigris Valley May be Saved from Dam if Declared World Heritage Site
The ancient city of Hasankeyf is located along the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey. It is one of the Earth’s oldest currently inhabited towns dating back 10,000 years. There are more than 300...
View ArticleMore Climate Change Refugees Due to Changing Water Conditions
What do Togo, Germany, Mexico and Papua New Guinea have in common? Climate change refugees. Changing water cycles and weather patterns are forcing thousands to relocate around the world. I’ve written...
View ArticleAtrazine in Tap Water Chemically Castrates Frogs
Atrazine is a common herbicide used in agriculture around the world for 50 years. The National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) found atrazine present in “75 percent of stream water and about 40...
View ArticleTurkish Farmers Learn to Cut Water Use Up to 50%
About 72% of total water use in Turkey is for agriculture. This 72% is important when the country’s largest city, Istanbul, can be out of running water for days at a time in the summer. “We have to...
View ArticleDo We Have Enough Water?
As our world population skyrockets, the question of whether we'll have enough water to support the agriculture needed to feed the world is a huge one. A recent study has some good news! The post Do We...
View ArticleDrought Solutions: Rainwater Harvesting in Africa
In the horn of Africa, drought has been a way of life for decades. Lack of water makes it nearly impossible to grow food in many areas, and children in the area suffer from malnutrition. In this video,...
View ArticlePeak Water
All over the world, usable fresh water supplies are shrinking. Less and less water is available for agriculture, in other words, the food we eat. However, agriculture is often the lowest priority when...
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Water Proof: the History and Future of Water Conservation
For the developed world, water is a seemingly ubiquitous resource. Many Americans often take it for granted. Submerged in a culture of excess, it’s often difficult to keep one’s head above the waste.
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Full Planet, Empty Plates, Chapter 7. Grain Yields Starting to Plateau
Editor’s note: We’re proud to support the Earth Policy Institute’s online publication of Lester Brown’s most recent book Full Planet, Empty Plates by publishing selections from the book.
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Harvesting Justice 23: Inherit the Earth – Land Reform in Brazil
In recent years, the voice and visibility of movements opposing land grabs and displacement, and demanding land reform, are increasing. Though relatively little land has been redistributed, organized...
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Harvesting Justice 24: We Don’t Have Life without Land – Holding Ground in...
Consuelo Castillo, a community organizer in Lempira, a land reform settlement in Bajo Aguán, Honduras, said, “Our goal is for everyone who is part of the land occupations to have access to land. Land...
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Harvesting Justice 25: Without Our Land, We Cease To Be a People – Defending...
A Garífuna ceremony on lands stolen by organized crime networks in Honduras. Courtesy of OFRANEH. By Tory Field and Beverly Bell Part 25 in the
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Harvesting Justice 26: "They Fear Us Because We’re Fearless"– Reclaiming...
Multinational corporations are moving into Central America to exploit gold and other minerals, rivers, forests, and agricultural lands. One area of high interest in the corporate feeding frenzy is the...
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Harvesting Justice 27: The Ancestral Values We Inherited – Protecting...
"Within our indigenous community of Xoxocotla, we continue to hold the ancestral values we inherited. It never crosses our mind to leave them behind. Because in daily life we are always in contact...
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Harvesting Justice 28: Defending Indigenous Land & Water in Honduras – the...
On September 12, Berta Caceres, Tomás Gomez, and Aureliano Molina, leaders of the indigenous Lenca organization Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) must appear in...
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Hydroponic Gardening Made Easy: Sustainable Microfarms’ Automated Controller...
Now that I’ve been sufficiently (but nicely) schooled in the sustainability of hydroponic food production, I’ve become fascinated by the method, and try to keep on top of it.
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Healthy Soil: a Human Right? #BAD13
Human rights assume an individual's ability to take advantage of them... which is difficult if you're hungry. So, for this year's Blog Action Day, we're thinking about soil health, which we think is...
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10 Things to Know About Food on World Food Day
Today is World Food Day. It offers the opportunity to strengthen national and international solidarity in the fight to end hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. With falling water tables, eroding soils,...
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Soybeans: Factory Farming and the Destruction of Lands and Lives in Argentina
Jonty Whittleton, campaigner at Compassion in World Farming, recounts the time he spent with communities in Argentina, where the ‘Big Soy’ boom is ruining lands and lives - and it’s all in the pursuit...
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