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Study: Enel, NREL partner on three-year solar vegetation study
This article discusses a 3-year study getting underway to look at how farming and solar energy farms can co-exist.
By doing the research, the partners hope to discover how solar and plant life interact and find effective ways for solar arrays and agricultural lands to co-exist.
It’s long been […]
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What Does Climate Change Mean for Vermont’s Maple Sugarers?
This article describes the impact climate change is having on maple syrup. For an industry that measures time in generations, and works with centuries-old trees, the rapid warming of the planet makes for an uncertain future.
Some studies point to long-term threats to the trees as well. In January, the journal Ecologypublished the […]
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More research on ocean warming in Gulf of Maine is needed
This article discusses the waking up of US Senators Susan Collins and Angus King about climate change. They have urged the federal government to improve efforts to understand the causes and effects of the rapid warming of the Gulf of Maine, which threatens to disrupt Maine’s traditional fisheries and […]
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Climate change: Coping with extremes
This article discusses the extreme weather conditions occurring because of climate change. We travel to southern Kenya and Myanmar to see how locals are coping with extreme weather conditions. Rising global temperatures have been linked to changing weather patterns. Drought, storms, wildfires – extreme weather have recently become the […]
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Learning to Speak Shrub
This is an interesting article that discusses how plants are trying to cope with climate change.
Entomologist Richard Karban knows how to get sagebrush talking. To start the conversation, he poses as a grasshopper or a chewing beetle—he uses scissors to cut leaves on one of the shrubs. Lopping off the leaves […]
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Analysis: Pessimism on the food front – climate change & overpopulation
This article discusses the impact that climate change is having on food production. Legendary scientists weigh in on converging crises threatening future food security.
Virtually all trends, biophysical and socioeconomic, suggest that levels of hunger, already high, will only increase as the human population grows and its life-support […]
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Precarious Life of Texas Farmworkers Becomes Riskier with Global Warming
This article discusses the impact on farm workers from warming climate. Increasing heat, drought and mosquito-borne diseases make this work more dangerous.
As climate change intensifies heat waves and drought and helps spread diseases carried by mosquitoes, the life of a farmworker in this fertile part of Texas is getting harder […]
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Study: Climate change could alter ocean food chains, leading to far fewer fish
This article discusses the impact that climate change is having on the oceans and marine life.
Climate change is rapidly warming the Earth and altering ecosystems on land and at sea that produce our food. In the oceans, most added heat from climate warming is still near the surface and […]
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Can Responsible Grazing Make Beef Climate-Neutral?
This article discusses the impact raising beef is having on GHG emissions. New research found that the greenhouse gases sequestered in one grass-fed system balanced out those emitted by the cows, but some meatless advocates are skeptical.
There’s no denying Americans eat a lot of meat. In fact, the average U.S. […]
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Adding Crushed Volcanic Rock & Farm Soil Boosts Crops and Slows Global Warming
This article discusses how adding crushed volcanic rock to soil can improve crop yield and slow down climate change. Planet-warming carbon dioxide could be absorbed using ‘enhanced rock weathering,’ a natural process sped up to fight climate change.
Pulverizing volcanic rock and spreading the dust like fertilizer on farm soils could […]
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