As Global Warming Makes Crops Impossible, a Shift to Camels
By Jeanne Roberts As climate change alters the African landscape, making some parts of the continent unsuitable for agriculture, raising camels could supplant crops and other livestock in the hardest...
View ArticleViolent Crackdown on Amazon Oil Protest Reverberates Around the World
By Jeanne Roberts There are dates that will live in infamy. June 5, 2009, has become one for the people of the Amazon. That morning, a group of about 2,500 indigenous Peruvians from the Awajún and...
View ArticleClimate Change Will Challenge Farmers as Crop Pests Spread
By Jeanne RobertsThe Midwest's cold winters play an important role for farmers: They prevent devastating crop pests such as corn earworms and corn borers from becoming established in their fields. Corn...
View ArticleRaising the Prairie: The Nation’s First Organic Roof Farm Rises in Chicago
By Jeanne RobertsIn Chicago, where green-roof culture has gone from a fad to a standard, a restaurant roof on Chicago’s north side has acquired the nation’s first designation, by the Midwest Organic...
View ArticleSolving Kenya’s Food Crisis, One Indigenous Crop at a Time
By Jeanne Roberts In Kenya, persistent drought is threatening food security for some 31.5 million people, and more than one million face imminent starvation. Kenya’s government, looking for about $525...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Composting Ordinance Turns Waste into Wine
By Jeanne Roberts Starting next week, food-waste recycling will be mandatory in San Francisco. No more banana peels and uneaten Brussels sprouts entombed in plastic in a landfill — they'll now be...
View ArticleDisaster Displacement Driving Millions into Exile
By Jeanne Roberts In 2008 alone, at least 36 million people were displaced by sudden-onset natural disasters, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, IDMC. Of those disasters, more...
View ArticleClosing America's Climate Gap Between Rich and Poor
By Jeanne Roberts The gap between rich and poor as a result of mitigating climate change could become overwhelming if policymakers aren’t careful to evaluate the steps needed to ensure both...
View ArticleBy Cell Phone, Scientists Assist African Farmers Facing Effects of Climate...
By Jeanne Roberts For much of the last 200 years, levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide hovered around 275 parts per million. In this century, with atmospheric carbon dioxide nearing 390 ppm, and...
View ArticleBiofuels: Hope or Hype?
By Jeanne Roberts The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicated this week that it is leaning toward increasing the biofuel "blend wall," the amount of ethanol allowed to be added to gasoline. It's...
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