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As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from...
Two state farms were reprimanded for unsafe levels of antibiotics in animals. Maybe Two Minnesota cows that could have ended up on a dinner plate were pulled from slaughter lines after federal inspectors discovered dangerously...
waves that are sent out into the water. The farther the sound waves travel, the more they fan out into a cone shape and increase in diameter. Deeper water naturally causes the cone to fan out as it travels from it's origin....
When a Philadelphia animal-welfare activist heard that nearly 400 Lancaster County dogs had been trucked to an auction in Ohio last month, he saw it as a chance to call attention to animal abuse in Pennsylvania.
Janice and Matthew Dick wasted no time reintroducing their turkeys to pasture after the Turkey Farmers of Ontario announced it would exempt organic turkeys from a rule requiring they be raised under a solid roof.
PAUCARÁ, Peru, Nov 21 (IPS) - As if he were showing off a treasure, Dionicio Sarmiento holds up his seed potatoes with a smile. "Look how nice they are, all ready to plant. It'll be a good harvest," says the peasant farmer from...
Recently, the Executive Yuan in Taiwan has passed a bill in favor of Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) fourth stage expansion. Th...
Maryland farmers encouraged to cut nutrient runoff into bay SUDLERSVILLE — - Schmidt and other Maryland farmers have been in a race with the weather lately - trying to get the last of their fall crops harvested and their fields...
Updated Friday, November 20, 2009 ; 05:08 PM The Mountain State is the third-most forested state in the U.S. and some say it could be a prime source of energy. “That’s a big advantage we have in this state: We have a lot of...
Pumpkin farmer John Ackerman walks through a neighbor's waterlogged pumpkin field in Washington Township, Ill., while discussing the difficulties of this year's harvest. Nestle - which sells nearly all the canned pumpkin in the...
