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CALLOWAY COUNTY, Ky. (OVR) -- Many people might think of Blake Munger as a cattle farmer as he walks through his pasture land in western Kentucky, but he sees things a little differently nowadays.

Keeping More Ammonium In Soil Could Decrease Pollution, Boost Crops Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing human population and how to minimize environmental damage associated with intensive agriculture. Keeping more nitrogen in soil as ammonium may be one key way to address both challenges, according to a new paper(link is external) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Today’s use of nitrogen fertilizers contr...

Keeping More Ammonium In Soil Could Decrease Pollution, Boost Crops Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing human population and how to minimize environmental damage associated with intensive agriculture. Keeping more nitrogen in soil as ammonium may be one key way to address both challenges, according to a new paper(link is external) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Today’s use of nitrogen fertilizers contr...

Many people might think of Blake Munger as a cattle farmer as he walks through his pasture land in western Kentucky, but he sees things a little

Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing human population and how to minimize environmental damage associated with intensive agriculture. Keeping more nitrogen in soil as ammonium may be one key way to address both challenges, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Today’s use of nitrogen fertilizers contributes...

Scott Olson/Getty Images Finding the best ways to do good. President Joe Biden has a plan to tackle climate change. His major infrastructure program, the American Jobs Plan, is mostly a blueprint for doing just that. It’s exhaustive — the summary alone clocks in at 12,000 words — and that’s encouraging. But in all those words, something crucial is missing. Nowhere does “meat” get a mention. Likewise, “animal agriculture” appears exactly zero times. If Biden is serious abou...

There’s a Booming Business in America’s Forests. Some Aren’t Happy About It. The fuel pellet industry is thriving. Supporters see it as a climate-friendly source of rural jobs. For others, it’s a polluter and destroyer of nature. A tree being dragged to a wood chipper, a first step toward being transformed into wood pellets and shipped overseas.Credit... Photographs and Video by Erin Schaff Gabriel Popkin and Erin Schaff traveled to Northampton County, N.C., to examine the c...

Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals/naturepl THE Great Barrier Reef is already in a critical state. Rising sea temperatures are killing corals faster than they can recover. As temperatures continue to increase, more and more of the reef will die, along with the rich variety of life and the AUS$6 billion tourism industry that depend on it. It is one headline-grabbing example among many. The continued rapid warming of the planet would wipe out many species, even if it were the only change happening. As i...

By MikeB (not verified) on 13 Apr 2015 #permalink @- RA Venter GMO’s sound like a great solution to the problem that we’re facing, however, one had to consider the effects on our health if we consume GMO’s. Are they not considered harmful to the human body? No. (Or at least, only by those with a serious woo problem) "Another great idea would be to educate people in the more impoverished areas and teach them to grow and harvest their own food supplies. Communal gardens?" People growing the...

Listen to the story. U Saw Mhue Dee, U Saw Benjamin and Daw Naw Lay Lay explain the process of growing elephant foot yam, sheltered from the afternoon heat under a stilt house in Paungdawgyi Village.  Credit: Share Many private companies are making pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions in the coming decades. But much fewer are taking it a step further — going carbon-negative by paying back the carbon emitted during a company’s lifetime. The most high-profile company to pledge t...