Subjects Archives: Agriculture

Keeping federal protections in place is our first line of defense against trophy hunting and recreational trapping, and our members of Congress and officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must hear that message from us.

For decades, China was the world’s largest consumer of chemical fertilisers, using approximately 50 million tonnes per year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Today, according to FAO data, it is the only country that has reduced its consumption.

It all begins with a potato.

“With every additional centimeter of sea-level rise,” the lead author noted, “about 2 to 3 million people are put at risk of annual coastal flooding.”

Cuba published a package of 19 legal regulations updating the agricultural sector’s legal framework, expanding land usufruct and marketing powers to ensure food sovereignty.

As public anger against the Nepalese government mounts after deadly landslides in Nepal, files show the country’s new prime minister and several of his colleagues came to power thanks in part to a covert program sponsored by the U.S. government.

The Trump administration has cut staff, funding at agencies that track foodborne illnesses.

By Aug. 21, the Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce sold by Taylor Farms had sickened 10,930 people in 17 states, hospitalized 454 and killed two. The illnesses began June 14 and continued through Aug. 11.

JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world.

Will the developed countries, the ones most responsible for this danger, finally face the situation, or will they wait until it is too late for everyone?

The water will recede. It always does. What matters is what we do in the months it leaves us.

In 2024, dozens of prominent researchers wrote an article in Science that introduced the world to a dizzying concept: the existential perils of so-called “mirror-life,” a type of organism based on molecular structures not found on Earth.

Currently, there are 36 liquefied natural gas terminals and expansion projects proposed, under construction or actively operating in the United States, with 28 concentrated in the Gulf Coast.

CounterSpin interview with Gina Plata-Nino on food aid cuts.

Nuuk states that the landing of the drilling equipment was never authorized, even as the energy company plans to begin drilling in October.

A recent report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has warned that we are entering an era of global water bankruptcy.

Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease. This is the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food.

Phosphate fertilizer is essential to industrial agriculture. Washington’s war on Iran has disrupted the routes that carry Gulf oil, gas, petrochemicals and fertilizer to the world market.

These two conflicts, the aerial and the environmental, are interconnected. Both reflect a struggle for survival shaped by a Pakistani state that has prioritized military spending over water security, geopolitical interests over ecological planning, and the interests of large landowners over those of small farmers.

Lindsey German on climate chaos and capitalism’s inability to deal with it.