Industrial Agriculture Pesticide Science 
Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Powerful PR firms have worked overtime in recent years to craft a narrative that highlight farms’ potential role in mitigating climate change, but the truth is that agriculture consumes 6 percent of the world’s fossil fuel energy , and the oil and gas industries rely on industrial agriculture for one of its largest and most lucrative markets.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
OCTOBER 24, 2024
We are all more from science,” she says in her German-accented English. If successful, Strey says a little sheepishly in the clip, Plantix would “save the environment by using less pesticides.” million, this time with money from one of the largest retailers of pesticides in the world. Something potentially very big.
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The Equation
JUNE 20, 2023
Farmworkers face many hazards while performing the labor that props up the $1.264 trillion US food and farm economy, yet a new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that federal agencies focused on agriculture and health invested an average of only $16.2 What does that do?
The Equation
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Woods brings decades of experience in the application of spatial data science to her work studying the environmental and health impacts of the US food and agriculture system. While development, forestry, and climate change all contribute to wetland loss, draining for agriculture has been the single biggest cause since the 1800s.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
She mixes Indigenous traditional knowledge with modern science in a way that feels practical yet fun.” “The fact is that our current food system pours herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides on so much of our food.” Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
In modern times, there’s a long tradition of techno-optimists or cornucopians–science writer Charles C. For the time being, our cunning plan seems to be to wait until the last second and hope an airbag will deploy to cushion us from the final impact. Mann calls them “wizards”–telling us that technology will come to our rescue.
The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).
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