Earth's growing nitrogen threat, It helps feed a hungry world, but it's worse than CO2. By Mark Clayton Staff Writer of The Christian Science Monitor January 12, 2010 Dennis Lindsay still recalls the day four decades ago when his father, an Iowa farmer, began using nitrogen fertilizer on the family’s 160 acres. Nitrogen fertilizer at [...]
EPA Proposes Freshwater Nutrient Limits for Fla., a National First By TARYN LUNTZ , GreenwireJanuary 15, 2010 , New York TimesThe EPA proposal sets limits on nitrogen and phosphorous for freshwater lakes, rivers, streams, springs and canals. The agency said it would propose a rule for estuaries and other coastal waters in January 2011. The [...]
King Corn and Big River follow food from seed to harvest and beyond By Straus NewspapersJanuary 14, 2010Fourth installment in Environmental Film Series sponsored by Sustainable West Milford West Milford — Where does our food come from? And, just as importantly, what are the impacts from the way it is grown? Join Sustainable West [...]
Film highlights Iowa farming practices By MATTHEW WILDE, matt.wilde@wcfcourier.comMonday, January 11, 2010 9:45 pm, WCFCourier.com, The Cedars Valley homepage RICK CHASE A farmer spreads anhydrous ammonia in a 2007 file photo. (RICK CHASE / Courier Staff Photographer) DECORAH - Iowa agriculture takes center stage again in a documentary about how farming practices impact the environment. [...]
EPA Proposes Standards to Protect Floridas Waters: Action would decrease amount of phosphorus and nitrogen pollution By Enesta Jones, jones.enesta@epa.gov, 202-564-7873, 202-564-435501/15/2010 Nutrient pollution can damage drinking water sources; increase exposure to harmful algal blooms, which are made of toxic microbes that can cause damage to the nervous system or even death; and form byproducts [...]
Copenhagen: Look to the Sea? By David BielloDecember 10, 2009, Scientific AmericanThe oceans control climate change. Not only do the world's waters absorb the bulk of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, they also absorb the bulk of the extra carbon dioxide. And that means one thing: a more acid ocean. [...]
Theory for dead zone off Oregon Coast By Keely ChalmersDecember 17, 2009 at 9:21 AM, kwg.com, news channel, Portland, OregonThe Oregon State University scientists said they now have evidence that the dead zones were directly related to a warming climate. The dead zone started appearing off the Oregon coast in 2002. It’s an area of [...]
Aggresive federal efforts could test bay group By David A. Fahrenthold December 18, 2009 , The Washington Post ANNAPOLIS --At the podium, a political science professor was ripping into the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the well-funded granddaddy of bay area environmentalism. The Chesapeake's biggest fight in a generation is starting, he was saying. And the foundation [...]
OSU scientists believe global warming contributing to growing dead zone off Oregon coast By Shelby BatesonDecember 20, 2:53 PM, Green Technology ExaminerSouth Africa Oceanic Dead Zones http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/6822/SouthAfrica.A2004338.0835.250m.jpg There is a dead zone off the Oregon coastline which has been growing since 2002. A group of scientists at Oregon State University (OSU), working in conjunction with [...]
A voice for Chesapeake Bay has a grim message By Rex Springston December 28, 2009 , Richmond Times-Dispatch People have a basic human right to clean water, according to Ernst. "I think you can really make a case that this is the civil-rights issue of our generation," said Ernst, an associate professor of political science [...]