May 30, 2019
Stories tagged "agriculture"
May 16, 2019
One Cool Job Thing: Environmental Jobs Pay Well!
It’s graduation season and we will end the week on a high note! Yahoo Finance recently reported that in today’s hot job market, it’s possible to find a good job that pays at least $60,000 right out of college even with no experience. On a salary...May 7, 2019
Climate change coming for our bananas
The conditions that are ideal for growing bananas–sunny, humid, tropical environments–are also an ideal incubator for the fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis, more commonly known as Black Sigatoka disease. As Phys explained, Black Sigatoka disease emerged from...April 24, 2019
Changing our mentality around food waste
Food waste is not only a terrible thing when 15 million U.S. households are food insecure but the one-third of our food supply that we waste is a major contributor to climate change. Yesterday was Stop Foodwaste Day and while most people likely they don’t think...March 4, 2019
Saltwater intrusion a ticking time bomb for NC farms
As climate change is causing sea levels to rise, this salty water’s encroachment inland means that drinking water, native plant species, and agriculture are all coming under threat. The Washington Post reported that “rising seas, sinking earth and extreme...January 22, 2019
U.S. Farms Poisoning Drinking Water Supplies
The Wall Street Journal published a stinging critique of big agriculture’s impact on rural drinking water supplies, which they say are being spoiled “by fewer, more-intensively worked farms, bigger cows and shifting crop mixes.” These large farms...January 18, 2019