Tag: agriculture
Honey bee colony decline to impact agriculture production in 2025
Commercial honey bee colony losses are projected to reach between 60 and 70 percent up from 40 and 50 percent in the past decade.
Kenya Court of Appeal blocks government’s import of GMOs
A case was brought against the government challenging its decision to lift the GMO ban it had in place in October 2022.
USDA ends school food program halting more than $1 billion in...
Two program providing schools and food banks with money to buy from local farmers and ranchers were recently ended by the United States Department of Agriculture.
How decades of factory farming paved the way for today’s superbugs...
There is a bigger issue here too—one that poses an existential threat to human health. Farms like this are central to the emergence and spread of so-called “superbugs.”
Children more at risk of cancers with exposure to multiple pesticides,...
The first-of-its-kind research studied the link between multiple widely used pesticides and common childhood cancers compared to previous research, which looked at exposure to one pesticide.
California pesticide regulators links herbicide paraquat to risks to wildlife, human...
Paraquat, which has been linked to a range of diseases, is banned in more than 70 countries.
How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship works to uproot racism in the...
This Petersburgh, New York, organization fights racial injustice in the food system.
Environmental Working Group detects lower levels of glyphosate in oats
EWG tested 24 samples of 14 non-organic oat-based products from popular brands and glyphosate was detected on all non-organic, or conventional, samples, but the average amounts were much lower than the tests conducted in 2018 and 2019.
Saving the bumblebee starts with changing our farming practices
We are the cause of the bumblebee decline—and the solution.
USDA invests $121 million to solve challenges facing specialty crop and...
The investment is part of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) $82.3 million in grant funding through the Agricultural Marketing Service.
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House Republicans advance massive budget bill with Medicaid cuts and tax breaks after secret...
GOP lawmakers pushed a sweeping bill forward in a rare Sunday vote after cutting a backroom deal with far-right Republicans to fast-track deeper Medicaid cuts and slash food aid—while offering permanent tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
Knowledge is not just power but what drives unrivaled US prosperity—slashed on the MAGA...
Fantasy magic thinking is a very expensive folly when human lives are at stake.
73% of Israelis want the Gaza genocide to end. Netanyahu says, ‘NO, full speed...
Israel did not enter this Land of Palestine to work with the Palestinians to create a two-state solution, as they were expected to do, but rather, they waged war to take over the entire country and its people.
Global hunger crisis deepens as world leaders slash aid amid record malnutrition and displacement
A record 295 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2024, as war, climate extremes, and economic shocks collided. With aid funding in freefall, UN officials warn the crisis is no longer just systemic—it is a failure of humanity.
America the unfree
Detention practices in a Trumpy post-9/11 age.