Tag: Fertilizer

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  Selenium Contamination Linked to Two-Headed Trout Near Idaho Phosphate Mine

  A government report has found that selenium contamination is connected to fish deformities, including two-headed trout.

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  The Week in Animal News: Powerful Sea Cucumber Poo, Giant Pythons Invade Florida and More

  Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.

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  How Nitrogen Pollution Impacts Our Communities

  Manure and fertilizer runoff is harming communities across the country. A new interactive map illustrates how, and showcases the people who are doing something about it.

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  Tea Fertilized with Panda Poop Will Cost $36,000 Per Pound and (Maybe) Prevent Cancer

  A new tea set to become the world's most expensive is being fertilized with panda feces, and is touted as having cancer-preventing properties.

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  Does Living Near Fast Food Restaurants Mean You’re More Likely to Be Fat?

  Fast food is the enemy of green food, so why does an overweight America still eat so much fast food?

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  False Advertising Word of the Week: Artisan

  Artisan is the new natural in terms of false advertising.

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  Endangered Species List on the Periodic Table?

  It sounds ridiculous: how could an element on the periodic table be an endangered species? The scientist, James Elser of Arizona State University, who is asking if we need a 'Red List' for phosphorous uses the

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  Radioactive Waste Is Piling Up in Japanese Sewage Treatment Plants, Some Sold as Fertilizer

  The disaster at Fukushima may have faded from the news cycle, but the radioactive waste it left behind isn't going anywhere. At the Saitama sewage treatment plant, 169 miles from Fukushima, workers are dealing with tons of

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  California Court Overturns Order to Destroy GMO Beets

  It seems that GMOs are again steamrolling their way through our legal system. Back in December it seemed there may be a light at the end of the tunnel when a federal judge ordered that 258 acres of genetically modified sugar

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  View From Above: Fertilizer Use Around the World

  The map above is the first illustration of worldwide imbalances in the use of phosphorus, a key component of fertilizers and an essential plant nutrient. "Typically, people either worry

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  What is Biodynamic Gardening? (Video)

  When I asked how vegetarians can avoid animal-based fertilizers, I noted that some people suggested exploring biodynamics instead of organics. In fact, nothing

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  How Can Vegetarians Avoid Fish, Blood and Bonemeal Fertilizer?

  When I asked whether vegans can eat carrots grown with manure, some commenters found the question despicable. But my intention was not to question anyone's commitment, nor to lessen the

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  Is "Peak Fertilizer" Nearer Than We Think? New Report Fuels Concern

  Earlier this week John was musing about how "peak fertilizer" could make manure a valuable commodity once more, and if Gene Logsdon's guide to managing manure is to be believed, some mega-farmers are getting back into

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  How To Offset Half of All Airline Carbon Emissions With Human Urine (Video)

  Our de facto senior humanure correspondent, Sami Grover, has written a number of times on how we've both created a huge mess by mixing our excrement with water in sewage systems and Ihow we're flushing down the toilet an amazingly useful and valuable

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  Fertilizer Runoff Linked to Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity

  Natural human optimism leads one to hope that hazardous chemicals wastes discarded by humans are broken down in the natural environment, until they are once again harmless. When scientists concern

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  Stop Eating Fossil Fuels, Start Eating Food

  Michael Pollan says that if you eat a typical American diet, you are made of corn. Dale Allen Pfeiffer takes it one step further, and says We are Eating Fossil Fuels. (Actually, Jaymi points out that Michael Pollan says that too.)

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  Above Average Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Forecast by NOAA Scientists

  No, it has nothing directly to do with the BP oil spill, but it won't help things... Scientists supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have just announced that the northern

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  Centuries-Old State of the Art Still Useful Today

  Outside the southeastern Turkish city of Mardin lie the 6th-century ruins of the Roman settlement of Dara,