News articles tagged with 'farm'
UC Davis study: Wild salmon decline was not caused by sea lice from farm salmon
— 14 Dec 2010 20:12 | EnvironmentA new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada…
Detroit's urban farms could provide a majority of produce for local residents
— 17 Nov 2010 10:15 | EnvironmentTransforming vacant urban lots into farms and community gardens could provide Detroit residents with a majority of their fruits and vegetables…
Sustainable farming options snap open for bivalves
— 4 Sep 2010 11:06 | EnvironmentTwo sets of global standards - one for pangasius farming and the other for bivalve farming - were finalised today by the Aquaculture Dialogues…
On organic coffee farm, complex interactions keep pests under control
— 26 Aug 2010 19:46 | BiologyProponents of organic farming often speak of nature's balance in ways that sound almost spiritual, prompting criticism that their views are unscientific and naive. At the other end…
Business affiliation could increase potential risk of farm-to-farm transmission of avian influenza
— 30 Mar 2010 11:14 | HealthA new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the potential influence that the business connections between broiler chicken growers may…
Farm clusters kill wild fish
— 6 May 2009 18:00 | EnvironmentSalmon farms clustered on the migratory route of wild salmon could be killing large numbers of fish in the wild, according to scientists writing today in the journal Proceedings of…
Another reason to drink a nice cup of shade-grown joe
— 23 Dec 2008 14:20 | BiologyA new study published in the 23rd December issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, reveals another 'eco-friendly' reason to select shade-grown coffee over beans that were…
Shade coffee benefits more than birds
— 23 Dec 2008 14:20 | BiologyHere's one more reason to say 'shade grown, please' when you order your morning cup of coffee. Shade coffee farms, which grow coffee under a canopy of multiple tree species, not only…
30 percent of farm workers' children lack health insurance
— 2 Dec 2008 13:32 | HealthChildren of farm workers are three times as likely as all other children and almost twice as likely as other poor children to be uninsured, according to a report in the December issue…
Turning freshwater ponds into crab farms
— 12 Oct 2008 11:44 | BiologyEffort by scientists at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest - blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. Crab…