Wall Street Journal Rural China's toxic turn is largely a consequence of two trends, say environmental researchers: the expansion of polluting industries into remote areas a safe distance from population centers, and heavy use of chemical fertilizers to meet the country's ... and more »
Dallas Morning News Two days after the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City (right), Oklahoma began collecting detailed injury information. In the three months since the explosion at West Fertilizer Co. (left), Texas officials have yet to determine even how ... and more »
Deseret News That problem, compounded by the system's excess ammonia levels, is necessitating an expensive fix for Logan — as much as $125 million — to meet state and federal water quality standards. City officials recently decided to move ahead with plans for a ...
Westword (blog) But while recollections of hauling mulch or soil back to the family station wagon still linger, what stands out most to me is the olfactory reaction to the chemical aroma that bags of chemical plant fertilizer can put off. To this day, walking into the ...
Economic Times The demand for natural gas in India is highly price sensitive, as key consuming sectors like power and fertilizer are only able to sell their products at government-controlled prices, limiting their ability to pass through increases in gas prices to ...
Daily News ... “Is agroforestry a suitable response to climate change”, the Regional Director of the Environment of Bas- Sassandra, notes that he exploitation of natural resources – land, water, biodiversity is reaching saturation point and this is compounded by ... and more »
Motherboard (blog) In the US, excess nutrients in waterways usually arrive via sewage plants, and nitrogen and phosphorous-based fertilizers washed away with agricultural run-off. “Up until a decade ago nitrates have been under the radar,” said Mindy Selman, ... to New ... and more »
Twin Cities Daily Planet (blog) ... is coming from crop fields. Anyone remotely familiar with agriculture knows that Minnesota's most prolific crop, corn, is the biggest consumer of nitrogen fertilizer , which is applied at various times of the year through various methods. ... This ...
Benzinga (The Bush administration watered and fertilized those seeds and we all reaped the whirlwind.) ..... Sixth, Stigler compounded his anti-regulatory motif by misinterpreting the work of Ronald Coase, who became a Nobel Laureate in economics in 1991.
AllAfrica.com They also provided farm inputs like seeds, and fertilizers . Then the liberalisation of the 1990s came in and the co-operatives ... The problem was compounded by borrowing from banks. He castigates the donors who he says killed the cooperatives so that ...
