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WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2010 (ENS) - The first genetically engineered crop case ever heard by the U.S. Supreme Court will be argued on April 27 and it has already attracted a lot of interest from food companies, farmers unions, scientists and legal scholars.
SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 20, 2010 (ENS) - The Goldman Environmental Foundation has announced the six recipients of the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize, grassroots leaders who are taking on some of the most challenging environmental problems affecting local communities and the planet.
CORVALLIS, Oregon, April 19, 2010 (ENS) - A tiny Asian fly that is new to North America is threatening much of the West Coast fruit industry and has been detected in Florida too, warn state and federal agricultural experts.
The spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, an invasive vinegar fly nat...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 31, 2010 (ENS) - Seventy-six organizations representing tens of millions of Americans today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking that the agency immediately strengthen U.S. border protections to keep out cows from Canada with mad cow disease.
The letter is...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 2010 (ENS) - The federal government is developing a new national policy for sustainable marine aquaculture and is seeking public input to craft a set of uniform, national standards to regulate open ocean aquaculture in federal waters.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2010 (ENS) - The greater sage-grouse "warrants" the protection of the Endangered Species Act but listing the species at this time is "precluded by the need to address higher priority species first," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday.
Atrazine, a weed killer commonly used in the Midwest to combat broadleaf pest plants that ail crops, has been found to cause severe hormone imbalances in laboratory animals. The pesticide, which is a known endocrine disruptor, is the most activley detected pesticide in USGS ground and surface water...
Nina Fedoroff, the chief scientist of Secretary of State Clinton, has come forward with new research advocating the expansion of genetically modified organisms in farming.
A broad and diverse coalition of industry groups sent a letter to the EPA, the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture, and the White House to protest the planned expansion of biofuels in consumer gasoline. Currently, the EPA allows a 10% of gasoline sold to consumers to be subsidy-drive...
It is believed that the ancient Amazon people crafted a special fertilizer by burying clay jars filled with char, bones, and manure. This time-consuming process created a substance the Portuguese called "terra preta" or "black earth." In modern times, scientists have come to know that this ultra-fer...
