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BusinessWeek
April 14, 2011
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The Battle Royale for Supercorn Corn that doesn't need so much nitrogen could cut America's $8-billion-a-year fertilizer bill, send less pollution into the water and less carbon into the air. Meet the scientists trying to build a better kernel |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2012
Peter Fairley |
Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected |
Scientific American
June 2009
Madhusree Mukerjee |
Is a Popular Carbon-Offset Method Just a Lot of Hot Air? A popular carbon-offset scheme may do little to cut emissions. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Monsanto Seeds Its Pipeline A continued partnership with Evogene should result in higher yields. |
Food Processing
April 2013
Rory Gillespie |
Fear and Loathing Haunt GMOs It's difficult to balance the lack of negative scientific evidence against consumers' right to know what's in their food. |
Chemistry World
September 21, 2007
Zoe Corbyn |
Biofuels could boost global warming, finds study The findings come in the wake of a recent OECD report, which warned nations not to rush headlong into growing energy crops because they cause food shortages and damage biodiversity. |
Science News
September 17, 2005
Janet Raloff |
Using Light to Sense Plants' Health and Diversity A new experimental laser device promises speedy and more-detailed maps of crop-nutrition needs by taking readings from plants themselves as a tractor or other vehicle moves through a field. |
Reason
January 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Dr. Strangelunch Or: Why we should learn to stop worrying and love genetically modified food... |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Eric Jaffe |
The World After Oil As the planet warms up, eco-friendly fuels can't get here fast enough. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
November 2001
David Schardt |
Genetically Engineered Foods: Are They Safe? Using biotechnology to produce food has enormous potential: safer pesticides and less harm to wildlife, more nutritious foods, and greater yields to help feed the world's hungry nations. It's the risks of dicing and splicing Mother Nature that are harder to get a handle on... |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Arlene Weintraub |
The Outcry over "Terminator" Genes in Food Critics fear such safeguards present fresh genetic perils |
IndustryWeek
June 17, 2009
Thomas Duesterberg |
The Competitive Edge -- Cap-and-Trade Would Be a Major Mistake U.S. manufacturers face significant cost disadvantages if current proposals are enacted. |
Wired
May 2004
Richard Manning |
Super Organics Forget Frankenfruit - the new-and-improved flavor of gene science is Earth-friendly and all-natural. Welcome to the golden age of smart breeding. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
David Fairlamb |
The Smog Trade Will pollution "credits" help clean up the world? |
Geotimes
April 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Faith-Based Carbon Credit Systems Market-based approaches to help stem carbon releases, and in turn climate change, could prove difficult to marshal and enforce. Carbon credits and trade incentives are a small piece in a larger issue. |
BusinessWeek
April 29, 2010
Kaskey & Ligi |
The Seed Makers Who Don't Pray for Rain Agricultural companies tweak crops to flourish with less. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004
John Carey |
Global Warming Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO2 emissions. Many companies are now preparing for a carbon-constrained world. |
Delicious Living
October 2007
Frederick Kirschenmann |
The Power of Ducks Excerpt from the author's book on obtaining a sustainable agriculture. |
Chemistry World
May 7, 2014
Emma Stoye |
China's nitrous oxide emissions to triple by 2020 Emissions of nitrous oxide -- a potent greenhouse gas -- from China's chemical industries are increasing rapidly, and are set to triple by 2020 unless measures are put in place to stop them, new projections show. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Willie D. Jones |
New Device Lets Plants Talk Smart sensors let crops text-message growers for more water and one company claims their sensors could significantly lower the world's freshwater usage. |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
What's So Scary About Rice? Biotech crops can make drugs, but they must be kept out of the food chain. |
Geotimes
December 2006
Fred Schwab |
Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
William R. Cline |
Global Warming and Agriculture If steps are not taken to curb carbon emissions, agricultural productivity could fall dramatically, especially in developing countries. |
BusinessWeek
February 5, 2007
Carey & Carter |
Food vs. Fuel As energy demands devour crops once meant for sustenance, the economics of agriculture are being rewritten. |
Chemistry World
January 18, 2012
Rebecca Trager |
BASF pulls out of Europe over GM hostility German chemical giant BASF has announced that it will halt the development or commercialization of genetically modified crops in Europe, and move its biotech R&D operations to the US. |
Chemistry World
May 14, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Scientists to crowdsource power plant data US researchers at Arizona State University are enlisting the help of citizen scientists to map carbon dioxide emissions from power plants around the world. |
BusinessWeek
November 13, 2006
Adrienne Carter |
Harvesting Green Power Farmers are sowing the seeds of an alternative energy future. But how much of the country can we fuel on corn? |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Susan Arterian Chang |
Carbon Commerce The Europeans have demonstrated beyond doubt that the right to emit CO2 is destined to be a major internationally traded asset -- but their experience to date also exemplifies some of the pitfalls the rest of the world faces in establishing such trading systems. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Hooray for Stalemates! Government deadlock will likely bring more genetically engineered seeds to the EU, and good news for Syngenta, DuPont, and Dow Chemical. |
BusinessWeek
June 2, 2011
Ben Elgin |
Chevy's Carbon Plan: Less Than Meets the Eye The carmaker will buy carbon offsets if you buy a Chevy. But the carbon reductions may likely be less than promised. |
BusinessWeek
December 30, 2009
John Carey |
Greenhouse Gases: Who's Cheating? The amounts of carbon in the atmosphere are out of whack with predictions and reported output. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Stuart Biggs |
New Zealand Farmers Harvest Carbon Credits Growing trees can be more profitable than raising sheep. |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2012
Jim Mueller |
This Fertilizer Company Will Help Grow Your Portfolio Fertilizer is a necessity. So is this company. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2011
Jacob Roche |
Mr. Market Mistakes Good News for Bad What's going on with these fertilizer stocks? |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Efstathiou & Chipman |
As Temperatures Rise, Business Adapts With no deal on carbon emissions expected from Cancun, companies are looking to profit from global warming. |
Chemistry World
December 7, 2006
Simon Hadlington |
Keep on the Grass US researchers have found it is possible to grow crops for fuel in a way that results in a net reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. |
CFO
April 1, 2007
John Goff |
Cleaning Up Carbon Pressure to curb carbon emissions is mounting. How companies respond will affect much more than their bottom lines. |
American Journal of Nursing
February 2008
O'Connor & Roy |
Electric Power Plant Emissions and Public Health Potentially harmful pollutants to be aware of and how they may affect the public's health. |
CFO
January 1, 2008
John Goff |
Carbon Trading The carbon offset market is set to take off. But at this point, the future worth of a carbon commodity is tough to call. Could U.S. businesses end up buying a lot of hot air? |
BusinessWeek
February 28, 2005
Laura Cohn |
What Price Pollution? In Europe, the Kyoto Protocol is spurring a brisk market in emission credits. Under the program, banks and exchanges are preparing to service some 12,000 industrial installations across the EU. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Monsanto Goes Brown to Make Green The agricultural giant is buying WestBred, a privately held wheat breeding company for $45 million. |
Reason
June 2009
Ronald Bailey |
Energy Futures A quick guide to alternative energy sources we may see in the not-too-distant future. |
Popular Mechanics
December 8, 2009
James B. Meigs |
The Myth of Clean Coal: Analysis Although coal-fired power plants are cleaner than they used to be, they are still bad news for the environment and human health. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
Bob Hirschfeld |
Good Breeding Ag-biotech is entering a period of vibrant growth as farmers, not only in the U.S., but Brazil, India and China increase usage of the highly productive seeds. Is Wall Street valuing shares of ag-biotech companies correctly? |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2012
John Maxfield |
5 Stocks With Monster Profit Potential Plant your seed in these five agricultural stocks and watch as your portfolio blooms. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Sandra Upson |
Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Samuel K. Moore |
The Water Cost of Carbon Capture Coal power's carbon savior could double its water woes |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2010 |
Chevrolet to Invest $40 Million in Clean-Energy Projects The GM automaker aims to reduce CO2 emissions. |
The Motley Fool
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Tim Hanson |
Will China Starve the World? What happens when the food supply can't keep up with the demand in China? |
