Wind farms put pressure on bats.
August 26, 2008
Environmental Health News
Bats are at risk from wind turbines, researchers have found, because the rotating blades produce a change in air pressure that can kill the mammals.
Bats are at risk from wind turbines, researchers have found, because the rotating blades produce a change in air pressure that can kill the mammals.
Daytime talk show host and Food Network star, Rachael Ray, was spotted out shopping at the Union Square Farmer’s Market with a member of her audience (trying to find out the story behind that ...
In Brazil, the government is encouraging farmers to produce more for export while prices are high. But Argentina is focused on encouraging farmers to sell more at home.
This year, Carol Nissen's crops include mesclun, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, and assorted herbs. When she sits down to dine, she's often eating food grown with her own two hands.
North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson says the state's potato farmers are scrambling to gather seed potatoes for an anticipated
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"...you can have the very best technology in the world, and if you don't get it out there and market it, if you don't have a distribution network, then it doesn't have any impact.
By Stephanie Paige OgburnIn "Dispatches from the Fields," Ariane Lotti and Stephanie Ogburn, who are working on small farms in Iowa and Colorado this season, share their thoughts on ...
Congress believes some Americans are more equal than others.
Two young brothers were killed Wednesday in northwestern Alberta after they entered a grain hopper and were sucked beneath the grain.
Agriculture minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, said although Gustav was downgraded from a Category One hurricane, the protection of livestock to reduce the impact of damage is important.Tufton said a Na.
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Workers were plucking plump blackberries and raspberries off the vines at a Fife farm this week, trying to bring in the final crop from another disappearing plot of prime Puyallup Valley soil.
Federal inspectors in charge of overseeing health standards at a Maple Leaf Foods processing plant at the centre of a deadly outbreak of listeriosis were doing their job properly, Federal Agriculture ...
Have you been wondering what Martha Stewart's farm looks like? You'll want to see the Sept. 15 season premiere of "The Martha Stewart Show.
The world’s most destructive citrus disease is threatening the largest domestic producer of these fruits.
Implementation of the new farm bill will ultimately be handed off to the next presidential administration, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer said at a press conference in Iowa Thursday.
The shelves are mostly bare at the once-booming International Farmers Market in Chamblee. Employee Robert Salassi said the market could close in the next week.
Farmers in “America’s Salad Bowl” are turning into hunters — stalking wild pigs, rabbits and deer — to keep E. coli and other harmful bacteria out of their fields.
Today a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held in Creekstone Farms Premium Beef v. USDA that the USDA may prohibit Creekstone Farms from testing its cows...
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Farmers in "America's Salad Bowl" are turning into hunters - stalking wild pigs, rabbits and deer - to keep E. coli and other harmful bacteria out of their fields....