Many fruit and nut trees need chilly winters to emerge from their dormant period and begin to flower in spring, but global warming is already making California’s climate too hot for these lucrative crops, according to new research from the University of California, Davis and the University of Washington.
WASHINGTON, DC, January 21, 2009 (ENS) – In one of the final acts of the Bush administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will set “water quality standards for nutrients” for all Florida surface waters. The standards will apply to concentrations of the agricultural nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus in state waters. The…
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, December 8, 2008 (ENS) – Conservation and agricultural groups announced a new initiative today that aims to reduce the polluting sediment and excess agricultural nutrients that flow off farm fields into the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico every year. With a $5 million contribution from the St. Louis-based Monsanto corporation,…
MANHATTAN, Kansas, November 24, 2008 (ENS) – The pollution of fresh water by agricultural nutrients costs government agencies, drinking water facilities and individual Americans at least $4.3 billion a year in total, finds new research from Kansas State University. Biology professor Walter Dodds, who led the study, says the researchers calculated that $44 million a…