agriculture

Global warming does not benefit plants: new study

April 10, 2012 By Dan Margolis

A study by researchers at Northern Arizona University shows that a somewhat rosy predictions about purported beneficial effects of global warming on plant life are likely not true.

Waiter, there’s a newfangled technology in my soup

August 10, 2011 By Andrew Ranallo

The unregulated nanotech industry is spreading through the U.S. food system.

Food deficits, deadlier than budget deficits

June 21, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Living on a farm makes me think long and deep about food deficits here at home and around the world, deficits far more menacing than budget deficits.

Floods raise major implications for Australia’s future

January 18, 2011 By Special to People’s World

Australia's Guardian newspaper writes the devastating floods in Australia raise major implications for the nation on water management, agriculture and fossil fuels that feed global warming/climate change.

Imperialist bullying sharpens in Haiti

January 4, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Foreign intervention in Haiti is as problematic as ever, including food aid that is undoing Haiti's economy and independence.