Whenever I see sports media beef, my reaction is to wonder what’s for dinner or daydream about literally anything else. So when I saw that Draymond Green ripped Bill Simmons for Simmons’ saying, “Fuck Jalen Green,” I looked out the window and pondered whether this spring sprinkle in Chicago was going to develop into a… […]
Enlarge (credit: John Paraskevas/Newsday RM) For over a decade, the US has blended ethanol with gasoline in an attempt to reduce the overall carbon pollution produced by fossil fuel-powered cars and trucks. But a new study says that the practice may not be achieving its goals. In fact, burning ethanol made from corn—the major source […]
Enlarge / We’d like to replace you with a forest. (credit: Peter Cade ) By shifting to more plant-rich diets, wealthy nations could cut their agricultural emissions by 61 percent— and sequester nearly 100 gigatons of CO 2 equivalent if the surplus farmland is left to rewild. The global food system is the second-biggest source […]
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Enlarge / From some perspectives, the forest garden doesn’t stand out from the landscape. (credit: Chelsey Armstrong) In the 1930s, an archeologist from the Smithsonian wrote a short paper remarking on the exquisite vegetation around First Nation villages in Alaska. The surroundings were filled with nuts, stone fruit, berries, and herbs—several non-native to the area […]
Enlarge / It’s a myth that cows fart methane; they actually burp out the greenhouse gas. Agriculture now has a new tool for measuring that methane, which could help design cleaner and more productive farms. (credit: BerndBrueggemann/iStock/Getty Images) Optical frequency combs are essentially high-tech “rulers” for measuring different colors of light; they’re useful for making […]
Enlarge / All those lights take energy. (credit: DEA) Back in the pre-legalization days, cannabis production meant finding a rarely visited patch of land and growing outside, or it meant taking cultivation indoors—typically to a basement where your product wouldn’t be visible from the outside world. But the power use involved in lighting a basement […]
Register to CEO Daily to get must-read company advice from Fortune CEO Alan Murray, delivered free to your inbox. An extra 100 million people or more may possibly be facing starvation this season, since the COVID-19 outbreak and consequent economic weakness has united with the consequences of climate change to place a lot more people […]
Together with the pandemic altering age-old customer customs, there could be yet another taboo headed for extinction: Edible pests. After years of squeamishnesswe may eventually be prepared to let creepy-crawlies to our food supply series. Bugs, it appears, are getting a second. Last week (only a day in front of a fly gained international fame […]