by Gil Bretler | Apr 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Working in a dairy farm is a dangerous activity. Manure emits methane, a highly explosive gaz. When manure is stabilized and no methane is emitted, the safety level is higher. Approximately 18,000 cows were killed, and one person was critically injured, in an...
by Gil Bretler | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Animal agriculture is the second largest contributor to human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, after fossil fuels, and is a leading cause of deforestation, water and air pollution and biodiversity loss. Though much of the world is focused on transitioning...
by Gil Bretler | Mar 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Peter pontificates that a billion people will starve from the impact of Putin’s War. Conventional toxic fertilizers produced by petrochemicals could be replaced by sustainable seaplants farmed offshore to mitigate famine and...
by Gil Bretler | Mar 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Excessive use of phosphorus is depleting reserves vital to global food production, while also adding to the climate cris Our planet faces “phosphogeddon”, scientists have warned. They fear our misuse of phosphorus could lead to deadly shortages of...
by Gil Bretler | Mar 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
This is is a high-quality analysis – unfortunately only in french – of rigorous proofs (or lack of them) regarding climate change. But even if climate will not change, water and atmospheric pollution related to agricultural activities will bring a change...
by Gil Bretler | Mar 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Dan Egan, March 11, 2023, Bigthink. Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance. All the H2O we have on Earth now is all we will ever have. Water molecules might get polluted with contaminants for a time, or they...
