Environment
New Zealand’s best olive oil this year is a mellow grassy green, thick and fragrant, peppery and charged with subtle fruitiness. It comes from 20-year-old trees grown on a warm…
The effects of drought have altered the quantity and quality of vegetables grown in Central California, but that may change for table olives. FM89’s Ezra David Romero reports. The majority…
The researchers introduced a special arrangement of synthetic nanomembranes as the best system to obtain the highest efficiency in the purification process and to reduce the costs. Studies on purification…
An organic farmer in Western Australia whose crop was contaminated with genetically modified (GM) canola from a neighbouring farm has lost his court appeal for compensation. Steve Marsh of Kojonup…
The Organic Federation of Australia was saddened to see the result of the Supreme Court decision last Thursday, in the Steve Marsh/Baxter GM Contamination case in Western Australia. Steve and…
A research team from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, has created a cocktail of four different phages (viruses of bacteria) which they used to treat grapevines affected by…
Next time you drizzle olive oil on your salad, give a thought to the larvae of the olive fly, which love olives as much as you do. Every year in…
Back in May, in an eye-opening story, The New York Times offered a reality check regarding the West Coast’s severe water shortage. In “Your Contribution to the California Drought,” reporters…