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Saving stillborns improves profits

2015-07-06 17:07:00| National Hog Farmer

By Ron Ketchem and Mark Rix, Swine Management Services LLC, Fremont, Neb. Weaned pig prices are projected to be lower for an extended period of time, making it imperative to become more efficient in the farrowing room. The SMS team estimates the breakeven for all pigs drops an estimated $1.20 for each additional pig that is saved per sow per year. read more

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Saving China from itself: How world's biggest polluter dealing with climate change

2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Age: The undulating hills of Ningxia have been home for Hai Zhengjun ever since he chiselled out a cave shelter on the side of a ridge with a pickaxe and shovel in the 1970s. The 64-year-old has learned never to take water for granted, having spent all his life rearing sheep and sowing crops of wheat and corn in an area environmentalists identify as among China's driest and most ecologically vulnerable. The central and southern parts of the region, which sprawl across the Loess Plateau and are home...

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What Greenpeace could learn from Manfred Mann about saving environment

2015-07-05 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Can you save the planet by packaging up tiny parcels of it? Idealism may have withered over a plot to stop the third runway at Heathrow but it lives on in mid-Wales, thanks to prog-rock legends Manfred Manns Earth Band. Some of the 100,000 people, including Emma Thompson and Alistair McGowan, who signed up to become beneficial co-owners of an orchard in the middle of Heathrows proposed third runway have been left fuming by the revelation that Greenpeace quietly sold the lease back to the original...

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Saving West's iconic landscapes from wildfires, one steppe at a time

2015-07-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Christian Science Monitor: The landscape is quintessentially western vast expanses of sage-covered steppe punctuated by plateaus and mesas etched with canyons. Known as the Greater Sheldon-Hart Mountain landscape, the tract is billed as one of the few remaining large parcels of sage-steppe habitat in the United States. Now, it's one of 10 pilot projects in a new US Interior Department program aimed at improving the resilience of iconic, ecologically important landscapes to wildfires. The fire resilience concept isn't...

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