Bombs made from ordinary fertilizer were used to destroy the federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 and to damage the World Trade Center in 1993.

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New Factory to Make Fertilizer That Is Less Useful in Creating Bombs

Humans have mined resources from the remote and rocky coast of Peru and Chile for more than a century and a half, gathering the guano deposits of seabirds for fertilizer and gunpowder. Those seabirds flourished on anchoveta in the coastal waters, while Peruvians in the highlands ate the same fish as dried snacks. Read full article > >

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Population growth taxing planet’s resources

Industrial globalised agriculture is heavily implicated in climate change. It contributes to the three major greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide (CO2) from the use of fossil fuels, nitrogen oxide (N2O) from the use of chemical fertilizers and methane (CH4) from factory farming. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC), atmospheric concentration of CO2 has increased from a pre–industrial concentration of about 280 parts per million to 379 parts per million in 2005. read more

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Biodiverse Ecological Farming is the Answer, not Genetic Engineering

With bombs the main killer of Americans in Afghanistan, the U.S. started an effort to stop the flow of ammonium nitrate, their basic ingredient, into the country.

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U.S. Tries to End Flow of Bomb Item to Afghanistan

Toolville, California – Toolville is a tiny colonia, or unincorporated and informal settlement of about a hundred families, in the rural San Joaquin Valley, just a couple of miles outside the small town of Exeter. Over recent years, Toolville residents have discovered dangerous concentrations of nitrates in their water supply, which is pumped from the aquifer below the homes. read more

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The Photographic Look at the People of California’s Central Valley: Toolville and Its Bad Water