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| One of humankind's greatest accomplishments is the domestication of certain flora and fauna. Had this not happened, our numbers could never have grown to the, 6.5 billion, people now occupying the planet. Agriculture is the single largest consumer of fresh water. If our numbers grow to the projected 9 billion by mid century, as arable land decreases and water sources become over-allocated, the form of human agricultural patterns will evolve in response to this environmental change. The first image in this No Man's Land series is called "Mirage". It refers to the illusion of an unlimited supply of ground water beneath these center pivot irrigation crop circles in the middle of an otherwise desiccated environment. For more info: Honeybee Problem Nearing A ‘Critical Point’, California Pesticide Use Rises After Years Of Decline, Toxic Trespassers on Trial: The long wake of Bhopal, Guilty As Charged, UN Warns Quarter of World’s Landmass ‘Highly Degraded’, Melting Chocolate: Climate Change Threatens West Africa's Cocoa Dominance, Dan Rather on Pesticides & Bees, DuPont's Herbicide Goes Rogue, Swarm Troopers: Mutant Armies Waging War In The Wild, Pesticides Increase Diabetes Risk,"Mix & Match" — The Mysterious Math Behind CA's Methyl Iodide Decision Comes To Light, Consumers And Farm Workers At Risk From Toxic Pesticides Sprayed On Salad, Texas Farmers And Ranchers Fear Record Loss, Pesticides Found Guilty Of 'Chemical Trespass,' Again, EPA Approves New Herbicide Suspected in Tree Deaths, No Eureka Moments in Long U.S. Campaign to Crack Cellulosic Code, Blowin' in the Wind (aka Drift) New Study Analyzes Pesticide Poisoning Data from 11 States, Regulators Knew World's Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Birth Defects, Factory Farms Produce 100 Times More Waste Than All People In the US Combined and It's Killing Our Drinking Water, Three New Studies Link Pesticide Exposure and Reduced IQ's, Soil Erosion Far Worse Than Reported In American Farmlands, According To New EWG Report, What Would the World Look Like If We Relied on Industrial Agriculture to Feed Everyone?, Farmers Sue USDA Over Monsanto Alfalfa - Again, Feedlot Meat Has Spurred a Soy Boom That Has a Devastating Environmental and Human Cost, Is Our Food System Toxic? Doctors And Scientists weigh In, Family Ranches Need Help, Haitians Reject Monsanto's Trick Seed Offer, Why You Can Now Kiss Organic Beef, Dairy and Many Vegetables Goodby, NaturalNews USDA news, articles and information, 29 Million Pounds of Antibiotics used in US Agricultural Production Last Year, U.S. Meat Demand: The Influence
of Animal Welfare Media Coverage, CAFO the Book, Industry Front Group Gets Taxpayer Money to Convince You to Eat Pesticide-Laden Foods, Earth's Plant Yield Declines Despite Global Warming, Agroecological Farming Methods Being Ignored Says UN, Scientists Say New Farm Chemical Will Cause Disease and Illness, Shoppers Guide to Reduce Pesticide Consumption, How Palm Oil Trade Causes Food Chain Destruction, Farmers Cope with Roundup-Resistant Weeds, Antibiotics Given to Farm Animals Increases Our Risk of Infection, Biofuel Crops More Polluting Than Fossil Fuel , USDA List of Permissible Meat and Poultry Chemical Additives, The Remarkable Survival Instincts of Plants, Michael Pollan: The Real Price of Cheap Food, Killing Fields, The True Cost of Cheap Meat, Livestock, Climate Change and Mediocre Media, Agriculture's long Shadow, Crop Yields Plummet as Temperature Increases, Food Processors Addict Us just like Big Tobacco , UPDATE: No More Agriculture in California , 100,000 Farmers Commit Suicide , Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization , Agriculture's Toxic Legacy , A New Crop of Farmers , No More Agriculture in California and Biofuel More Harmful to Humans Than Petro |
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