Environment, Forestry and Agriculture

Great bounty is the median measure of Alabama’s water supply. But a lot depends on where and when the rain falls.

Atmospheric scientist John Christy says two decades of data don’t back up the mathematical models of global warming theory.

Recycling human waste into fertilizer may seem like an indelicate topic for polite society, but it’s an important one nonetheless. Like most...

Getting rid of bugs has been a Cook family passion for three generations. Now the family has endowed a museum to put those little...

“See those bumblebees on the sunflowers?” Dr. George Koulianos asks underneath a blue sky near the southernmost tip of Alabama. “This is what I...

Teaming with former first lady Marsha Folsom, this Seattle couple, who made bamboo a mainstay in home flooring in the U.S., are forging another bamboo coup — in Alabama’s Black Belt.

Horace Clemmons and Saul Berenthal are at a tradeshow in Cuba this month to promote an Alabama-based tractor company they plan to build near...

Despite encroaching residential and commercial development, Baldwin County’s Belforest community remains predominantly a patchwork of family farms, most rooted in the late 1800s. Third-generation...

When it comes to the environmental regulation landscape in the United States, one thing can be said with absolute moral certainty — uncertainty abounds. In...

Not so long ago, the big idea was for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System to build a website and populate it with content that...