Supply and Demand of Water
Only 10 percent of Alabama’s cropland is irrigated, compared to Georgia’s 50 percent and Mississippi’s 60 percent. If Alabama’s were 50 percent, the impact would be $200 million to $300 million a year.
Abundance, Droughts and Floods
Great bounty is the median measure of Alabama’s water supply. But a lot depends on where and when the rain falls.
Global Temperature Check
Atmospheric scientist John Christy says two decades of data don’t back up the mathematical models of global warming theory.
Renewable Energy Waste Conversion
Recycling human waste into fertilizer may seem like an indelicate topic for polite society, but it’s an important one nonetheless. Like most...
Nature in Decatur, Neighbor to Arts
Getting rid of bugs has been a Cook family passion for three generations. Now the family has endowed a museum to put those little...
The Pollinator
“See those bumblebees on the sunflowers?” Dr. George Koulianos asks underneath a blue sky near the southernmost tip of Alabama. “This is what I...
Black Belt Green
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.
Creating the Perfect Tractor for Cuba
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...
Louis Lazzari: An Economic History of Family Farming
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...
EPA Obama Environment Regulations Gets Heavy
When it comes to the environmental regulation landscape in the United States, one thing can be said with absolute moral certainty — uncertainty abounds.
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