Good Earth - The Durango Herald

One-fifth of China’s farmland is polluted

BEIJING – Faced with growing public anger about a poisonous environment, China’s government released a yearslong study that shows nearly one-fifth of the country’s farmland is contaminated w...

DATE: Apr 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Earth Briefs

Rural-schools committee to meet The San Juan National Forest Secure Rural Schools Act Resource Advisory Committee will meet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 29 at the San Juan Public L...

DATE: Apr 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Activists are dying for our environment

Report: Two killed each week on average

DATE: Apr 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Fish helped grow these greens

Farmer uses aquaponics to harvest lettuce, kale

DATE: Apr 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Is the air you breathe good, bad?

Students devise system to target localized pollution

DATE: Apr 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Solar plane can fly forever

As technology advances, humans become the limitation on aircraft’s flight time

DATE: Apr 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Earth Brief

Prescribed burns set for Pagosa area The Pagosa Ranger District plans to conduct spring prescribed burning operations in the Turkey Springs area of the San Juan National Forest, s...

DATE: Apr 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Warming Southwest spells trouble

Some species to lose major parts of habitat

DATE: Apr 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

What’s your environmental cause?

Sustainability Summit at FLC allows activists to spotlight missions

DATE: Apr 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

In ice storms, trees suffer heavy consequences

Biologist to find which types can best withstand severe weather

DATE: Apr 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Warming worsens hunger, UN says

YOKOHAMA, Japan – Global warming makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said. A warmer world will push food prices higher, trigger “h...

DATE: Apr 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth