– A new study suggests that the increased use of genetically modified (GM) crops across the Midwestern U.S. may be causing a decline in monarch butterfly populations.
– One in 10 people living in California’s most productive agricultural areas is at risk of exposure to harmful levels of nitrate contamination in their drinking water.
– The interaction of warm and wet air from the Gulf of Mexico with the cold and dry jet stream caused an outbreak of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the eastern U.S.
The United Nations' 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
(CSW) opened Monday in New York, with the empowerment of rural women
high on a list of priorities for this year.
– An off-white plume blows from the White Sands National Monument toward the New Mexico-Texas border in this natural-color image from late February 2012.
