Much fertilizer production relies on natural gas or coal, accounting for just over 2% of the world’s climate-warming emissions, and chemical fertilizers contribute to agricultural runoff that ...

If you don’t the chemical pesticides and fertilizers can contaminate the water supplies. More sustainable in the long run: Organic lawn care can be time consuming at first.

The pursuit of a chemical-free world is insane. Modern technologies like synthetic fertilizer make people's lives better. They especially make poor people's lives better. Banning them brings disaster.

In fact, chemical fertilizers have extensively damaged our soils in Africa. We need to think of our soils in a more holistic way,” she said. The soil health summit by the African Union — which in 2006 ...