Producing Food
Farmers commonly use this substance to control or eliminate insects that damage crops.
What is an insecticide?
This control strategy involves using natural predators, parasites, or pathogens to manage pest populations.
What is biological control?
These large-scale livestock operations concentrate animals in confined spaces and are known by the acronym CAFO.
What are Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations?
Burning this fossil fuel for electricity is a major source of air pollution, including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter.
What is coal?
These herbicides are designed to kill nearly all vegetation they come into contact with.
What are nonselective herbicides?
Examples include crop rotation, use of pest-resistant plant varieties, removing infected plants, and optimizing irrigation to keep plants healthy (root rot)
What is cultural control?
To prevent disease in crowded conditions, CAFOs often give these drugs to animals, sometimes even when they are not sick.
What are antibiotics?
This type of renewable energy uses turbines to convert moving air into electricity.
What is wind energy?
This 1962 book, written by Rachel Carlson, helped raise public awareness about the dangers of pesticides like DDT.
What is Silent Spring?
Using traps, barriers, or hand-picking pests are examples of this type of control method.
What is mechanical and physical control?
The overuse of antibiotics in livestock can contribute to this major public health concern, making infections harder to treat in humans.
What is antibiotic resistance?
This type of energy can be captured from people walking or vehicles moving on surfaces equipped with piezoelectric tiles.
What is kinetic energy?
This organochlorine pesticide, once widely used, is known for disrupting the central nervous system and accumulating in fatty tissues.
What is DDT?
In IPM, this type of control is often used as a last resort due to potential risks to health and the environment.
What is chemical control?
CAFOs produce large volumes of animal manure that must be managed using these systems, which include lagoons, pits, or storage tanks.
What are waste management systems or manure storage systems?
This type of renewable energy harnesses heat or cool from beneath the Earth's surface to produce electricity or heat buildings.
What is geothermal energy?
This natural insecticide is derived from chrysanthemum flowers and is commonly used for pest control.
What is pyrethrum?
This integrated approach to pest management emphasizes using multiple strategies—biological, cultural, mechanical, and chemical—to reduce pest damage while minimizing risks to humans and the environment.
What is Integrated Pest Management
Excess nitrogen and phosphorus from improperly managed CAFO waste systems can enter waterways and fuel the growth of these fast-growing aquatic plants.
What are algae or algal blooms?
Unlike wave energy, this energy source is highly predictable because it follows the consistent cycles of the moon and sun.
What is tidal energy?