Farming
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Rampant destruction of forests ‘will unleash more pandemics’
Scientists are to warn world leaders that increasing numbers of deadly new pandemics will afflict the planet if levels of…
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Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19
Humanity will be “finished” if we fail to drastically change our food systems in response to the coronavirus pandemic and…
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The new wave of urban farms sprouting strong community connections
While community gardens and urban farms have been sprouting up across our cities in recent years, driven by an increasing…
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Farmers Resort To Euthanizing And Aborting Piglets Under Pandemic Pressure
CHICAGO (Reuters) – With the pandemic hobbling the meat-packing industry, Iowa farmer Al Van Beek had nowhere to ship his…
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Polluted, drained, and drying out: new warnings on New Zealand’s rivers and lakes
Almost all New Zealand rivers running through urban and farming areas (95-99%) carry pollution above water quality guidelines, while most…
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Call for Indigenous burning program used on remote cattle station to be adopted elsewhere
The Southern Gulf Natural Resource Management Group (NRM) started the program to conserve the endangered Carpentarian grasswren, which lives in…
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‘People are angry and anxious’: Adam Bandt introduces climate emergency bill
Greens leader Adam Bandt has painted a post-apocalyptic future for Australia unless the government declares a climate emergency. SBS News…
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Farmers descend on Brussels to demand fairer EU subsidies
Hundreds of farmers from across Europe protested for higher EU agriculture subsidies outside the European Council in Brussels on Thursday,…
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Can charcoal make beef better for the environment?
Mikki Cusack asks whether a remedy dating from the 3rd Century BC could help cut emissions and boost soil health.…
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Goodbye cabernet sauvignon. How climate change will end wine as we know it.
The prospect of hotter summers, warmer winters, drought and violent weather events have caused experts to warn of coming wine…
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Climate Change: Mediterranean, Central and Eastern European countries affected by desertification
Desertification has been a problem for Mediterranean countries such as Spain and Greece for some time, but it is now…
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Disaster recovery from Australia’s fires will be a marathon, not a sprint
Five years later, I returned for a follow-up study. I found some survivors had recovered, but many were far worse…
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From red seaweed to climate-smart cows: New Zealand leads the fight against methane
It is not exactly glamorous work. Measuring sheep farts is smelly, time consuming and expensive. Eleanor Ainge Roy The Guardian…
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What ever happened to the Irish salmon farming industry?
Smoked salmon has become such a staple of the Irish diet in recent decades that when families sat down to…
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Cattle have stopped breeding, koalas die of thirst: A vet’s hellish diary of climate change
They are becoming infertile from their testicles overheating. Mares are not falling pregnant, and through the heat, piglets and calves…
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‘The forest is shedding tears’: the women defending their Amazon homeland
Illegal miners have offered 100g of gold to anyone who kills Maria Leusa Munduruku, a forest defender, indigenous leader and…
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