Most European consumers' shopping baskets tend to include items linked to deforestation in tropical regions, involving agricultural commodities such as beef, soybeans, palm oil, cocoa, rubber, coffee, timber and paper. These ...
Environment
Jan 9, 2023
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In the latest Journal of Applied Ecology, researchers from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) say a more strategic approach to wildlife-friendly farming schemes is required to recover England's farmland ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 5, 2023
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Wind turbines are built at an increasing pace but their effect on nature and animals are poorly known. Researchers from the Universities of Turku and Helsinki in Finland have investigated the impact of wind turbines on bat ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 5, 2023
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North Sea offshore wind energy is becoming the most important source of energy for the Netherlands. Wind energy is clean and never runs out, except there are disadvantages for the animals in and above the sea, says Josien ...
Ecology
Jan 4, 2023
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Antibiotics are being used less and less in fattening animals. This is the result found by the report, "Treatment Frequency and Antibiotic Consumption Quantities 2018–2021: Trends in Cattle, Pigs, Chickens and Turkeys Kept ...
Agriculture
Jan 3, 2023
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U.S. government scientists warned federal regulators the South Fork offshore wind farm near the Rhode Island coast threatened the Southern New England Cod, a species so venerated in the region a wooden carving of it hangs ...
Ecology
Dec 30, 2022
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Many no-till growers are reluctant to implement any soil disturbance due to concerns about negative impacts on soil health. However, a new study by a team of Penn State researchers suggests that plowing fields once after ...
Agriculture
Dec 23, 2022
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We have little chance of tackling climate change and reducing biodiversity loss without a redesign of the world's largest industry: agriculture and food.
Ecology
Dec 21, 2022
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Over 500 years, the economy developed better in parts of Europe where women married in their 20s instead of their teens, according to a study by economic historians Alexandra de Pleijt from Wageningen University in the Netherlands ...
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2022
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Europe has been gripped by its "most devastating" ever outbreak of bird flu in the past year, European health authorities said on Tuesday as experts study the feasibility of vaccinations.
Veterinary medicine
Dec 20, 2022
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