The Covid-19 pandemic will “look minor” compared with what humanity faces from the growing number of superbugs resistant to current drugs, Prof Dame Sally Davies,…
View More Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warnsTag: Agriculture
Gene editing crops to be colourful could aid weeding, say scientists
Genetically engineering crops to be colourful could help farmers produce food without pesticides, as it would make it easier to spot weeds, scientists have said.…
View More Gene editing crops to be colourful could aid weeding, say scientistsEU pumps four times more money into farming animals than growing plants
The EU has made polluting diets “artificially cheap” by pumping four times more money into farming animals than growing plants, research has found. More than…
View More EU pumps four times more money into farming animals than growing plants‘Total immersive obsession’: meet the man on a mission to record every bird in Ireland
One of Seán Ronayne’s earliest memories is walking in the countryside near his home with his father. “I cried a lot as a child and…
View More ‘Total immersive obsession’: meet the man on a mission to record every bird in Ireland‘They’re drowning us in regulations’: how Europe’s furious farmers took on Brussels and won
On the outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, a green, red and blue stream of New Holland, John Deere, Massey Ferguson, Fendt and…
View More ‘They’re drowning us in regulations’: how Europe’s furious farmers took on Brussels and wonUK’s leading agricultural research facility facing funding crisis
The UK’s leading agricultural research facility is facing a funding crisis with its future work in jeopardy, it can be revealed. Rothamsted Research in Harpenden,…
View More UK’s leading agricultural research facility facing funding crisisBig meat and dairy lobbyists turn out in record numbers at Cop28
Lobbyists from industrial agriculture companies and trade groups have turned out in record numbers at Cop28, with three times as many delegates representing the meat…
View More Big meat and dairy lobbyists turn out in record numbers at Cop28Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet
Cut an apple in half, and the white flesh reveals a cluster of black pips arranged in the shape of a star. It is a…
View More Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planetRevealed: the industry figures behind ‘declaration of scientists’ backing meat eating
A public statement signed by more than 1,000 scientists in support of meat production and consumption has numerous links to the livestock industry, the Guardian…
View More Revealed: the industry figures behind ‘declaration of scientists’ backing meat eatingEarthworms help produce as much grain as Russia, say researchers
Earthworms’ contribution to the world’s grain harvest matches that of Russia, according to a study documenting their enormous role in food production. This amounts to…
View More Earthworms help produce as much grain as Russia, say researchers