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Organic farms increase pesticide use in nearby fields, study suggests

Are organic farms ‘pest hot spots’? Study investigates rise in pesticide use in neighbouring fields.

Nature

I went on a hunt to discover the truth about Estonia’s wolf culling

Hunters killed up to 40% of Estonia’s wolves this winter, a quota challenged in court. How far will Europeans tolerate the wolf in our landscapes?

Eco-Innovation

AI robots are patrolling Dutch tulip fields to root out viruses

Tulip fields in the Netherlands were threatened by viruses until this AI robot rolled in to save the day.

Green News

UN marks World Water Day as droughts plague the globe

World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater - yet many parts of the world, including Catalonia, Spain, are observing their worst droughts in decades.

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Green News

Fate of Nature Restoration Law could be decided in Budapest

With seven of the EU's 27 members planning, after months of highly politicised debate, to oppose or abstain over a new law to restore degraded ecosystems to health, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing government could find itself with the deciding vote on Friday.

Green News

Commission backs use of farmland for aviation fuel production

In a bid to cut the climate impact of flying, the European Commission says agricultural land can be used for aviation biofuel production, providng it does not interfere with food and feed production or damage soils. But questions have been raised over whether sufficient safeguards are in place.

World News

Farmers protest in Madrid despite EU concessions

Thousands of Spanish farmers protested with tractors in Madrid on Sunday, as Polish farmers blocked a highway leading to Germany.

Nature

Nature-based climate policies have doubled in the last 12 months

Companies need to catch up with new rules, the report says.

Climate

Bad news for smokers: El Niño is coming for tobacco

Farmers are predicted to lose 20% of their income leaving many to rely on food aid.

Green News

MEPs back law aimed at restoring European soil to health

Governments should be required to monitor in detail the ecological status of soil, MEPs have agreed, while stopping short of demanding binding restoration targets or imposing limits on urbanisation.

World News

Talks between Polish farmers and government reach dead end

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk failed to reach an agreement with Polish farmers to end protests against Ukrainian agricultural imports.

Climate

How an Australian beef farm won - and lost - its carbon neutral status

The farm has been a beacon of hope for the red meat industry, which is under pressure to show that sustainable farming is possible.

Czech Republic

Hundreds of tractors fill Prague as farmers protest EU policy

Farmers across several European countries have taken to the streets in recent weeks as they protest again the EU’s Green Deal.

Green News

Euroviews. In farming, genomic techniques can't afford a repeat of GMO rejection

NGTs give us a chance to hit the reset button — and embrace a technology that can make agriculture more climate-conscious, more sustainable, and more fruitful, Onyaole Patience Koku and Diana Lenzi write.

Green News

Farmers say they’re being tied up in red tape by EU bureaucracy

Farmers have many complaints - from insufficiently regulated cheap imports to overbearing environmental rules- but the reams of red tape set everyone off almost instantly.

Europe News

Polish farmers block roads nationwide in mass EU policy protests

Farmers in Poland have been blocking roads across the country to call out EU environmental policies and unfair competition from non-EU nations.

Green News

MEPs back GMO deregulation while governments divided over patenting

The European Parliament has narrowly agreed to ease restrictions for crops developed using new genome editing techniques, but a German federal agency warns there is no scientific basis, and EU countries have yet to agree a position amid a row over whether the new class of GMOs should be patentable.

Green News

Euroviews. Supermarkets are the gatekeepers banishing people who grow what we eat

Supermarkets offer cheap products, save us time, and let us participate in a globalised market for food. It's just our own farmers, our environment, and our health that have been paying the price, Eurof Uppington writes.

Green News

Governments caught off guard by von der Leyen’s U-turn on pesticides

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen's decision to withdraw a proposal that would have forced farmers to drastically reduce their reliance on chemical pesticides marks an abrupt end to Belgium's attempt to recast the legislation as a tool to promote greener alternatives.

Scenes

Watch: Scientists farm a superfood in the North Sea

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In a region with limited daylight, Kelpinor relies on the technological tricks it has up its sleeve for growing seaweed.