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Now playing Next Nature Euroviews. Cocoa farmers like me need training and investment to thrive To improve the lives of farmers and their communities and help them earn a living income, we need to stop focusing only on price and place our attention on investment, Emmanuel Nana Sarpong writes. 27/05/2024
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Now playing Next Nature Euroviews. Governments must back plant farming — there's no two ways about it It’s simple: we need to be doing more to save our only home from the climate change tipping point that scientists keep reminding us we’re hurtling towards, Dr Carys Bennett writes. 17/05/2024
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Now playing Next Nature ‘Environmental healing’: Syrians plant trees near oil-polluted rivers More than a decade of conflict has cost Syria at least 25 per cent of its forest coverage, while drought rages on. 20/04/2024
Now playing Next Nature Euroviews. Reckless and harsh octopus farming plans must be stopped Not only is factory farming the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet, it is damaging our planet through pollution, wildlife loss and emissions. We must act now before we eat our way to extinction, Dr Elena Lara writes. 17/04/2024
Now playing Next Climate Euroviews. Every time you blame cows for climate change, an oil executive laughs Of all the climate solutions out there, maybe we should concentrate on the 97% of industrial emissions that come from fossil fuels, and leave the cows out of it, Eurof Uppington writes. 16/04/2024
Now playing Next Green News Soil protection law survives plenary vote, but considerably weakened Legislation designed to bolster the key role of soil in maintaining Europe's biodiversity and climate resilience has been approved by MEPs, but only after the requirements it would place on national governments were significantly lightened. 11/04/2024
Now playing Next Climate Euroviews. To overhaul food production, first we have to convince the farmers Actors across the food supply chain need to be more open to experimentation and implementation of sustainability-minded farming techniques and practices, Robin Saluoks writes. 05/04/2024
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Now playing Next 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? 24/03/2024
Now playing Next 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. 22/03/2024
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Now playing Next 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. 20/03/2024
Now playing Next 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. 19/03/2024