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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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-based climate policies have doubled in the last 12 months
Companies need to catch up with new rules, the report says.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why is air pollution in Hanoi causing flight diversions?
More than 100 flights were diverted or delayed this morning as smog enveloped the Vietnamese capital.
Angry farmers invade the streets of Brussels
Farmers are intensifying their pressure on EU leaders gathered in Brussels today, marking the latest escalation in a Europe-wide campaign that has caused disruptions in several countries.