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Paris, four other French cities ban use of pesticides

Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)

Lille in the north, Nantes in the west, Grenoble in the southeast and the central city of Clermont-Ferrand joined Paris in implementing the ban, citing the need...

China to tap strategic meat reserves as pork prices soar

Sep 11, 2019 (AFP)

Authorities are scrambling to contain the outbreak, culling or killing more than one million pigs, as prices of the country's staple meat have soared amid sever...

Teeth of British farmers show earliest direct evidence of milk consumption

Sep 11, 2019 (UPI)

Researchers at the University of York analyzed teeth from three different Neolithic sites in England. The teeth of individuals from all three sites revealed the...

Study offers strategies for addressing hunger through sustainable agriculture

Sep 11, 2019 (UPI)

An estimated 821 million people were undernourished in 2017, and by 2050, there will be an estimated two billion more people to feed. One way to meet growing de...

Like meat, but not meat -- the latest tech advances

Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)

At various stages of production, here are a few of the ideas gaining attention as producers and investors focus on the booming vegetarian sector. - 'Magic' mush...

Three new viruses found infecting wild, farmed salmon in British Columbia

Sep 05, 2019 (UPI)

How the viruses affect the health of salmon isn't yet clear, but in other species, the viruses can cause serious harm. "Although there's no risk to humans, one ...

Germany to ban glyphosate to protect insects, biodiversity

Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)

The chemical, which is also suspected by some experts to cause cancer in humans, is to be banned by the end of 2023 when the EU's current approval period for it...

Near East livestock ate grain from China nearly 5,000 years ago

Sep 04, 2019 (UPI)

When scientists analyzed DNA from sheep and goat remains recovered from the settlement of Dali in eastern Kazakhstan, they found evidence the livestock were dom...

Clash of cultures as Amazon cowboys close in on indigenous lands

Sep 03, 2019 (AFP)

A few miles -- and a world -- away on the opposite side of the rainforest's delicate existential divide, cowboys on horseback round up cattle at the outer reach...

In Iraq's Baiji, mines turn farms into killing fields

Sep 03, 2019 (AFP)

The improvised explosive devices, planted by jihadists trying to fend off Iraqi troops in 2015, have also discouraged scores of families from returning to their...

Crowdsourced archaeology shows how humans have influenced Earth for thousands of years

Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)

But what constitutes transformation, or even significant human activity, is still debated, and many researchers challenge the relatively recent frame placed aro...

Farmers and animals struggle in drought-hit Botswana

Aug 30, 2019 (AFP)

Around 38,000 livestock depend on the waters of Lake Ngami in northern Botswana, but the animals -- like the lake itself -- have been stricken by a crippling dr...

Denmark halts aquaculture development over environment concerns

Aug 27, 2019 (AFP)

"Denmark has reached the limit of the number of fish that can be raised at sea without endangering the environment... We must be a green pioneer, including fish...

Brazil farmers deforesting Amazon 'to survive'

Aug 27, 2019 (AFP)

"Here we have no support from the federal government or anyone else, only from God," Andrade tells AFP, wearing an army camouflage T-shirt and matching hat, on ...

Global appetite for beef, soy fuels Amazon fires

Aug 24, 2019 (AFP)

- Beef - Brazil is the world's largest exporter of beef, with a record 1.64 million tons sent to its top markets China, Egypt and the European Union in 2018, ac...

Hundreds of Pyrenees livestock farmers protest predator bears

Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)

The decision to bring the endangered bears back to the region was taken "without consideration for the lives of villagers and livestock farmers," said Felix Bar...

French mayor in court after banning pesticide use near homes

Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)

Daniel Cueff, mayor of a Brittany village called Langouet, was summoned to court in the northwestern city of Rennes for imposing a ban in mid-May on the use of ...

UK supermarkets test plastic-free zones

Aug 21, 2019 (AFP)

"Nude zones" and "Food in the Nude" campaigns are already being rolled out in places such as New Zealand and South Africa, where many fresh fruits and vegetable...

Biological clock of plants affects herbicide efficacy

Aug 19, 2019 (UPI)

The death of plant tissue and slowing of growth after using the herbicide glyphosate, known as the active ingredient in Roundup, depends on the time of day it i...

Farmers should share burden of cultivating wild bees, researchers say

Aug 18, 2019 (UPI)

Too often, researchers argue in a new paper, farmers who cultivate habitat for bees go unrewarded, while their neighbors receive pollination services for free. ...