Britain may adopt new time zone: GMT+2
photo by Joaquim Alves Gaspar (source: Wikimedia Commons) I recently posted about daylight savings time – summer time in Europe – and the difference of opinions between some groups regarding the...
View ArticleUK: Proposal for Europe’s first factory dairy farm sparks controversy among...
photo by MarilynJane (source: Flickr Creative Commons) Is American-style industrialized livestock farming coming to Europe? There are plans to open a massive ‘feedlot’ dairy farm in Lincolnshire,...
View ArticleLatest on Iceland volcano: Navy sent to fetch stranded Britons, Kenyan...
HMS Royal Ark; photo by GeorgHH (source: Wikimedia Commons) The Telegraph reports that the ash cloud from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano that lingers over much of Europe could continue to be blown...
View ArticleG8+Gates? Microsoft founder joins national governments in funding poor farmers
photo by Kjetil Ree (source: Wikimedia Commons) The Gates Foundation is a philanthropic organization founded by Bill and Melinda Gates with the principal aims of improving healthcare, fighting poverty...
View ArticleStubborn Weeds Force Farmers to Resort to Oudated, Environmentally Hazardous...
Image Source: Flickr. By: Bas Kers.How many of you have an outdoor garden? Okay, and how many of you use Roundup weed killer? Although Roundup has a reputation of being one of the top weed killers on...
View ArticleCheap meat kills the Amazon: UK dinners destroy rainforest
photo by Leonardo F. Freitas (leoffreitas on Flickr Creative Commons) Much of the feed for British livestock comes from soybeans imported from South America – mainly Brazil and Argentina. According to...
View ArticleWild boars run amok in Germany
photo by o2elot (Flickr CC) Are wild boars in Germany too much of a match for farmers and even hunters that the German military must be brought in to deal with the porcine problem? German hunting...
View ArticleCocoa genetic code cracked – Bittersweet?
photo by Guy Mullins (dotguy_az on Flickr CC) Multinational chocolate giant Mars, working with the US Department of Agriculture and IBM, have sequenced the genome of the cocoa tree. Rather than...
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