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    ClientEarth lawsuit alleges intensive hazelnut farming poisoning drinking water in Italy

    Lake Vico is a secured mother nature website and a supply of drinking h2o for the community location. It is categorized as a Natura 2000 website – portion of a community of locations secured by the European Union. However, in accordance to lawful campaign team ClientEarth, the good quality of the lake’s drinking water is becoming ‘wrecked’ by ‘catastrophic pollution’ lined to intense hazelnut farming in the Lazo location. Above the last 50 many years, intense hazelnut farming has changed the far more diverse crops that made use of to be grown in the area and, with concentration on productiveness, resulted in high ranges of fertilisers and pesticides to maximise…

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    Lee Schofield on how farming needs to re-wiggle its approach to nature

    Illustration by Anna Higgie “I smell snow,” Lee Schofield says as we leave the car and step into the UK Lake District’s magnificent and numbingly cold Swindale Valley. When I point out that he’s quoting a famous line from the Gilmore Girls, a TV show set in fictional small town America, he smiles with (understandable) bewilderment at the reference. He is not a natural people-person he later confesses, being drawn to the region for its quiet expanses. Yet much like the landscape itself, this self-effacing, reflective ecologist also finds himself in a position where responding to human narratives and emotion has become a defining part of his world. At RSPB…

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