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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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Desertification risk fuels spatial polarization in ‘affected’ and ‘unaffected’ landscapes in Italy
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