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Topic: Environment and ethics

The AGtivist

The AGtivist investigates the use of contaminated sewage sludge as fertiliser on UK farms

The use of sewage sludge as farm fertiliser poses major environmental and health risks, finds The AGtivist 

Environment and ethics Farming Health
WL Meets

WL Meets: Tim Parton, championing the power of soil biology

Environment and ethics Farming Soil
Features

PFAS special: 12.5 million Europeans drink water containing “forever chemicals”

Environment and ethics Health
Features

PFAS special: forever chemicals, contaminated eggs & the wider packaging problem

David Burrows looks into the insidious problems that forever chemicals pose to our health and environment

Environment and ethics Health
Opinion

News from the Farm – Grievous Biological Harm & banning glyphosate

In the run-up to the UK Gov's glyphosate reapproval, Guy Singh-Watson argues the case against

News

Herbicide linked to cancer used in children’s playgrounds across UK

Over half of children’s playgrounds tested in England were found to be contaminated with glyphosate, leading to fresh calls to ban the use of herbicides in public spaces.

News

Poison for profit – EU exports 122,000 tonnes of banned pesticides

44 Highly Hazardous Pesticides, banned for EU use, are still being shipped to the African continent

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