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A volunteer from the North Atlantic Salmon Fund with one of the escapee salmon

Life

On the hunt for thousands of salmon that escaped Icelandic fish farm

Some 3500 salmon have escaped from a fish farm pen in Iceland and now the hunt is on to catch them before they hybridise with the local wild, genetically distinct salmon in the fjords

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Farmland being farmed

Environment

Climate change will prompt expansion of farming in northern wilderness

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Environment

Robots could make farms more biodiverse with precision crop planting

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Life

Egg sex screening aims to stop slaughter of billions of male chicks

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Wheat harvesting in Kansas

Environment

Curiously cool summers in US Midwest linked to crop irrigation

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Environment

Cutting pesticide use on farms doubles abundance of wild pollinators

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Environment

Microplastics found in the soil on farms used to grow crops

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Free range pigs digging food in the dirt

Life

How do captive animals really feel, and can we make them happier?

Features
CF2MRN Sheep grazing on the banks of the River Till at Twizel, a tributary of the River Tweed.

Environment

Farming destroyed UK rivers to meet food demand – here’s how we fix it

Features
Cheese Store at The Ethical Dairy

Environment

Why I can once again eat cheese with a clear conscience

I thought there was no way around cheese being an environmental and ethical disaster, but a new approach to dairy farming has proved me wrong, says Graham Lawton

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Environment

We already have ethical options for replacing industrial farming

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Comment

Photos of solar sheep and an eco-winery capture Italy’s green journey

Regulars

Environment

Vertical farm cuts energy use 75 per cent by using sunlight

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Life

Honeybees benefit from strips of native plants embedded in farmland

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