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Environment
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Greenland Energy In order to …
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Food
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Kebabs It is time …
Agriculture
Growing crops on the far north coast of mainland Scotland can be a challenge, with heavy rain and gusty winds often limiting establishment. But this didn’t stop Caithness farmer John Anderson from achieving more than 10t/ha for his crop of spring oats last harvest. And the best bit? He achieved this from just 50kg/ha of bagged nitrogen. The bumper yield saw him win gold for the highest-yielding oat crop in the 2026 YEN Awards, with the variety Merlin achieving 10.09t/ha. See also: Whisky slowdown hits Scottish malting barley The secret to success, says John, is mixed farming and a long rotation incorporating grass to boost soil fertility and organic matter levels.
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Climate Change
Earth and Leaf Editorial – The Doomsday Glacier This …
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Conservation
John Price has land and property worth £25 million. He felt entitled to destroy a river. He is not fit to own any land. I first reported on this two years ago, a local resident was quoted as saying the river is much better. She knew no better. Her house had been flooded before. It will again this time with John Prices help as his land will not flood which used to ease the pressure further downstream. There is an arrogance that persists in our farming community that farmers are guardians of the countryside. That is a misconception which we will help to put right.
Climate Change
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Burying Dead Trees The science …
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Greenland Energy In order to combat climate change we must stop using oil in the vast quantities we do now. In the very long term, drilling...
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Kebabs It is time for lab grown kebab meat. This scandal makes me wonder where the goat meat is coming from. I used to work in the goat...
Growing crops on the far north coast of mainland Scotland can be a challenge, with heavy rain and gusty winds often limiting establishment.
But this didn’t stop Caithness...
Earth and Leaf Editorial – The Doomsday Glacier This is serious for lots of reasons. Antarctica’s fragile environment is being destroyed. Water and ice are the...
John Price has land and property worth £25 million. He felt entitled to destroy a river. He is not fit to own any land. I first reported on this two years ago, a local...
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Burying Dead Trees The science actually indicates, leave them alone. Cutting them down and burying dead trees is unnecessary, will disturb...
When farmland has become financialised in the way it has been because of inheritance tax exemptions, farming can't work, so farmers need to realise that actually having an...
A Tale of Two Chickens is a short film which illustrates how we are paying a high price for food in hidden ways and why we need true cost accounting in our food and farming...
JAVA — Indonesia. Throughout the misty mountains of central Java, the call of the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) once echoed throughout the forest. Today, their voices are...
When farmland has become financialised in the way it has been because of...
A Tale of Two Chickens is a short film which illustrates how we are paying...
JAVA — Indonesia. Throughout the misty mountains of central Java, the call...
The stark and austere landscape of Iceland is iconic and one of the most...
We've been given a chance by our friends at Rewilding Portugal to help...
As tropical forests worldwide degrade and decline at increasing rates, the...
Beavers, which were hunted to extinction in Britain in the 16th century...
