Category: farming

Dry Run

The mega-droughts in Spain and the US are a portent of a gathering global water crisis.

Outrage Farming

What led the Prime Minister to join a protest against his own government’s policies?

Agrarian Populism

Farmers’ protests are being embraced by the far right. The precedents are chilling.

Shitshow

Toxic chemicals deliberately added to sewage are being spread across a vast area of farmland, with potentially catastrophic effects. We’re suing the government to stop it.

What’s Your Poison?

Why do we put up with daily assaults on our health? It has everything to do with corporate power.

Down the Drain

Sewage pollution by the water companies is just one of the deadly attacks on our rivers.

Meatwashing

Claims that cattle ranching sequesters carbon and restores ecosystems have been used in highly effective marketing campaigns by the livestock industry. Just one problem: they’re greenwash.

The Hunger Gap

A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

So What Would You Do?

Those who dismiss this solution to the greatest threat to Earth systems have a duty to propose a better one. So where is it?

Silence of the Lambs

Livestock farming is responsible for more greenhouse gas pollution than all the world’s transport. Yet governments won’t touch it.

The Coming Hunger

As environmental breakdown threatens to render large parts of the planet unfarmable, how can mass starvation best be averted?

Unholy Cow

The world’s most damaging farm products? Organic pasture-fed beef and lamb.

Shit Creek

New revelations show how one of the most treasured rivers in Europe is being killed by intensive livestock farms.

Muckraking Journalism

When sewage treatment goes right, it’s just as harmful as when it goes wrong. Here are the shocking reasons why.

The Plough’s Share

We won’t defend ourselves from the global food crisis by destroying what remains of our wildlife.

Shitstorm

Our team uncovers the remarkable, but scarcely understood, truth about river pollution.