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agriculture

The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

Humans

The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

We used to think that our pre-historic switch to farming restricted our diets and deprived us of nutrition, but new evidence suggests this wasn’t the case

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James Wong: Is the nutrition in our crops declining?

Video

James Wong: Is the nutrition in our crops declining?

Video

Close-up of cow's face

Health

Scotland’s BSE case is a reminder that many more may be out there

Analysis

A plane spraying crops

Health

Exposure to insecticide DDT linked to having a child with autism

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GM protest

Life

It's ok that the public rejected GM food – after all, we did ask

Insight

farmland

Life

The second great battle for the future of our food is underway

Insight

Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

Earth

Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

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Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene

Earth

Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene

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A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined

Earth

A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined

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Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived

Humans

Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived

Cannabis – the source of the drug marijuana – virtually disappeared from Europe just as farmers arrived, so they didn’t get the chance to grow it for another 4500 years

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Life

To save the insect world we must go way beyond neonicotinoid ban

Comment

Earth

The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

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Earth

Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

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Humans

Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest

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