Chris Slee聽takes a look at a new book that explores the huge environmental cost of China's rapid economic growth over the past 40 years.
chemical fertilisers and herbicides
Alan Broughton takes a look at why the majority of farmers are still holding on to chemical methods and what can be done to increase the ecological uptake.
Cattle and sheep are blamed for contributing to greenhouse gases, belching out methane, and farmers in the future are likely to be taxed because of it.
The recent 麻豆传媒 Weekly climate change liftout [issue #1078] calls for a drastic reduction in sheep and cattle numbers. There is a TV advertisement, urging people to 鈥済o vego to save the planet鈥. This is a gross misunderstanding of the ruminant carbon cycle.