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

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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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People in bee costumes hold signs such as

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

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The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

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The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

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

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

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Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest

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Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest

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Cocoa pods

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Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree

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Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly

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Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly

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Variegated green crop circles covering what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas

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If we only ate organic it would be an environmental disaster

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Field of wheat being sprayed

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Ban on weedkiller glyphosate won't save anyone from cancer

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Alexandre Aebi inspecting one of his hives in his apiary in Switzerland

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Neonicotinoid pesticides found in honey from every continent

The discovery of neonicotinoid pesticides in honey means pollinating insects like bees regularly eat dangerous amounts of the pesticides

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Early farmers may have polluted the sea 4000 years ago

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Grass-fed beef is bad for the planet and causes climate change

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Farmland is in retreat. We should make the most of that

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Back to the wild: How nature is reclaiming farmland

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