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Chickens rest in their pens after judging has finished in the poultry, waterfowl and produce class at Malvern Autumn Show, at the Three Counties Showground near Malvern in Worcestershire, September 26, 2021
ENVIRONMENTAL group River Action announced today that it is taking legal action against Shropshire Council over its decision to give planning permission for a large poultry unit.
The unit is due to house 230,000 birds, just 400 metres from another site which houses nearly half a million.
The challenge aims to halt the spread of industrial-scale chicken farming in the River Severn catchment.
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
