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Glyphosate from helicopters? What's planned for some B.C. forests
To the forestry industry these plants are pests, but for berry pickers they are important foods and medicine
All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine
The planetwide cocaine supply chain — its production, trafficking and consumption — causes deforestation and pollution, and impacts biodiversity, as do other criminal activities associated with illegal drugs.
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'It's a dead forest': northern bush pilot, First Nations decry herbicide spraying
A bush pilot, hunting outfitter, and environmental lawyer in Foleyet has spent almost 20 years asking the provincial government to stop spraying chemical herbicides over Ontario forests.
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Timber tax cuts cost Oregon towns billions. Then polluted water drove up the price
Rural communities in Oregon paid millions of dollars for clean, safe drinking water because the state didn’t protect their watersheds from logging-related contamination.
Changing climate creates ideal conditions for devastating locust swarms
Scientists, agricultural officers and farmers are struggling to protect crops from a fresh wave of desert locusts.
Calls for end to business with paper giant APP over Sumatra land disputes
Tensions flare after allegations that an APP subsidiary used a drone to spray herbicide on farms belonging to a community with which it's locked in a land dispute.
Conflict between Indonesian villagers, pulpwood firm flares up over crop-killing drone
Villagers in Sumatra allege that a pulpwood plantation company has escalated a long-running land dispute by killing their crops and intimidating them.
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