UK’s intensive farming hotspots have 79 times more chickens than people, data shows

Despite large poultry units being a key driver of river pollution, their number has soared near the Wye and Severn

‘I am always tired’: life in the long shadow of factory farming in Europe

Photojournalist Selene Magnolia Gatti has been documenting the effects on human health and wellbeing of living alongside intensive agriculture

"El Genal ha muerto": un río de Málaga se seca completamente por su sobreexplotación para regar aguacates

La sequía y la sobreexplotación agrícola dejan una postal dramática en un acuífero de Andalucía. "Donde antes había naranjas, ahora hay aguacates. Vamos camino a un colapso hídrico", denuncian ecologistas.

How Does Agriculture Affect Freshwaters? - Europe-wide Study

Historical trends demonstrate a pattern of increasingly frequent and severe spillover events of high-consequence zoonotic viruses

The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on patterns of infectious disease spillover. Climate and land-use changes are predicted to increase the frequency of zoonotic spillover events, which have been the cause of most modern epidemics. Characterising historical trends in zoonotic spillover can provide insights into the expected frequency and severity of future epidemics, but historical epidemiological data remains largely fragmented and difficult to analyse. We utilised our extensive epidemiological database to analyse a specific subset of high-consequence zoonotic spillover events for trends in the annual frequency and severity of outbreaks. Our analysis, which excludes the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, shows that the number of spillover events and reported deaths have been increasing by 4.98% (confidence interval [CI]95% [3.22%; 6.76%]) and 8.7% (CI 95% [4.06%; 13.62%]) annually, respectively. This trend can be altered by concerted global efforts to improve our capacity to prevent and contain outbreaks. Such efforts are needed to address this large and growing risk to global health. Data are available in a public, open access repository. All data and code used to perform this analysis are available in our data and code repository ([https://github.com/concentricbyginkgo/zoonotic\_spillover\_trend][1]). [1]: https://github.com/concentricbyginkgo/zoonotic_spillover_trend

We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist

The dirty industries that dominate politics deceive us into accepting dangerous pollutants such as ammonia as part of life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Animal welfare activists increase calls to ban cage system poultry farming in East Africa

Animal welfare activists increase calls to ban cage system poultry farming in East Africa