Black farmers have been disregarded by the USDA for years. Will anything change in Tom Vilsack’s second stint? James “Bill” McGill has been a farmer
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World’s Forgotten Fishes report lists pollution, overfishing and climate change as dangers Freshwater fish are under threat, with as many as a third of global
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Jasmine Harrison, the youngest woman to make the 3,000-mile journey alone, relished the freedom of doing it all by herself It was always during the
Read moreCyprus urged to ban hunting at coast to protect flamingoes from shotgun pellets
Ingestion of lead shotgun pellets from bed of Larnaca Salt Lake blamed for rise in deaths of migrating flamingos Conservationists in Cyprus are urging authorities
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Britain’s top vet was newly qualified when the outbreak hit. Here, she talks about the devastating slaughter and tracking virus variants Christine Middlemiss was a
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