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We kill 60 billion chickens a year, and their bones get preserved by landfill

Environment

When humans are wiped from Earth, the chicken bones will remain

When humans have vanished from Earth, one of the most enduring marks of our impact will be the sudden appearance of copious chicken bones in the fossil record

News

The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

Humans

The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

News

James Wong: Is the nutrition in our crops declining?

Video

James Wong: Is the nutrition in our crops declining?

Video

Close-up of cow's face

Health

Scotland’s BSE case is a reminder that many more may be out there

Analysis

A plane spraying crops

Health

Exposure to insecticide DDT linked to having a child with autism

News

GM protest

Life

It's ok that the public rejected GM food – after all, we did ask

Insight

farmland

Life

The second great battle for the future of our food is underway

Insight

Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

Earth

Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

News

Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene

Earth

Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene

News

A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined

Earth

A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined

The world’s nations have set up 200,000 protected areas in which nature is supposed to flourish, but in many cases the protection is pretty much theoretical

News

Humans

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

News

Life

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

Comment

Earth

The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

News

Earth

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

News