Flax
Normandy Notebook, PoetryAlone against the storm she fights while others bow and wait, hide and bend for cover, dares show her face, […]
President Macron’s ecology transition plans: mixed messages
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]Mixed messages from President Macron: what exactly is his plan for France’s ecological transition? During the recent French presidential campaign
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Raise your own: beekeeping in France
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]How about raising your own bees. France actively encourages it. Our local hippy bio farmer lives amidst his various bio crops at the edge of the village. When I went to pick up my weekly basket of his latest fruit and ve…
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Apollo Asteroid 2014 JO25
PoetryApollo asteroid 2014 JO25 is expected to brush by Earth tonight missing us by 1.8 million km. Asteroids and comets both orbit
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Bee-killing neonicotinoids to be banned by European Commission
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]Next month the European Food Safety Authority/EFSA will – according to reports *- propose a ban on 3 neonicotinoids, those
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Controversial weed killer glyphosate cleared by European Chemicals Agency
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]The controversy over the chemical weed killer glyphosate continues. On 15 March the European Chemicals Agency/ECHA ruled that it was
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Going Green? What the French presidential candidates propose
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]The first round of the French Presidential elections takes place in one month, on 23rd April. What do the main
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Bio-boom in France: from Agro-chemicals to Bio farming
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy Notebook[multilanguage_switcher]While the option for farmers to continue using agrochemicals remains open, we all have to remain vigilant. The French Union
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Know your endocrine disruptors
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]The European Commission’s new definition of endocrine disruptors will be published Tuesday 28 February. Meanwhile, let’s take a look at
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Endocrine disruptors: more needs to be done
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]The French Senate’s European commission voted on 12 January to maintain products on the market that Brussels has labelled ‘suspected’
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Train
Fiction, France, Normandy Notebook[multilanguage_switcher]The short story entitled Le Train which you can read on the…
Gardeners beware: labels can lie
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]56.9% of pesticides* tested on the French market do not comply with regulations, according to figures published today by the
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