The second Silent Spring?: The drive to squeeze ever more food from the land has sent Europe's farmland wildlife into a precipitous decline

Article Abstract:

It is estimated that 10 million breeding individuals of 10 species of farmland birds have disappeared from the countryside in Britain, and there have been parallel changes in many other European countries. The public were alerted to the toxic side effects of organochlorine insecticides in Rachel Carson's 1963 book Silent Spring, and such chemicals have now been phased out in the UK and some other countries. The new losses in biodiversity are associated with the intensification and industrialization of agriculture, but involve more subtle and indirect effects. Although some species have declined, the declines have been reversed in species such as the grey partridge, cirl bunting, corncrake and stone curlew.

Environmental aspects, Biological diversity, Biodiversity, Habitats, Birds

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Ever: picture perfect

Article Abstract:

The author describes emotions and feelings of a man on looking at various pictures of a girl at different places and in different positions.

United Kingdom, Evaluation, Photography of women, Female photography

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