Exclusive: Research leads environment secretary to overturn government's previous opposition, making total EU ban much more likelyThe UK will back a total ban on insect-harming pesticides in fields across Europe, the environment secretary, Michael Gove, has revealed.The decision reverses the government's previous position and is justified by recent new evidence showing neonicotinoids have contaminated the whole landscape and cause damage to colonies of bees. It also follows the revelation that 75% of all flying insects have disappeared in Germany and probably much further afield, a discovery Gove said had shocked him. Continue reading...
UK will back total ban on bee-harming pesticides, Michael Gove reveals
9. listopadu 2017 0:47
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Zdroj: The Guardian