Person: Rachel Carson

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<p>Industrialised agriculture's role in the modern extinction event is well known. <span class="contextmenu hidden">(for instance, 63% of Ireland's bird species in decline). </span>Less well known is the rate at which biocides are also harming farmers' health. Stock picture: iStock</p>

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John Gibbons: Pesticides — the global hazard that is harming farmers' health here and now

Some 44% of farm workers worldwide are being poisoned by pesticides, and a UCC research team is now studying a possible link between such biocides and Parkinson's disease

Fergus Finlay: Rachel Carson still has much to teach us — before it's too late

Too risky to use: Pesticide ban moves closer

I’ve bottled up my anger, but recycling is an ugly business

home and gardens

Lights, wellies, action: When gardening is the reel thing

farming

Do we really need glyphosate for 'safe, secure and affordable' food?

Francis is the first Pope who doesn’t beat around the bush

I don’t know about this Pope at all. I really don’t. He doesn’t fit in the pattern of popes I grew up with, writes Terry Prone

Mon, 28 Sep, 2015

The sound of silence

If measures to make intensive farming more compatible with bird biodiversity are not prioritised, our skies will become very silent, writes Oliver Moore

Wed, 27 Jun, 2012

Royal words resound with harmony

AS OUTDOOR folk and country motorists will have noticed, the density of wild flowers this summer is exceptional.

Mon, 27 Jul, 2009

From chlorine to biofuels, beware of political trendies with a cause

WHEN Eric the Red landed in Greenland in the late 900s he established a farming settlement, with sheep and cattle feeding on grass.

Sat, 10 May, 2008

Long-tailed tit a rare treat at feeder

SPRING may be here, and no real need to feed the birds, but the sight of a new species at the bird table sends me to buy another bag of peanuts, whatever the expense. Long-tailed tits are almost unheard of at bird feeders and so pretty and entertaining that I want to keep them coming. There’s a possessiveness to it — people with garden bird tables will know what I mean.

Mon, 31 Mar, 2008