Intensive animal farming may increase the risk of future pandemics, a new study has found. The findings go against the conventional wisdom that industrialized farming reduces the risk of disease ...

The high levels of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, in the manure make it hard to use it on farmland sustainably, ...

Industrialized farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases because of better control, biosecurity and separation of livestock. A new study examines the effect of social and ...

Plans for a poultry farm with capacity for 100,000 chickens which would have served Eye have been refused after strong local ...

Spinney is the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. Once a dangerous new pathogen is out, as we are seeing, it can be difficult if not impossible to prevent it ...

London, June 27 (IANS) Scientists have thwarted the idea that intensive livestock farming is causing pandemics, and showed that it could actually reduce the risk of future pandemics compared to ‘free ...

Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...

Emma Garnett does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Sue McIntyre is a member of Bush Heritage Australia and volunteers for Landcare Australia. Last week we learned woody vegetation in New South Wales is being cleared at more than double the rate of the ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialised farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...