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Brussels, Feb 19 (Prensa Latina) About 20% of the Earth's agricultural soils are deficient in potassium, which could deplete crop yields and food production, an academic study highlighted on Monday.

"There’s much that we still don’t understand about the effects that artificial potassium enrichment has on nearby ecosystems."

The Guardian article is merely another symptom of the conceit of luxury beliefs that infect the intelligentsia of the modern West, cursed as it is by a Rousseauesque angst about modern industrial civilization. In berating the role of propane, as it does with other fossil fuels, the newspaper betrays a lack of empathy for 80 percent of the world’s…

A slalom skier just achieved a remarkable result in the Alpine Ski World Cup—coming from last place to win. As mountains get warmer and conditions less predictable, expect more freak occurrences like this.

Frances state auditors have claimed the nations winter sports industry is now on the brink of stark transformation, with climate change wreaking havoc on traditional skiing paradises.

Swiss parliamentarian denied entry into Azerbaijan, climate change helped skier win gold, and an expat hit with the reality of Swiss cleanliness.

Iran says it had nothing to do with attack near Syrian border, after US president says Washington will respond ‘at a time and in a manner of our choosing’. Plus, psychologists on the appeal of Donald Trump

The professor of Earth system science on the hottest year on record, using humour – with a little help from Jo Brand – to get his message across, and why there are reasons to be positive

"We can't keep putting things off."

Carbon capture technology or real trees? Where should we focus our energies to address climate and nature, asks CATHERINE CONLON, a public health ...