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  • NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
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    NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
    (161014) -- BEIJING, Oct. 14, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A woman wearing mask rides on a smog-shrouded road in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 14, 2016. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong) (ry)
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  • NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
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    NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
    (161014) -- BEIJING, Oct. 14, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Buildings are shrouded in smog in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 14, 2016. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang) (ry)
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  • NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
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    NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
    (161014) -- BEIJING, Oct. 14, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Vehicles run on a smog-shrouded road in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 14, 2016. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong) (ry)
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  • NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
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    NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
    (161014) -- BEIJING, Oct. 14, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Vehicles run on a smog-shrouded road in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 14, 2016. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang) (ry)
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  • NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
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    NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
    (161013) -- BEIJING, Oct. 13, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Oct. 13, 2016 shows a highway shrouded in smog in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 13, 2016. A blue alert for air pollution was issued on Thursday in Beijing. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli) (zyd)
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  • NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
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    NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
    (161013) -- BEIJING, Oct. 13, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Oct. 13, 2016 shows buildings shrouded in smog in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 13, 2016. A blue alert for air pollution was issued on Thursday in Beijing. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli) (zyd)
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  • NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
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    NEWS - China: Smog über Peking
    (161013) -- BEIJING, Oct. 13, 2016 (Xinhua) -- People wearing masks walk on the street in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 13, 2016. A blue alert for air pollution was issued on Thursday in Beijing. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli) (zyd)
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  • NEWS - Zika Virus: 1581 Babys mit Mikrozephalie behinderung seit Oktober 2015
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    NEWS - Zika Virus: 1581 Babys mit Mikrozephalie behinderung seit Oktober 2015
    (160616) -- RIO DE JANEIRO, June 16, 2016 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Feb. 4, 2016, shows baby Luiz Philipe, who was born with microcephaly, being held by his mother Pollyana Rabello, in their house in Marica, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Brazil has confirmed 1,581 cases of microcephaly related to the Zika virus since October last year, the Health Ministry said on June 15, 2016. (Xinhua/Daniel Castelo Branco/Agencia o Dia/AGENCIA ESTADO)
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  • NEWS - Zika Virus: 1581 Babys mit Mikrozephalie behinderung seit Oktober 2015
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    NEWS - Zika Virus: 1581 Babys mit Mikrozephalie behinderung seit Oktober 2015
    (160616) -- RIO DE JANEIRO, June 16, 2016 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on March 9, 2016, of Luiz Philipe, who was born with microcephaly, sleeping in his house in Marica, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Brazil has confirmed 1,581 cases of microcephaly related to the Zika virus since October last year, the Health Ministry said on June 15, 2016. (Xinhua/Estefan Radovicz/Agencia o Dia/AGENCIA ESTADO)

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  • 'Live sick or flee': pollution fears for El Salvador's rivers as mining ban lifted
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    'Live sick or flee': pollution fears for El Salvador's rivers as mining ban lifted
    The landmark prohibition on mining in 2017, a world first, has been reversed by authoritarian leader Nayib Bukele but the move has met fierce resistance from environmentalists.

    On 23 December, its congress voted to overturn the ban on metals mining, a move championed by the hardline president, Nayib Bukele, who is prioritising economic growth over environmental concerns.

    A polluted river in Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador on December 5th, 2024.

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  • 'Live sick or flee': pollution fears for El Salvador's rivers as mining ban lifted
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    'Live sick or flee': pollution fears for El Salvador's rivers as mining ban lifted
    The landmark prohibition on mining in 2017, a world first, has been reversed by authoritarian leader Nayib Bukele but the move has met fierce resistance from environmentalists.

    On 23 December, its congress voted to overturn the ban on metals mining, a move championed by the hardline president, Nayib Bukele, who is prioritising economic growth over environmental concerns.

    The river in Santa Rosa de Lima, with runoff from a mine on December 5th, 2024.
    Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador.

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  • Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother Rosamun to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution
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    Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother Rosamun to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution
    UK government offers undisclosed sum in compensation to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah for daughter's untimely death.

    Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said every child had a right to breathe clean air, 'no matter where they live, their ethnic background or their economic status'.

    Rosamun Kissi-Debrah, mother of Ella Kissi-Debrah air pollution case has been settled with three government departments, namely: the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Department for Transport (DoT) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)

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  • Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother Rosamun to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution
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    Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother Rosamun to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution
    UK government offers undisclosed sum in compensation to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah for daughter's untimely death.

    Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said every child had a right to breathe clean air, 'no matter where they live, their ethnic background or their economic status'.

    Rosamun Kissi-Debrah, mother of Ella Kissi-Debrah air pollution case has been settled with three government departments, namely: the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Department for Transport (DoT) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)

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  • Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother Rosamun to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution
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    Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother Rosamun to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution
    UK government offers undisclosed sum in compensation to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah for daughter's untimely death.

    Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said every child had a right to breathe clean air, 'no matter where they live, their ethnic background or their economic status'.

    Rosamun Kissi-Debrah, mother of Ella Kissi-Debrah air pollution case has been settled with three government departments, namely: the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Department for Transport (DoT) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)

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  • 'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
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    'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
    Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.

    Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.

    The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.

    Dayana and Tatiana Blanco members of the Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.

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  • 'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
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    'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
    Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.

    Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.

    The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.

    Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.

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  • 'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
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    'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
    Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.

    Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.

    The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.

    Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.

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  • 'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
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    'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
    Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.

    Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.

    The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.

    Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.

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  • 'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
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    'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
    Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.

    Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.

    The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.

    Dayana Blanco founder of Team Uru Uru looking at native plants called totora (Schoenoplectus californicus Ð a bulrush that grows in lakes and marshes in the Americas). - Team Uru Uru is a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.

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  • How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution
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    How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution
    Desperate to restore the Chao Praya River to a pristine state, an abbot in the Thai capital began recycling in his temple. Now he has a floating ally in his efforts to clean up the river.

    The Chao Phraya River is the largest waterway flowing through central Thailand.

    In Bangkok, it is an artery for a network of water buses, ferries and wooden long-tail boats. But it's not just carrying people. According to research by the Rotterdam-based non-profit organisation Ocean Cleanup, the Chao Praya River carries 4,000 tonnes of plastic waste to the sea every year.

    Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, walks through Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation.

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    Photo by Lauren DeCicca

     

  • How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok's plastic pollution
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    How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok's plastic pollution
    Desperate to restore the Chao Praya River to a pristine state, an abbot in the Thai capital began recycling in his temple. Now he has a floating ally in his efforts to clean up the river.

    The Chao Phraya River is the largest waterway flowing through central Thailand.

    In Bangkok, it is an artery for a network of water buses, ferries and wooden long-tail boats. But it's not just carrying people. According to research by the Rotterdam-based non-profit organisation Ocean Cleanup, the Chao Praya River carries 4,000 tonnes of plastic waste to the sea every year.

    Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, poses for a portrait at with The HIPPO project at Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation.

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  • How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution
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    How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution
    Desperate to restore the Chao Praya River to a pristine state, an abbot in the Thai capital began recycling in his temple. Now he has a floating ally in his efforts to clean up the river.

    The Chao Phraya River is the largest waterway flowing through central Thailand.

    In Bangkok, it is an artery for a network of water buses, ferries and wooden long-tail boats. But it's not just carrying people. According to research by the Rotterdam-based non-profit organisation Ocean Cleanup, the Chao Praya River carries 4,000 tonnes of plastic waste to the sea every year.

    Seven Clean Seas founder, Tom Peacock-Nazil (black shirt), and Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, take part in a ribbon cutting ceremony on The HIPPO project on the day of its launch on the Chao Phraya River next to Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation.

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - Dead tree's at de Veluwe a 'Natura 2000' area. Nature should be protected by the European administration. Farmers close to Natura 2000 areas have strict nitrogen regulations.

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - Dead tree's at de Veluwe a 'Natura 2000' area. Nature should be protected by the European administration. Farmers close to Natura 2000 areas have strict nitrogen regulations.

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - Dead tree's at de Veluwe a 'Natura 2000' area. Nature should be protected by the European administration. Farmers close to Natura 2000 areas have strict nitrogen regulations.

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - Dead tree's at de Veluwe a 'Natura 2000' area. Nature should be protected by the European administration. Farmers close to Natura 2000 areas have strict nitrogen regulations.

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - Dead tree's at de Veluwe a 'Natura 2000' area. Nature should be protected by the European administration. Farmers close to Natura 2000 areas have strict nitrogen regulations.

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - Dead tree's at de Veluwe a 'Natura 2000' area. Nature should be protected by the European administration. Farmers close to Natura 2000 areas have strict nitrogen regulations.

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - the website where you can check if you have to sell your farm

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - the website where you can check if you have to sell your farm (list on the left are Natura 2000 areas)

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - the website where you can check if you have to sell your farm

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    The red flag is a sign of the resistance of the farmers against the government, many farms have it in the Barneveld area

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live.
    Farmer Wim Brouwer and his calves

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live.
    Farmer Wim Brouwer and his calves

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - calves at the farm of Wim Brouwer

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - calves at the farm of Wim Brouwer

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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - calves at the farm of Wim Brouwer

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - calves at the farm of Wim Brouwer

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - calves at the farm of Wim Brouwer

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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - calves at the farm of Wim Brouwer

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - a nitrogen meter at Wim Brouwers farm

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - a nitrogen meter at Wim Brouwers farm

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - a nitrogen meter at Wim Brouwers farm

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live
    - a nitrogen meter at Wim Brouwers farm

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    Contact eyevine for more information about using this image:
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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live.
    Farmer Wim Brouwer standing in front of his farm (sign says "without farmers-no future")

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live.
    Farmer Wim Brouwer standing in front of his farm (sign says "without farmers-no future")

    © Judith Jockel / Guardian / eyevine

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live.
    Farmer Wim Brouwer standing in front of his farm (sign says "without farmers-no future")

    © Judith Jockel / Guardian / eyevine

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live.
    Farmer Wim Brouwer standing in front of his farm (sign says "without farmers-no future")

    © Judith Jockel / Guardian / eyevine

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live.
    Farmer Wim Brouwer standing in front of his farm (sign says "without farmers-no future")

    © Judith Jockel / Guardian / eyevine

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  • Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
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    Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution
    Government's buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands.

    Veal farmer Wim Brouwer is one of the Netherlands' peak polluters, due to the nitrogen excreted each year by his 1,360 calves.

    His business sits in one of the most intensively farmed parts of Europe's most intensively farmed country, a huge exporter with more than 110 million livestock, including cattle, chickens and pigs.

    Nitrogen compound emissions are a big matter in this small, packed country, becoming the dominant political issue over the course of a four-year crisis. Among other impacts, the crisis has hampered crucial housebuilding, because builders need nitrogen permits from a limited supply to cover construction emissions. The crisis has polarised social opinion, spurring the rise of a new rural populist movement and mobilising environmentalists who are desperately concerned about the state of wild habitats.

    Brouwer says his farm is carbon neutral, but he fears being a peak polluter means credit lines drying up. As chairman of the local LTO farmers' union branch, he feels strongly for others. "Every 14 days, a farmer in the Netherlands brings an end to their life. If a healthy career lasts for 40 years, we’ve spent 10% of ours living in uncertainty."

    A series of supreme court rulings in cases brought by environmentalists have brought the Netherlands to a standstill over pollution. Nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from transport, and ammonia from farming, are negatively affecting EU-protected nature reserves, in breach of EU law.

    Dutch farmers pollution buy-out ruling goes live.
    Farmer Wim Brouwer standing in front of his farm (sign says "without farmers-no future")

    © Judith Jockel / Guardian / eyevine

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