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The colour of plastic mulches surrounding food crops can enhance the size and taste of strawberries, tomatoes, carrots and basil, scientists have found. Mulches are often used to cover the earth around plants to reduce moisture loss from evaporation and suppress weeds, cutting down on water consumption and care. Previous work by the Agricultural Research… Read more »
Local health authorities could be given the power to force water companies to ‘fluoridate’ their supplies, if proposed legislation goes through. The Water Bill, which had its second reading in the Commons today, stops short of proposing a national scheme to add fluoride to drinking water, but will allow the public to appeal for the… Read more »
