Tag: fields
Goodbye loose glitter and rubber grit from sports fields – the EU plans to ban the sale of products containing microplastics
Microplastic ends up in animals, and thus also in food. According to the EU, the new plans should prevent the release of around half a million tons of microplastics into…
Hemp at home: sustainable building materials grow on fields in Utrecht
A plant that absorbs Co2, grows at lightning speed without fertilizer and that you can also use to make sustainable building materials. Hemp is grown in two places in the…
Here the farmer sprays his fields: “All weeds must die”
Farmer Johan Lindgren in Uppland, when SVT Nyheter visits him, is about to spray his field with the herbicide glyphosate. It is a total pesticide that kills all green leaves.…
Women’s football was offside due to role thinking – the road to the World Cup fields was long and equality within the sport has still not been achieved
Physical contact, bellicose combat, competition, grimacing—all things that did not fit in with the ideals associated with the sweet female gender in the late 1800s. – The women who started…
the lack of rain in spring is felt in the fields
In the three Baltic countries, it is not so much the high temperatures that are worrying, but above all the lack of rain. The spring was very dry and the…
Smaller planes have crashed in fields
A private flight with five people on board crashed on Saturday afternoon near Vårgårda. Everyone on board should have survived and no one should have been injured or needed to…
Farmer Oleksandr Kryvtsun built a demining machine from an old tractor – mines in the fields delayed sowing in Ukraine
KHARKIV A farm called Husarivske, located in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, was caught in the middle of the war. The entire farm was occupied for about a month in…
Ukrainian fields have been ruined for hundreds of years, says a docent of agroecology with a Ukrainian background
In Ukraine, the fruit and vegetable harvest in the Kherson region has practically been lost due to the floods caused by dam explosions. Iryna Herzon, associate professor of agroecology at…
Here mines are cleared from the Ukrainian fields – and detonated
The traces of the war are everywhere in Ukraine – not least in the ground, where lots of mines remain. SVT’s reporter Bengt Norborg and photographer Emil Larsson visited deminers…
Alexia Putellas, the world’s best soccer player, returned to the playing fields after almost a year’s break – Barcelona won the championship again
Alexia Putellas injured her knee during last summer’s European Championships. The star player returned to the pitch on Sunday as Barcelona secured their fourth consecutive title. Barcelona supporters had reason…