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‘Slow, underfunded, and confusing’: Green campaigners urge government to reform nature-friendly farming schemes

The government is today facing fresh calls to beef up funding for its flagship green farming subsidy scheme or risk missing environmental targets and further deepening frustration among farmers who believe...

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China Eases Overall Monetary Policy Stance for First Time in 14 Years

Faced with a faltering economy and falling prices, the Politburo loosened the policy approach of China’s central bank and called for “extraordinary” measures.China’s ruling Politburo loosened the country’s overall monetary policy on Monday for the first time in 14 years, the…

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Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Got Drier in Recent Decades, U.N. Says

Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions on every continent, scientists said in a new report, as talks on halting desertification were underway in Saudi Arabia.From the American West to eastern China, more than three-quarters of Earth’s land became persistently drier…

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Britain’s Flawed Jobs Reports Leave Economists ‘Second-Guessing’

Officials are grappling with an incomplete picture of Britain’s labor market as the national statistics agency strains to improve data quality.An essential ingredient in economic policymaking, from interest rates to government spending, is reliable data. But government officials, economists and other…

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