News story about persistent herbicides damaging crops in UK

This post is about Caroline Davies’ article “Home-grown veg ruined by toxic fertiliser“, published in The Observer by guardian.co.uk on June 29, 2008 [1]. I stumbled across the article after stumbling across posts about it on a couple of other blogs [2][3] (further information at end of this post).
To briefly summarize the article in guardian.co.uk [...]

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Wow, that’s a nice map!!

I’ve recently been shown where the state of Montana’s website has a lookup utility that allows you to see the ownership, tax value, etc. of different parcels of land. It’s a pretty neat website they put together, and quite interesting to browse through.
On a (sort of) related note, the Environmental Working Group’s website has [...]

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