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11/05/2012» Keeping our daily coffee: the farmers in Peru adapting to climate change

11/05/2012» Coffee farmers in Peru look to carbon market to fund climate adaptation

10/05/2012» Liu Jianqiang: what it's like being an "enemy of the state" in China

08/05/2012» Environment chief backs gas 'fracking' and nuclear in the UK

30/04/2012» Crisis or rebirth? The future of Ethiopia's pastoralist tribes

26/04/2012» Nuclear waste 'may be blighting 1,000 sites' in the UK

25/04/2012» World Naked Bike Ride: the environmental protest with a difference

25/04/2012» London mayor election: who is the greenest choice?

24/04/2012» Top global brands accused over controversial 'painted home' adverts in Africa

20/04/2012» Charles Taylor verdict could set precedent on conflict resources

17/04/2012» Evgenia Chirikova: 'Putinomics' the biggest threat to Russia's environmental movement

30/03/2012» BP, Dow and Rio Tinto targeted by Olympic ‘greenwash’ award

30/03/2012» Namibia's 'cruel' seal hunt sparks calls for tourism boycott

30/03/2012» Do protected areas for wildlife really work?

30/03/2012» Bottled water industry wages PR battle against tap water movement

29/03/2012» What has happened to the UK’s eco-towns?

29/03/2012» Pesticides linked to honeybee decline

27/03/2012» Ghosts of farming: Britain's forgotten sheep farmers poisoned by pesticides

27/03/2012» UK fights EU attempts to bring in stricter rules on pesticide and crop spraying

22/03/2012» Dietary supplement and functional food industry is ‘placebo-driven’ warns expert

21/03/2012» Thich Nhat Hanh: in 100 years there may be no more humans on planet earth

21/03/2012» Thich Nhat Hanh: happiness is possible without simply consuming all the time

19/03/2012» Smash EDO: the inside story of activists' battle against arms giant

14/03/2012» US-style 'obesogenic' diet being exported to poor countries, says UN expert

06/03/2012» Revealed: the prescription drugs and medications most likely to harm or kill you

06/03/2012» Birth uncut: how women were turned off natural childbirth

06/03/2012» Labour of love: the demise of traditional midwifery

27/02/2012» Are the 'big six' energy companies blocking renewables in the UK?

27/02/2012» Coca Cola responds to orange harvest 'exploitation' controversy

23/02/2012» Humanity has already had four major ecological collapses: how can we avoid a fifth?

23/02/2012» Coca Cola challenged over orange harvest linked to 'exploitation and squalor'

23/02/2012» Activists target 'ethical' supermarket Waitrose over Shell partnership

22/02/2012» UK shamed as appetite for cheap timber sees it top sales of illegal wood

20/02/2012» O2's 'Think Big' ploy exposes limits to the green business ideal

20/02/2012» Revealed: the new species threatened by deep-sea mining

07/02/2012» Battlelines drawn as Cumbrian residents square up over nuclear waste site

07/02/2012» Links between childhood leukaemia and nuclear power plant radiation

07/02/2012» Population is 'our biggest challenge' says government chief scientist Sir John Beddington

07/02/2012» Glencore faces questions over controversial DRC mine sales

06/02/2012» Co-operative, M&S and Waitrose accused of greenwash over close links to 'unethical' companies

06/02/2012» Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering

03/02/2012» Is there a future for carbon footprint labelling in the UK?

30/01/2012» Who are the Mashco-Piro tribe and can they still hope to stay 'uncontacted'?

30/01/2012» Salmonella study accused of 'exaggeration' in new battle over factory farm antibiotic use

25/01/2012» Peru's vanishing fish stocks 'devastated' by corruption and growing fishmeal demand

24/01/2012» Pepper: how our favourite spice is tainted by a deadly legacy

20/01/2012» Climate change sceptic Bjorn Lomborg: 'I'm the victim'

13/01/2012» Amazon 'uncontacted' tribes at risk from new highway plan

13/01/2012» Tainted gold: thousands join protest against Peru's largest ever mining project

13/01/2012» Middle England and eco-activists unite in opposition to shale gas and fracking

04/01/2012» Programmed to be fat: everyday chemicals linked to obesity and diabetes

04/01/2012» The mother who exposed the links between obesity and common chemicals

04/01/2012» Which chemicals are making us fat?

04/01/2012» David v Goliath: Chevron plots to avoid cleaning up oil pollution in Amazon rainforest

03/01/2012» Revealed: the child victims of pesticide poisoning in India

03/01/2012» David Attenborough: Frozen Planet was not alarmist about climate change

19/12/2011» Who's to blame for supermarket rejection of 'ugly' fruit and vegetables?

19/12/2011» The world's 'alternative' Nobel Prize: an award fit for the 21st century

16/12/2011» Advertising makes us 'more individualistic' and less concerned about the planet, says report

15/12/2011» Biofuels not food the biggest driver of 'land grabbing' deals, says report

12/12/2011» Warning as infectious salmon disease spreads from Europe's fish farms to Canada

12/12/2011» Will London 2012 sponsors BP, Dow, EDF and Rio Tinto tarnish the Olympic brand?

08/12/2011» UK uses EU 'loophole' to delay tackling air pollution in London

07/12/2011» Can GM-free biofortified crops succeed after Golden Rice controversy?

07/12/2011» Occupy protests: a four step guide to bypassing high-street banks

06/12/2011» Global Witness quits Kimberley Process as Zimbabwe 'blood diamonds' exported

02/12/2011» Biomass is the next biofuel 'land grab' on tropical forests, warn campaigners

01/12/2011» On patrol with Zimbabwe's wildlife defenders: the last hope for black rhinos?

29/11/2011» Artist attempts takeover of BP with sales of 'oil spill art'

25/11/2011» The carbon con: the true cost of offsetting

25/11/2011» UN-backed coal power station linked to deforestation and land grabbing

25/11/2011» What's happened to Guyana's rainforest deal with Norway?

16/11/2011» Common infections will be 'untreatable' if antibiotic misuse continues

07/11/2011» Monsanto, Bayer and Dow face trial for 'systematic human rights abuses'

07/11/2011» The hidden costs of gold: mercury poisoning blights mining communities

07/11/2011» Revealed: the secret horror of the world's 'mega' factory farms

03/11/2011» Durban climate change conference: is it time to forget about 2C of warming?

02/11/2011» Durban climate change conference: 'Sideline the UN' says leading academic

01/11/2011» Beyond climategate: can we keep the politics and science of climate forecasting separate?

01/11/2011» Shale gas fracking 'probable' cause of Lancashire quakes

31/10/2011» US-style 'mega' Foston pig farm could still be halted says Soil Association

25/10/2011» Occupy the Streets: voices from inside the London protest

24/10/2011» Freedom food: the organic farmers who took on the Italian mafia

21/10/2011» Brazil’s Forest Code: call for farmers to be paid to protect Amazon

14/10/2011» Putin’s Russia will lead a ‘new era of Arctic industrialisation’

14/10/2011» How oil and corruption have become so closely linked

14/10/2011» Arctic will become 'more of a Mediterranean than a frozen border'

11/10/2011» How India squared up to Monsanto’s 'biopiracy'

07/10/2011» Bitter harvest: how exploitation and abuse stalks migrant workers on UK farms

07/10/2011» Inside the salad 'mega-farm' supplying the UK's appetite for lettuce

03/10/2011» Our sugarcane is greener than your corn: Brazil takes on US biofuel industry

27/09/2011» Europe's prawn obsession 'devastating' local communities in Bangladesh

27/09/2011» Melting chocolate: climate change threatens West Africa's cocoa dominance

22/09/2011» Salmon farm threatens Scottish island of Eigg's green credentials

14/09/2011» Space junk: we're on a collision course in outer space

14/09/2011» UK fashion retailers struggle with 'bonded' girl labour in India

07/09/2011» Banks should end 'secretive' trade in food commodities

07/09/2011» How Goldman Sachs started the food speculation frenzy

07/09/2011» Mexico's corn heritage eroded by free-trade and food speculation

06/09/2011» Does Kenya need GM crops as it battles famine in the Horn of Africa?

31/08/2011» China exports its environmental problems as consumer culture booms

29/08/2011» Scandal of the 'tomato slaves' harvesting crop exported to UK

29/08/2011» Chemical warfare: the horrific birth defects linked to tomato pesticides

29/08/2011» Bamboo: can it live up to the 'green gold' hype?

23/08/2011» Tesco and Starbucks feel the heat in battle against 'clone town Britain'

17/08/2011» Illegal ivory openly on sale in Chinese cities

16/08/2011» GM corn being developed for fuel instead of food

15/08/2011» Belo Monte dam marks a troubling new era in Brazil's attitude to its rainforest

11/08/2011» The mission to build a toilet that utilises human poo

05/08/2011» Export of Zimbabwean diamonds threatens ethical jewellery trade

29/07/2011» Why 'long-life' sandwiches could be bad for health and the environment

29/07/2011» Public sector should develop GM crops for seed companies, says leading researcher

25/07/2011» Air pollution may be ‘health timebomb’ for London’s deprived children

20/07/2011» Lamb, beef and cheese have largest food footprint

19/07/2011» Sceptics told they'd be 'foolish' to ignore potential of geoengineering

14/07/2011» Organic movement fights 'supermarket takeover' of ideals

14/07/2011» Quebec to beat California in setting up first carbon market in North America

13/07/2011» UK government announces plan to cull badgers

13/07/2011» Experts hail world's first 'sustainable industrial fishery' for tuna

12/07/2011» Can the palm oil we eat ever be wildlife-friendly?

08/07/2011» Revealed: UK fish and chips linked to Icelandic whale slaughter

05/07/2011» Greenwash and spin: palm oil lobby targets its critics

01/07/2011» Britain's richest man to build giant Arctic iron ore mine

01/07/2011» Plans to strip mine the moon may soon be more than just science-fiction

30/06/2011» Greenpeace takes on Monsanto over 'pesticides arms race'

28/06/2011» Contaminated Bayer site houses get green light despite 'health risks'

24/06/2011» Peak oil is 'getting closer' but the world is not ready

23/06/2011» European airlines to start controversial biofuel-powered flights

23/06/2011» Don't believe the spin on thorium being a ‘greener’ nuclear option

22/06/2011» Trial of anti-aphid GM wheat awaits government green light

13/06/2011» Black carbon: how reducing it could slow global warming and lift the Asian smog

13/06/2011» Warning over REDD projects excluding rural poor from forests

13/06/2011» UK ministers ignored 'peak oil' warnings, report shows

10/06/2011» Barclays, HSBC and RBS linked to 'dirty financing' for fossil fuels

08/06/2011» Seagrass meadows remain 'forgotten' in conservation debate

07/06/2011» A guide to food speculation: how to argue with a banker

06/06/2011» Do mobile phones really cause cancer?

03/06/2011» Scramble for Arctic oil and gas puts pristine ecosystem at risk

02/06/2011» 'Routine antibiotic use' linked to new MRSA strain found in UK dairy cows

02/06/2011» UK scientists launch scathing criticism of EU biofuel targets

31/05/2011» Madagascar fears repeat of Canada's tar sands devastation

30/05/2011» Record carbon emissions leave climate on the brink

25/05/2011» Is the Amazon heading towards a 'tipping point' as a carbon sink?

25/05/2011» Amazon rainforest activist killed after ambush

20/05/2011» Popular antibiotic ciprofloxacin linked to UK deaths

20/05/2011» Adverse reactions lead US patients to ask 'just how safe are antibiotics?'

20/05/2011» Overuse of drugs in animal farming linked to growing antibiotic-resistance in humans

19/05/2011» 'Underhand tactics and smear campaign' alleged over controversial Tesco store

13/05/2011» UK company implicated in toxic e-waste trail from London to West Africa

06/05/2011» Should future generations be forced to deal with our nuclear legacy?

06/05/2011» Conservation International 'agreed to greenwash arms company'

05/05/2011» How one town foiled energy giant ‘bribes’ over renewable grid

03/05/2011» Battery rabbit farm proposals could see return of fur farming to UK

03/05/2011» Wind industry and Decc urged to come clean on output of wind farms

03/05/2011» PHOTO STORY: Drought, food insecurity and desertification blight Niger

18/04/2011» Solar power: a niche or serious energy source for the UK?

15/04/2011» How trams could save us from the ‘tyranny of the car’

15/04/2011» Illegal European fishing contributing to poverty and piracy in Africa

15/04/2011» Germany joins up with Lufthansa to sponsor biofuel six times worse than fossil fuels

13/04/2011» Only a quarter of UK population concerned about climate change

12/04/2011» PG Tips and Lipton tea hit by 'sexual harassment and poor conditions' claims

12/04/2011» Revealed: the bitter taste of Cambodia’s sugar boom

12/04/2011» Milk: why the white stuff leaves a bad taste in the mouth

12/04/2011» Environmental damage and human rights abuses blight global tea sector

12/04/2011» Sugar: why our favourite spoonful is not so sweet

08/04/2011» Do smaller trees play any real role in tackling carbon and pollution?

05/04/2011» Disney caught up in carbon offsetting controversy

04/04/2011» Apple: the hidden costs of your iPad and iPhone

31/03/2011» Barclays 'making up to £340 million' on food price speculation

29/03/2011» Europe moves to ban imports of tar sands oil from Canada

29/03/2011» Revealed: how your country compares on renewable investment

25/03/2011» Reclaim the fields: a fight for the landless generation

24/03/2011» Palm oil giants target Africa in 'land grab' following Indonesia deforestation ban

21/03/2011» France pushes its faith in nuclear around the world

18/03/2011» Medical profession 'oblivious' to role of chemicals in diabetes and obesity

17/03/2011» The sleepy Irish village that challenged Shell over controversial pipeline

16/03/2011» Lessons for Japan from the Chernobyl catastrophe

16/03/2011» EU 'ignoring safety risks' in financing of nuclear expansion in Ukraine

11/03/2011» How secretive government agency funded BP pipeline blighted by human rights allegations

11/03/2011» The film that stood up to banana giant Dole over pesticide poisoning (and won)

10/03/2011» Radiation: are we putting our health at risk with increased CT scans?

10/03/2011» Study of spiders shows species may be able to adapt to global warming

10/03/2011» Agroecological farming 'can double food production in Africa over next 10 years'

07/03/2011» Climate adaptation is bringing sceptics in the US and UK onboard - but is it fast enough?

28/02/2011» US battle over climate regulation engulfs vital environmental budget

24/02/2011» The great farm sell-off: Spelman gives green light to agricultural land sale

15/02/2011» Underwater nuclear power stations destined for the English Channel?

09/02/2011» Do aggressive and subversive police tactics put-off environmental protesters?

01/02/2011» UK's greenhouse gas emissions reductions an 'illusion'

21/01/2011» City Airport expansion highlights scale of aviation dilemma

12/01/2011» Contaminated eggs: industrial farming leading to dioxin-type food scares

28/12/2010» Tesco and B&Q join interest in 'Green Deal' to insulate homes

28/12/2010» Species vs ecosystems: save the tiger or focus on the bigger issues?

20/12/2010» Making waves: how the UK is showing the way on low-impact wave technology

13/12/2010» Indian activists risk death to expose illegal logging, pollution and mining

07/12/2010» England’s controversial forest sale could attract biofuel energy companies

01/12/2010» Criminal gangs cash in on thriving illegal e-waste trade

24/11/2010» Cancun: your five-minute guide to the COP16 climate change conference

11/11/2010» What is the environmental footprint of mega-dairy farming?



09/11/2010» How France eclipsed the UK with Brittany tidal success story

26/10/2010» How deep-sea mining could destroy the 'cradle of life on earth'

20/10/2010» Lack of forest definition ‘major obstacle’ in fight to protect rainforests

11/10/2010» Fears of corruption as REDD forest-protection schemes begin

21/09/2010» News special: Vedanta victory masks threats to indigenous people

21/09/2010» Offshore wind: can we afford it?

20/09/2010» UK farmers face dilemma over 'super-dairy' plans

03/09/2010» Toxic dispersants in Gulf oil spill creating hidden marine crisis

23/08/2010» Climate activism: is the trial more important than the protest?

13/08/2010» 'Fat tax' solutions ignore wider social factors driving junk food habits

22/07/2010» Foreign land grabbing leaves Filipino farmers with nothing

06/07/2010» Biomass Britain: do fields of energy crops spell an end to grazing livestock?

28/06/2010» Severn barrage faces economic rather than environmental hurdles

17/06/2010» Zero carbon Britain: how to get there in 10 steps

04/06/2010» What is biodiversity offsetting and how would it work?

25/05/2010» Mangroves vs airport: Mumbai's development battle

02/08/2010» Do environmentalists and governments hold back sustainable lifestyles?

20/05/2010» BP oil spill: can environmental crime ever be made to pay?

12/05/2010» Police raid on illegal shellfish gang reveals 'national problem'

10/05/2010» The damage caused by Singapore's insatiable thirst for land

23/04/2010» Seeking status: embracing our selfish motives for buying green

23/04/2010» Dead Sea pipeline plan an ‘ecological disaster’

14/04/2010» Election 2010: a manifesto checklist for the environment

07/04/2010» Have we got it right on meat and greenhouse gas emissions?



29/03/2010» UK conservation 'pointless' without tackling African climate change

25/03/2010» Budget 2010: good news for wind; bad news for green transport

22/03/2010» AUDIO: What does the new Feed-in Tariff mean for households?

12/03/2010» Bluefin tuna: can trade bans protect our fisheries?

10/03/2010» How a 22-year-old student uncovered peak oil fraud

01/03/2010» Shipbreaking: clampdown in Asia will send it to Africa

25/02/2010» UK wildlife becoming the ‘living dead’

12/02/2010» Methane: the quick fix for global warming?

10/02/2010» What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?

02/02/2010» How the legal system is preventing environmental justice

28/01/2010» Is aid without climate adaptation a waste of time?

19/01/2010» The open-source hydrogen car set to change the industry

12/01/2010» When will we see green jobs in the UK?

18/12/2009» Blackwashing: do NGO tactics risk long term public trust?

18/12/2009» Carbon emissions: the world in 2010

16/12/2009» Carbon: from pollutant to potential resource

15/12/2009» Copenhagen: peasant farmers can save the planet

14/12/2009» Copenhagen could lead to increase in intensive farming

11/12/2009» Audio: how much meat and dairy is sustainable?

02/12/2009» Climate justice: should the unborn have legal rights?

02/12/2009» Coca-Cola just part of India’s water ‘free-for-all’

19/11/2009» Sticking with GDP could be the best safeguard for nature

10/11/2009» Nuclear gets fast-track, but renewables left with little

04/11/2009» Political 'buck-passing' on air pollution risks lives

22/10/2009» 'Do you want to die?': environmental activists at risk

24/03/2011» Copenhagen and population growth: the topic politicians won’t discuss

19/10/2009» GM-free Europe: how we could still ban GMOs

19/10/2009» Can salmon farming be sustainable?

13/10/2009» Agri-chemical companies are both breeding and killing bees

07/10/2009» Peak oil before 2020 a 'significant risk', say experts

30/09/2009» What went wrong with Freecycle in the UK?

18/09/2009» Good Natured Fruit 'pesticide-free' claims in doubt

01/09/2009» Personal carbon trading: the next step in tackling carbon emissions?

26/08/2009» Teddy Goldsmith: godfather of green

17/08/2009» Will Day: new watchdog chief on GM, nuclear and political jargon

11/08/2009» The psychology of climate change: why we do nothing

03/08/2009» Climate Camp: saviour of the environmental movement?

31/07/2009» Organic food: FSA study leaves bad taste in the mouth

28/07/2009» Local electricity: Africa goes off-grid

22/07/2009» Nanotechnology: are we risking too much?

21/07/2009» Boscastle - after the flood, a green future

16/07/2009» Welsh construction centre leads field in sustainability

10/07/2009» Three positive reports hammer home wind message

07/07/2009» Low-tech retrofit experiment could transform social housing

03/07/2009» Change farming to cut CO2 emissions by 25 per cent

29/06/2009» Reusable packaging in the UK: cost the major factor

25/06/2009» 'Natural' and 'organic' beauty to be standardised

25/06/2009» New offshore wind farms could power every UK home

22/06/2009» Extent of agricultural land-grab revealed on new website

18/06/2009» WWF and Monsanto - is GM soy now okay?

17/06/2009» Aquatic invaders threat to biodiversity

17/06/2009» Pollution may affect pollination, study suggests

16/06/2009» Database aims to stop biopiracy of traditional Indian remedies

16/06/2009» Land in Latin America exploited by West's demand for meat

07/05/2009» The Prince's Rainforest Project says Yes We Can

09/04/2009» Titnore vs. Tesco

28/03/2009» Saving the world with the flick of a switch

17/06/2009» Barack Obama's Energy and Environment Strategy

01/03/2009» Somalia used as toxic dumping ground

26/02/2009» Capital Growth: London’s floating gardens

02/02/2009» Aral Sea - a cause for hope?

27/01/2009» Severn barrage - is there an alternative?

01/11/2008» A bridge too far

02/08/2008» BAA seek injunction against… almost everyone

22/07/2008» Grassroots Protect Rainforest Shoots

09/07/2008» A load of hot air?

09/07/2008» Trump's Aberdeen Golf Course Proposal Awaits Acceptance

12/06/2008» TV chef raises £87,000 to pay Tesco for shareholders resolution

06/06/2008» Hedge funds for forests?

01/06/2008» Desalination - pros and cons of a typically thorny issue.

15/05/2008» I love incinerators

01/05/2008» Hydroponics in the city

01/04/2008» Slippery territory

09/08/2007» BAA on the run

06/08/2007» BAA win limited injunction

19/04/2007» Earth Day 2007

02/04/2007» nPower faces prosecution over tree felling

29/03/2007» The Sustainable Communities Bill: is this the most significant piece of legislation this decade?

23/03/2007» The Ecologist's 'Real Green Budget'

23/03/2007» Radley Lakes

22/03/2007» Water, water, nowhere...

01/03/2007» Green groups set tests for environmental leadership

22/02/2007» Direct action group 'London Rising Tide' on carbon off-setting

14/02/2007» Britain's Children: Unhealthy and Unloved

16/01/2007» On the EDGE

16/11/2006» Downing Street Demonstration: Leo Hickman, Plane Stupid

01/07/2003» Some GM questions answered

01/06/2003» Corporate muscle

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