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 <title><![CDATA[Keeping our daily coffee: the farmers in Peru adapting to climate change]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 09:04 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Shade-grown, hand picked coffee is one of Peru's biggest exports, but the country's smallholder farmers face sustained crop losses from extreme weather. Matilda Lee reports from Peru]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Coffee farmers in Peru look to carbon market to fund climate adaptation]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 09:03 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Coffee brands' project aims to stop slash and burn farming by linking local reforestation to the international carbon market. Matilda Lee reports from Peru]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Liu Jianqiang: what it's like being an "enemy of the state" in China]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:51 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Tom Levitt speaks to one of China's most respected investigative journalists Liu Jianqiang on the rise of environmental activism and how he became an 'enemy of the state']]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Environment chief backs gas 'fracking' and nuclear in the UK]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 08:58 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Lord Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency, joins the calls for a gas 'fracking' boom, saying it would provide 'energy security' ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Crisis or rebirth? The future of Ethiopia's pastoralist tribes]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:24 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Pastoralism is in crisis across Africa. But it could yet survive as the best available defence against climate change and famine. Tom Levitt reports from southern Ethiopia]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Nuclear waste 'may be blighting 1,000 sites' in the UK]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:34 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[MoD under fire after DECC report finds number of sites contaminated with radioactive waste is far higher than previously estimated]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[World Naked Bike Ride: the environmental protest with a difference]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:31 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[How a seemingly jovial naked bike ride protest can bring key environmental issues like oil and car dependency to new audiences]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[London mayor election: who is the greenest choice?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:31 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[With Londoners due to go to the polls to elect a mayor for the next four years, the Ecologist analyses the policies and asks, who is the greenest choice?]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Top global brands accused over controversial 'painted home' adverts in Africa]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:21 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Global brands, including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Vodafone offer African township residents a ‘lick of paint’ in exchange for turning their homes into advertisements]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Charles Taylor verdict could set precedent on conflict resources]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:41 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The trial of the ex-Liberian President - accused of purchasing arms with funds from the illegal timber and diamond trade - could lead to a wave of prosecutions using the 'pillage' theory]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Evgenia Chirikova: 'Putinomics' the biggest threat to Russia's environmental movement]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:29 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA['We all live in Khimki Forest' has become the rallying cry of a local forest defense campaign. Goldman Prize winner Evgenia Chirikova describes what it's like to be green in Russia the why a culture of impunity and corruption risks destroying the country's natural heritage ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[BP, Dow and Rio Tinto targeted by Olympic ‘greenwash’ award]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:34 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Row over ‘unethical’ London 2012 sponsorship continues as campaigners target BP, Rio Tinto and Dow Chemicals]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Namibia's 'cruel' seal hunt sparks calls for tourism boycott]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:34 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In the lead up to the new seal hunting season, activists have expressed dismay over the failure of Namibia to halt its annual slaughter of 91,000 Cape Fur seals<br/>]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Do protected areas for wildlife really work?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:33 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Can national parks and marine protected areas safeguard endangered wildlife against the growing pressures of population growth and climate change? ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bottled water industry wages PR battle against tap water movement]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:32 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Worried by an eco backlash, the bottled water industry is waging a PR battle to turn the public back onto plastic bottled water]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[What has happened to the UK’s eco-towns?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:57 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Although currently out-of-favour with the UK government, eco-towns may still offer the best hope for creating sustainable communities]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Pesticides linked to honeybee decline]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:57 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The first study conducted in a natural environment has shown that systemic pesticides damage bees' ability to navigate]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Ghosts of farming: Britain's forgotten sheep farmers poisoned by pesticides]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:24 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[  Government orders to use dangerous organophosphate chemicals left hundreds of sheep farmers with debilitating ill health, Tom Levitt reports on the UK's forgotten pesticide tragedy<br/><br/>]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[UK fights EU attempts to bring in stricter rules on pesticide and crop spraying]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:30 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[UK opposition to restricting the use of pesticides in the 1990s and 00s has at times even seen the intervention of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown to lobby the case for the farming industry]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Dietary supplement and functional food industry is ‘placebo-driven’ warns expert]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:12 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Monsanto, Kellogg’s and PepsiCo are just a few of the companies cashing in on our addiction to nutraceuticals - the fast-growing pharma food and supplements sector]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Thich Nhat Hanh: in 100 years there may be no more humans on planet earth]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:36 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The acclaimed buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks to the Ecologist about the loss of biodiversity and why human vulnerability is not something we should despair about]]></description>
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