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How the boom in climbing, biking and sailing is costing the earth
Isabella Kaminski
28th July, 2011
In the first of a two-part sport and environment special, Isabella Kaminski reports on how habitat damage, waste, nanotechnology and persistent organic pollutants are increasingly linked to our favourite outdoor pursuits more...
Air pollution may be ‘health timebomb’ for London’s deprived children
Henry Gass and Tom Levitt
28th July, 2011
On-going study of children in east London finds air pollution a factor in lung impairment - but political deadlock and lack of public awareness are holding up solutions more...
Ethical fashion takes a new direction with 'catalytic clothes' that purify polluted air
Matilda Lee
15th July, 2011
London College of Fashion recently unveiled a dress that purifies polluted city air through a chemical reaction on the surface of the fabric more...
Why Glasgow's M74 road extension will increase air pollution
Stan Blackley
28th June, 2011
The decision to press ahead with the controversial construction was the worst environmental decision of devolution, says Stan Blackley of Friends of the Earth more...
Burned: Merthyr's fight for clean air and green jobs
The Ecologist
27th June, 2011
What would you do if an American company planned to site a huge incinerator - bigger than the Millennium Stadium - above your town? How would you feel if you knew that no existing technology could prevent that incinerator pumping out toxic chemicals? more...
Saddle up: how Brighton's bike train is greening the notorious school run
Jan Goodey
24th June, 2011
Come Friday morning and a group of kids and their parents converge to begin Brighton's Bike train cycle to school. Could this be the beginning of the great two-wheeled school run revolution? Jan Goodey reports more...
Black carbon: how reducing it could slow global warming and lift the Asian smog
William McLennan
17th June, 2011
Emissions of short-lived pollutants like black carbon can be reduced and provide quick reductions in climate change and improvements in air quality. The Ecologist reports more...
How to combat the growing menace of e-waste
Anja ffrench
31st May,2011
More robust enforcement of laws designed to tackle the growing problem of e-waste is urgently needed, says Anja ffrench of Computer Aid, along with improved management of electrical waste by governments more...
Egypt faces 'environmental crisis' following ousting of Mubarak
Joseph Mayton
19th May, 2011
The political future of the Arab world's largest country could look brighter following the recent uprising in Tahrir Square and beyond. But the country faces an ecological catastrophe - much of it tourism related - reports Joseph Mayton from Cairo more...
The Ecologist July 1971: Britain’s water shortage
Henry Gass
1st July, 2011
Forty years ago this month F.N. Steele wrote about Britain’s water shortage and about the importance of addressing its causes immediately more...
UK company implicated in toxic e-waste trail from London to West Africa
Andrew Wasley
14th May, 2011
The Environmental Investigation Agency and BBC Panorama use GPS to prove British electronic waste is being exported to poor African nations where it threatens the environment and human health. Andrew Wasley reports more...
Can the NHS ever be green?
Delny Britton
27th April, 2011
Delny Britton investigates the hidden impacts of western mainstream medicine - including pollution from pharmaceutical products, high carbon emissions and adverse drug reactions - and asks whether the healthcare sector can ever be truly sustainablemore...
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The BP Deepwater Horizon disaster: one year on
The Ecologist
21st April, 2011
Greenpeace video released on the anniversary of the 'worst environmental disaster in the history of the US' more...
Do smaller trees play any real role in tackling carbon and pollution?
Chris Baker
11th April, 2011
A study in Torbay is the first time i-Tree software has been used in the UK to establish the true value of the 'urban forest' and raises questions over the effectiveness of smaller trees in absorbing carbon and pollutants more...
The Ecologist May 1971: Trace Elements in the Environment
The Ecologist
3rd May, 2011
Forty years ago this month, Professor Henry A. Schroeder wrote Trace Elements in the Environment, about the dangers of toxic metals in the air, food and water that humans expose themselves tomore...
Out of the frying pan: cooking without toxic Teflon
William McLennan
13th April, 2011
Non-stick pan coatings made from PTFE, otherwise known as Teflon, release carcinogens, pollutants and even a World War One nerve gas when heated. So what’s the alternative? more...
Fukushima fall-out: why the nuclear industry's liability for an accident is too low
Dr Paul Dorfman
21st March, 2011
With Japan's nuclear catastrophe still far from resolved, Dr Paul Dorfman argues why nuclear remains 'economically unreliable' and why it will be the taxpayer who ends up being liable as well as facing all the risks more...
Medical profession 'oblivious' to role of chemicals in diabetes and obesity
William McLennan
22nd March,2011
US officials are beginning to take a greater interest in the reported links between the exposure to environmental chemicals, like Bisphenol A, with the development of diabetes and obesity more...
How one young activist is challenging the oil industry over Great Bear Rainforest pipeline
Eric Keen
9th March, 2011
A remarkable young environmentalist is standing in the way of a controversial Canadian oil pipeline which campaigners fear could become the next Exxon-Valdez or Deepwater Horizon disaster. Eric Keen reports more...
Open letter from Douglas Gowan
Douglas Gowan
16th August, 2007
In an open letter to the Ecologist, Douglas Gowan has detailed a two-year smear campaign waged against him in the Seventies by Monsanto, details of which were known to the Agency and were only revealed when Gowan submitted a Freedom of Information request. Who was it protecting? more...
Silenced witness
Jon Hughes
30th November, 2007
Following last month's exclusive Ecologist investigation, Burying the truth, the Douglas Gowan story continues... more...
Brofiscin: Environment Agency shoots the messenger
Jon Hughes
7th November, 2007
Prominent critics of the failure of Environment Agency Wales (EAW) to pursue the UK’s interests against Monsanto in the US Bankruptcy Court have come under extraordinary attack over the past 10 days. more...
Has the Environment Agency obstructed the course of justice?
Jon Hughes
26th October, 2007
A ruling in the US courts at a meeting which the Environment Agency claims never took place has dashed all hopes of making Monsanto pay up for polluting Brofiscin quarry in Wales. Is the Agency guilty of obstructing the course of justice? Jon Hughes investigates more...
The Brofiscin saga
Jon Hughes
10th January, 2008
The answer to the ongoing Brofiscin saga lies not in the South Wales Quarry but in Doncaster. Jon Hughes explains the complex legal judgement that has paralysed the Environment Agency and undermined its raison d’etre; to make the polluter pay more...
An atlas of pollution: The world in carbon dioxide emissions
Fiona Harvey, guardian environment correspondent
31st, January 2011
Continuing expansion of China has offset the reduction in carbon emissions in recession-hit western countries, according to data released by US more...Members
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