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Atlantic Rising: creating a fashion for guilt-free fur
Lynn Morris
11th October, 2010
Can fashion fur be guilt free? A project in Louisiana believes the answer is yes - if you are wearing swamp rat more...
Atlantic Rising: sea level rise threatens the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela
Will Lorimer
1st September, 2010
Rising sea levels are forcing the migration of indigenous peoples and threatening the freshwater ecosystem of catfish and piranha found in the Orinoco Delta near the coast of Venezuela more...
Atlantic Rising: Belo Monte dam the start of the drowning of the Amazon
Tim Bromfield
23rd July, 2010
Campaigners fear the construction of the world's third largest hydroelectric dam in Brazil is just the start with many more being planned in the Amazon basin more...
Atlantic Rising: Guyana using mangroves to defend itself from sea-level rises
Tim Bromfield
19th July, 2010
Global sea level rise poses a big challenge for the small country of Guyana but mangrove planting offers a cost-effective way of protecting coastal regions more...
How Cargill is feeding Europe's meat demands at the expense of the Amazon
Lynn Morris
6th July, 2010
Europe's demand for cheap meat is been fed by an increasing demand for soya feed from the Amazon but it comes at a cost - deforestation more...
Atlantic Rising: Water buffalo making no friends on Amazon floodplain
Lynn Morris
30th June, 2010
Water buffalo may not be the most pressing threat to the Amazon as a whole but on the river’s floodplain they are doing serious damage more...
UK conservation 'pointless' without tackling African climate change
Lynn Morris
30th March, 2010
Conservation efforts towards protecting migrating bird habitats in Europe may be doomed to failure unless we tackle climate change and protect Africa's coastlines more...
Atlantic Rising: How sea level rises are poisoning water in Ghana
Will Lorimer
2nd March, 2010
In the latest blog the Atlantic Rising team look at how rising sea levels are poisoning local water sources in Western Ghana more...
Atlantic Rising: Ghana's slums recycle Western waste
Tim Bromfield
28th January, 2010
The slums of Accra in Ghana are being used as a dumping ground for Western consumer waste, including toxic electrical components. more...
Atlantic Rising: Ghana's flood defense plans unfinished
Lynn Morris
13th January, 2010
An ambitious sea defence scheme in Ghana could have been successful but the job is not finished and thousands of homes still flood annually more...
Atlantic Rising: Liberia faces choice between deforestation and REDD
Tim Bromfield
11th January, 2010
If alternatives to deforestation like REDD do not arrive soon Liberia's remaining rainforest cover is likely to go the same way as its neighbours in Cote d'Ivoire more...
Atlantic Rising: Sand extraction and coastal erosion in Sierra Leone
Tim Bromfield
9th January, 2010
Unregulated sand extraction in Sierra Leone is good for business but wreaks havoc on the coastal environment more...
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Atlantic Rising: Life in a flooded slum in Freetown
Lynn Morris
11th December, 2009
Most people love their home town. But what if you lived in a regularly flooded slum? more...
Atlantic Rising: Why Sierra Leone will be screwed at COP15
Will Lorimer
10th December, 2009
The costs associated with sending delegates to a conference like Copenhagen are prohibitive for many countries more...
Atlantic Rising: energy-efficient cooking in Guinea Bissau
Tim Bromfield
23rd November, 2009
Children are learning to use stoves made from cow dung and termite mud in a battle to reduce consumption of timber for fuel more...
Atlantic Rising: Gambia’s national clean-up day
Tim Bromfield
17th November, 2009
Gambia needs serious adaption policies rather than monthly clean-up days to cope with rising sea levels and drainage problems more...
Atlantic Rising: first slavery, then climate change in Gambia
Lynn Morris
11th November, 2009
When your island goes from slave staging-post to an outpost on the frontier of rising seas, fate has truly dealt you a poor hand... more...
Atlantic Rising: rebuilding beaches in Gambia
Lynn Morris
4th November, 2009
In Gambia's coastal towns one of the country's chief assets - pristine beaches - is being steadily eroded. In a move to make King Cnut proud, the government is shipping in sand... more...
Atlantic Rising: planting mangroves to fortify coastlines
Tim Bromfield
27th October, 2009
The world's largest ever mangrove planting project is underway in Senegal, providing work, habitat and coastal defence all in one more...
Atlantic Rising: Senegal's crumbling coast
Lynn Morris
14th October, 2009
When inadequate coastal walls only make the effects of sea level rise worse, is it time to move further inland? more...
Atlantic Rising: Will migrant-watch become a climate-watch?
Lynn Morris
22nd September, 2009
If you're willing risk life and limb on a sea journey towards better economic prospects, what will you risk when climate change has devastated your home? more...
Atlantic Rising: the plan to save Mont Saint Michel
Tim Bromfield
9th September, 2009
France's tourist haven Mont Saint Michel is threatened. A new scheme to recreate the rock will have dramatic, albeit short-lived, results more...
Atlantic Rising: tracing the sea in 2100
Lynn Morris
27th August, 2009
In the first post of a new blog, Lynn Morris outlines how and why she and two team-mates are about to trace the contour of 2100's Atlantic Ocean... more...Members
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