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Youngstown: where the promise and curse of shale gas collide
28th February, 2013
Dimiter Kenarov
Natural gas could be a game changer for one impoverished Ohio city. But there are serious environmental and social risks associated with extracting it, reports Dimiter Kenarov more...
Dairy farms suffer in US shale gas fracking boom
28th January, 2013
Dimiter Kenarov
The dash for unconventional gas may have brought financial benefits to some, but for struggling dairy farmers in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, the arrival of drilling wells could be the final nail in the coffin. Dimiter Kenarov reports more...
Frontline Online: Why China needs dissuading from a dash-for-gas energy solution
January 21st, 2013
by Lorna Howarth
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline more...
Creating the future: How 'Zero Carbon Britain' is inspiring positivity in today's artists
Paul Allen
16th August, 2012
The Centre for Alternative Technology's Emergence Summit must develop positive versions of the future, as if we can't imagine it - there won't be one, says Paul Allen more...
TAKE ACTION to start a British clean energy revolution
Mark Briggs
11th May, 2012
Friends of the Earth are calling on Prime Minister David Cameron, and Energy Secretary Ed Davey to wean the UK off fossil fuels and create a 'Clean British Energy Revolution' more...
Environment chief backs gas 'fracking' and nuclear in the UK
Ecologist
8th May, 2012
Lord Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency, joins the calls for a gas 'fracking' boom, saying it would provide 'energy security' more...
A midwife's manifesta on how to have a fearless birth
Laura Sevier
4th May, 2012
Birth Matters, a new book by pioneering midwife Ina May Gaskin aims to empower women to gain control over their bodies in order to have the kind of birth they want more...
PHOTO GALLERY: The Arctic - Treasure of the North
Bernd Rommelt & Thomas Henningsen
1st February, 2012
A new book of stunning photos of the Arctic documents the wonder of one of the last wilderness regions on the planet more...
Middle England and eco-activists unite in opposition to shale gas and fracking
Jan Goodey
15th January, 2012
In a perfect storm, Middle England is joining forces with climate activists to say no to fracking and the UK's much-talked about shale gas boom more...
Shale gas fracking 'probable' cause of Lancashire quakes
Juliette Jowit and Hanna Gersmann, guardian reporters
2nd November, 2011
Controversial 'fracking' technique to extract gas from the ground was the 'highly probable' cause of earth tremors, report finds more...
Fracking Hell – the environmental costs of the new US gas drilling boom
30th November, 2010
Jim Wickens
The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights more...
Lamb, beef and cheese have largest food footprint
Ecologist
27th July, 2011
US analysis highlights the high greenhouse gas emissions of popular animal products in comparison to alternatives like lentils, rice and tomatoes more...
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Scramble for Arctic oil and gas puts pristine ecosystem at risk
Mark Jansen
6th June, 2011
The Arctic is becoming a battleground as Russia, Norway, Canada and the US vie for access to oil, gas and minerals – campaigners fear safety and the environment will be the losers more...
Why India doesn't need World Bank energy funding
Matilda Lee
3rd June, 2011
Ahead of the release of the World Bank's revised energy strategy, the Ecologist speaks to sustainable development advocate Srinivas Krishnaswamy about why despite huge gigawatt power projects, 45 per cent of India's households still lack electricity more...
Madagascar fears repeat of Canada's tar sands devastation
Tom Levitt
1st June, 2011
UK banks helping to finance oil giant Total's exploitation of tar sands on the world's fourth largest island despite lack of adequate environmental controls or regulation more...
Carbon offsetting version two: a greener way to travel?
Valentina Jovanovski
12th May
Carbon offsetting isn't perfect but Much Better Adventures’ partnership with environmental charity, the Converging World, has produced an initiative that just might work more...
UK shale gas boom 'may be dirtier than coal'
Tom Levitt
13th April, 2011
Despite outrage in the US over ‘fracturing’ techniques used to extract shale gas and new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal, the UK has given the go-ahead to companies here to begin drilling. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential unconventional gas boom near Blackpool more... UK gas fracking boom 'may be dirtier than coal'
Tom Levitt
13th April, 2011
As well as local outrage over 'fracking' drilling there is new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential gas boom near Blackpool more...
The sleepy Irish village that challenged Shell over controversial pipeline
Mark Jansen
21st March, 2011
A ten-year campaign opposing a Shell gas pipeline in a remote cornor of Ireland is documented in a major new film - The Pipe - and has become a focal point for a community's right to oppose corporations and central government more...
UK's 'fracking' gas-extraction is not unconventional says industry
Ecologist
2nd March, 2011
The controversial gas-extraction process known as 'fracking' is safe, says UK-based Cuadrilla Resources, and not a threat to ground or surface water supplies more...
Man-made climate change doubling risk of extreme flooding
The Ecologist
17th February, 2011
By allowing emissions to to rise humans may have doubled the likelihood of further floods like those that struck the UK in 2000, say climate scientists in first attempt to prove link between man-made climate change and extreme weather more...
UK's greenhouse gas emissions reductions an 'illusion'
Eifion Rees
2nd February, 2011
The UK may appear to have made great progress in reducing its carbon emissions, but declaring only what it produces, rather than consumes, presents a skewed picture of its carbon responsibilities and the balance sheet more...
Growing pressure for moratorium on UK shale gas 'fracking'
The Ecologist
27th January,2011
Shadow energy minister Huw Irranca-Davies calls for a halt to shale gas drilling after an Ecologist investigation and Tyndall Centre report highlight environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing more... UK urged to ban controversial 'fracking' gas-extraction
Tom Levitt
17th January, 2011
Gas extraction plans underway in Lancashire would pose a serious risk of contaminating ground and surface waters, says Tyndall Centre report more...
Freshwater lakes and rivers contributing to climate change
Tom Levitt
12th January, 2011
Study estimates emissions of methane from freshwater systems to be 103 million tonnes per year - equivalent to 25 per cent of all the carbon dioxide absorbed by the world's land areas more...Members
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