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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...
Fire resistant: 'Why I went to jail to protect my daughter from toxic polluters'
Terri Swearingen
1st December, 2004
How far would you go to fight plans for a new waste incinerator? One woman went all the way... more...
Poison Fire Interview
Phil Moore
11th September, 2008
Filmmaker Lars Johansson talks to the Ecologist about the making of the film 'Poison Fire' and the curse of oil in the Niger Delta. more...
The eco-shoes with soles of coconut
Laura Sevier
1st June, 2008
What do you get if you cross a shoe with a coconut? A bounty for the feet. Laura Sevier meets Sven Segal, eco shoe designer and founder of the Po-Zu range, who has found a novel use for waste coconut husks. . .more...
Hell for leather
Jim Wickens
1st June, 2008
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods.more...
Manufactured Landscapes
Laura Sevier
1st May, 2008
Ever wondered where computers go when they die? Or what the endless expanse of a Chinese factory floor actually looks like? This film is a meditation on the consumer world more...
Only 4% of untouched ocean left: global report on oceans shows devastating damage
News
15th February, 2008
The North sea is amongst the worst affected seas in the world a global investigation into the impact of human activities on marine ecosystems revealed yesterday. 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...
Chinese children suffering more birth defects
News
30th October, 2007
Nearly 40 per cent more Chinese children are being born with birth defects than in 2001, a new report by the World Health Organisation has shown. 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...
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Europe threatens to sue UK over sulphur dioxide levels
News
4th September, 2007
The Government is facing legal action from the European Commission over levels of sulphur dioxide pollution in East England, the Campaign for Clean Air in London has revealed. more...
750,000 a year killed by Chinese pollution
News
3rd July, 2007
In a damning cover up the Chinese government has used its involvement in a World Bank report on the environment to conceal results that show around three quarters of a million people in the country die prematurely each year due to pollution. more...
Behind the label focus: PFOS
Mark Anslow
1st July, 2007
Firefighting foam laced with this toxic chemical was used to extinguish the Buncefield oil depot inferno, leaving a deadly legacy. Was it necessary? more...
Chinese environmental protesters take to the streets
Sam Geall
7th June, 2007
Protests of unprecedented scale have been taking place in China against rapid and deadly environmental destruction. A new youth movement is taking to the streets and demanding change. Sam Geall reports more...
UPDATE: Environment Agency responds to the Ecologist's article
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
3rd April, 2007
Just over one week ago, the Ecologist posted a story on its website detailing the Environment Agency's failure to sue Monsanto for dumping tonnes of highly toxic chemicals in a Welsh landfill site. more...
US clamp down on shipping emissions
News
28th March, 2007
The US House of Representatives has passed a law which could enforce limits on the amount of emissions made by international shipping. more...
EXLUSIVE: How the Environment Agency is gagging one eyewitness to what is potentially one of the UK's biggest environmental crimes
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
22nd March, 2007
The Environment Agency (EA) is within weeks of letting Monsanto escape its liability for dumping thousands of tonnes of cancer-causing chemicals – including all the ingredients of the DDT defoliant Agent Orange – in two quarries in Wales. more...
Shell must close carcinogenic Philippines depot
News
8th March, 2007
The Supreme Court in the Philippines yesterday ordered the closure of Shell's Pandacan oil depot, which has been responsible for continuing carcinogenic air pollution. more...
Breathe Easy?
Christine Loh
8th March, 2007
With news that storms caused by smog from Asian cities over the Pacific Ocean will melt Artic ice, Christine Loh, the CEO of Civic Exchange, looks at Hong Kong, where worsening air pollution causes on average four deaths a day. more...
Monsanto dumped waste in Welsh landfill
News
12th February, 2007
Chemical company Monsanto dumped thousands of tonnes of toxic waste in an un-lined Welsh landfill site, the Guardian has revealed. more...
Nuclear waste dumped in landfill
News
7th February, 2007
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has been found guilty by a court in Scotland of dumping radioactive nuclear waste into a conventional landfill site and allowing radioactive particles to leak from its Dounreay reprocessing plant. more...
I'm dreaming of an orange Christmas...
News
5th February, 2007
Large areas of Siberia experienced a foul-smelling, oily orange snowfall last week, in what is suspected to be a large-scale case of industrial pollution. more...
Chemically Bonded
Zoe Cormier
1st December, 2006
For the Canadian Aanishnaabek tribe, who live on a reserve surrounded by chemical plants, there seems no escape. Do they leave, and abandon their past, or stay, and perhaps lose their future? Zoe Cormier investigatesmore...
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