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Dark Clouds gathering
Jim Thomas
1st October, 2008
Do you know where your email is stored and what it costs the environment to store it there? 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 Forest King
Andrew Wasley
7th August, 2008
It was bred to aid the rural poor, but one bird is also helping break industrialised farming’s stranglehold on India. Andrew Wasley meets the remarkable Girirajamore...
Drizzle with care
Laura Sevier
7th August, 2008
With vast areas decimated by industrial farming, the salad days are over for mass-produced olive oil. Laura Sevier looks at the effect its rise in popularity has had on the European landscape, and at some more sustainable brands. more...
How to be free: Get disconnected
Tom Hodgkinson
6th June, 2008
The internet once represented something like freedom for Tom Hodgkinson, but the honeymoon ended when the problems of the virtual life became all-too-real 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...
Behind the Label: Roundup Weedkiller
Pat Thomas
1st April, 2008
A weedkiller that kills a lot more than simply weeds? If it’s worse than the poison it’s no cure at all, says Pat thomasmore...
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...Dark Days for Low Energy Light Bulbs
News
7th January, 2008
This month shops in the UK will begin to phase out traditional tungsten bulbs as part of a government plan to replace them completely by 2011 and save 5m tonnes of carbon emissions a year. However the current crop of low energy light bulbs are coming under criticism for causing skin complaints and migraines, releasing Mercury into the environment on disposal and not being as energy efficient as new LED equivalents. more...
Black Sea
News
13th November, 2007
Russia was facing up to a ten-year clean-up operation after a major oil spill in the Black Sea region. more...
Industrial: 25/50 of 75
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Shell slapped down for flower refinery advert
News
7th November, 2007
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld a complaint by Friends of the Earth against Shell over the oil company's claims that it uses its waste CO2 to grow flowers. 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...
Burying The Truth
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
11th October, 2007
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed...more...
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...
'We're no role model', says Australian green group
News
27th April, 2007
'Don't make the same mistakes as us,' Australian think-tank the Mineral Policy Institue has warned China 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...Members
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