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Greeks reclaim the land to ease the pain of economic austerity
Beatrice Yannacopoulou
10th January, 2012
A group of community-minded gardeners have turned a former Athens airport into a blooming vegetable plot, showing how Greece's eroded soil holds the keys to a revival in farming and a way to buck the jobless trend more...
Selling The Sea – revealing Indonesia’s little-known plans to privatise huge swathes of coastline for aquaculture
Jim Wickens
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline more...
Atlantic Rising: Living on the edge on Nantucket Island in the US
Lynn Morris
28th September, 2010
Homes are being moved and maps redrawn as coastal erosion eats away at an island off Massachusettsmore...
CASE STUDY: Growing coffee more sustainably in Costa Rica
Theodora Tsentas
6th April, 2010
It's not organic but ‘pro-environmental sustainable' farming practices could help coffee farmers move away from damaging industrial monoculture 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...
Selling Indonesia's coast for cheap prawns and profit
Jim Wickens
24th November 2009
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline 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...
Half India’s land degraded: agro-chemicals partly to blame
Ecologist
17th August, 2009
Deforestation, wind erosion and poor farming practices blamed for deterioration of soil as the real costs of the Green Revolution are measured more...
English coast still not open to walkers
Ecologist
31st July, 2009
An audit finds more than a third of the English coastline is not open to the public more...
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