natural resources: 1/10 of 10
How the smartphone boom could damage your health and the environment
Ecologist
3rd December, 2012
Behind the rise of smartphones and tablets, microwave pollution is a serious assault on our health reports Lynne Wycherley, whilst a new Ecologist Film Unit investigation uncovers the hidden cost of tin used in many phones more...
The New Scramble for Africa
Mark Newton
9th May, 2012
From slave labour to armed conflict, our thirst for natural resources has created serious problems for Africa. Pádraig Carmody’s latest book attempts to unravel the moral morass, says Mark Newton more...
Tourism has a negative impact on Laos' wildlife
Dawn Starin
14th October,2011
Tourists eager to try exotic meat and buy wildlife souvenirs in Laos are helping destroy the country's natural heritage. The consequences for both people and environment are worrying, reports Dawn Starinmore...
Water trading: how the world's most vital resource is up for sale
Debika Ray
21st September, 2011
Like carbon trading, REDD and food speculation before it, the buying and selling of water is just the latest example of market principles being applied to natural resources. But just how ethical is it? Debika Ray reports more...
PHOTO STORY: Drought, food insecurity and desertification blight Niger
Matilde Gattoni
3rd May, 2011
In the first of a new series of photo-stories documenting the growing global crisis over water resources, Matilde Gattoni reports from Niger and finds a country struggling to quench its increasing thirst more...
Gold's Costly Dividend: film reveals the hidden side of gold production
Ecologist
21st February,2011
In the month that the world's first Fair Trade gold is launched, Human Rights Watch release a film reporting on alleged abuses at Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea more...
Can British activists solve Middle Eastern water conflicts using permaculture?
William Parry
25th January, 2011
An unreported war over natural resources in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories has led students from Bangor University to set up a radical eco-movement, Bustan al Qaraaqa, to address the issue. William Parry reports from Bethlehem more...
Written charter for land use vital for 'Big Society' management of natural resources
Kara Moses
23rd November,2010
A written charter for land use must be adopted to best manage England’s land resources as part of the 'Big Society', according to academics from the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme more...
Growing conflicts over Tanzania's 'charismatic carbon'
Thembi Mutch
7th September 2010
The country's forests are at the centre of a new global scramble to 'buy up' carbon, but as Thembi Mutch reports, is the process really going to benefit the environment or people? more...
A melted Arctic: gold mine or honey trap?
Andrew Marszal
3rd November, 2009
As the melting Arctic ice cap opens a new ocean to the world, governments and private speculators are rushing to cash in on lucrative resource deposits and shipping lanes. But they may find these virgin waters a dangerous place to do business… more...
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