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The Clothing Industry: Modern day attitudes akin to those of historical slavery
By Sarah Compson
In the wake of the Bangladesh factory collapse Sarah Compson implores us all as consumers to take responsibility for what we wear and not to turn a blind eye. more...
Leaked Papers Show UK Government Will Backtrack on Tar Sands Extraction Being Classified As Highly Polluting
May 17th, 2013
By Lorna Howarth
Allowing tar sands oil into Europe would be a victory for ‘profit-before-planet’ politics warns Lorna Howarth more...
UK government failing to protect population from potentially radioactive food
by Tim Deere-Jones
Tim Deere-Jones dissects the UK Government's system for monitoring doses of marine derived radioactivity in food and concludes that the current programme is deeply flawed. more...
Greening of our cities
by Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt introduces Bristol BIG Green Week and reflects on how it is our cities that now lead the way in sustainability. more...
Connecting the Dots: the Big Permaculture Picture
April 24th, 2013
by Jeremy Wickremer
Jeremy Wickremer explains why he believes permaculture offers multiple answers to societal and environmental problems in a beautifully simple and effective way. more...
Cohousing and community on the coast
April 9th, 2013
by Sarah Lozanova
Sarah Lozanova tells the Ecologist why her and her family have decided to make the move from a city dwelling to an Eco-village.... more...
Securing Nature’s Future
April 4th, 2013
by Matt Adam Williams
Naturalist and wildlife photographer Matt Adam Williams asks whether childhood experiences are the key to the long-term health of nature and the conservation sector........more...
The hidden conservation costs of renewable energy
March 27th, 2013
by Luke Dale-Harris
Ecologist writer Luke Dale-Harris questions the ability of Natura 2000 to work as an effective environmental regulatormore...
How meditation makes us much nicer people
March 26th, 2013
by Hazel Sillver
New research proves that a spiritual practice, such as meditation, leads to a kinder world. Hazel Sillver explores a number of different types of meditation.more...
Inuit, the Polar Bear and Climate Change
March 22nd, 2013
by Luke Dale-Harris
What's really behind the sudden global concern over the Inuit’s right to hunt - a concern that swung the polar bear vote at CITES? Luke Dale-Harris reports more...
Frontline Online: Conservation’s New Winners & Losers
March 19th, 2013
by Lorna Howarth
The CITES COP16 (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) has just ended in Bangkok, to very mixed reviews. Lorna Howarth reports on the good news, and the bad. more...
Shades of gray: America's wolf dilemma
11tth March, 2013
Jim Wickens
Reviled by ranchers and fawned over by conservationists, the Gray wolf is highly controversial in the US. Jim Wickens travels to Montana and Wyoming to unravel the complex arguments surrounding plans to cull the animalsmore...
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Fracking hell: the big story
March 6th, 2013
A unique collaboration between The Ecologist and Link TV lifts the lid on fracking and the shale gas boom sweeping into Europe and beyond... more...
Fracking Hell? How Poland's dash for gas turned sour
28th February, 2013
Andrew Wasley
Poland is about to open its doors to an unprecedented dash for gas. But with multinational energy companies circling and widespread fracking about to begin, people and the environment are in the firing line. Andrew Wasley reports from Gdansk more...
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...
Hunting for Pennsylvania’s abandoned gas wells
28th February, 2013
Dimiter Kenarov
Across the Marcellus Shale, most abandoned oil and gas wells are supposedly harmless. But some are leaking - polluting land, water and air - and now there are concerns about other risks, reports Dimiter Kenarov more...
Fracking our future: the corrosive influence of extreme energy
28th February, 2013
Frack Off
Following in the wake of shale gas and coal-bed methane (CBM) extraction is the spectre of underground coal gasification (UCG). But if we adopt these wholesale we could close off any hope of stepping back from the climate change brink, says campaign group Frack Offmore...
Shale gas: the facts beyond the myths
28th February, 2013
Mónica V. Cristina
Natural gas provides an ideal complement to renewable energy sources - not a replacement, argues Mónica V. Cristina of Shale Gas Europe more...
Fracking hell? Britain's gas rush
28th February, 2013
Ecologist
Much of the UK is being carved up for exploitation by 'extreme energy' companies wanting to undertake shale gas, coal bed methane and underground coal gasification extractions. But, as a new film shows, affected communities are putting up a fight more...
Livestock falling ill in fracking regions, raising concerns about food
28th January, 2013
Elizabeth Royte
In the midst of the US domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. Elizabeth Royte reports 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...
How social media is helping galvanise the Greens
January 24th, 2013
by Ben Whitford
Thanks to the Web and social media, environmentalism has become a worldwide movement. Ben Whitford reports on the need now to take bigger risks and have even bigger confrontations more... Cayman Islands under fire over 'factory farming' of sea turtles
Ecologist
10th January, 2013
The tropical tourist destination is at the centre of a dispute over the farming of green sea turtles after animal welfare campaigners launched a campaign to shut the world's only facility rearing the animals for human consumption more... Breaking Congressional Gridlock - 113th Congress
Ben Whitford
10th January, 2013
What do cockroaches, used-car salesmen and root canals have in common? They’re all more popular than the 112th U.S. Congress, which ended its two-year term last week with its reputation at an all-time low. more...
Migrant workers face 'severe exploitation' in Italy's farm sector
Andrew Wasley, investigations editor
4th January, 2013
Amnesty International report calls for urgent action to tackle 'widespread' abuse of migrants in the food sector. This follows two Ecologist investigations into 'slave labour' connected to the Italian tomato and orange harvests. Andrew Wasley reportsmore...
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