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Frontline Online: Why China needs dissuading from a dash-for-gas energy solution
January 21st, 2013
by Lorna Howarth
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline more...
The global cost of China's destruction of the 'roof of the world'
Sylvia Downes
11th May, 2012
China's least talked about crime against Tibet is the damage to the Tibetan plateau: dams, deforestation, mining, poaching and the dumping of nuclear waste. And it is impacting on all of us more...
Liu Jianqiang: fighting for environmental justice in China
Tom Levitt
11th May, 2012
Tom Levitt speaks to one of China's most respected investigative journalists Liu Jianqiang on the rise of environmental activism in China 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...
Coal power: miners pay in blood for China's economic miracle
Richard Schiffman
17th January, 2012
A new film, To the Light, exposes the cost in human health and lives of China's coal-fired power boom more...
Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming
Mark Newton
20th October
Their grasp of science can’t be faulted but William Antholis and Strobe Talbott need to offer solutions too, says Mark Newton more...
China exports its environmental problems as consumer culture booms
Gervase Poulden
6th September, 2011
China is attempting to pursue the same impossible path as the rest of the world: generating consumer demand and wealth without destroying its natural resources and the planet more...
Illegal ivory openly on sale in Chinese cities
Rosie Spinks
17th August, 2011
Activists question allowing China to participate in ivory trade, with estimates that as much as 90 per cent of retail items in the country are illegal more...
Can we cut cancer and heart disease rates just by going vegan?
Matilda Lee
17th May, 2011
We've heard about the environmental and animal welfare problems with meat consumption. Now a new film, Planeat, presents a convincing health case to re-examine our love affair with meat and dairy, reports Matilda Lee more...
Apple: the hidden costs of your iPad and iPhone
Eifion Rees
4th April, 2011
It may have billion-pound profits and gushing praise for technological innovation but Apple is increasingly in the spotlight over its labour rights and environmental record. Eifion Rees reports on the 'sweatshop brand' more...
How do you feed eight billion people in a water-scarce world?
Lester Brown
15th February, 2011
In an exclusive extract from his new book, World on the Edge, Lester Brown outlines fresh ways of thinking about water and land use in order to sustain the world's growing population more...
Warriors of Qiugang: how one Chinese 'cancer village' rose up
The Ecologist
January 31st,2011
Watch the trailer for the Oscar-nominated film documenting how Chinese villagers challenged a powerful chemical company over pesticides and dye-factory pollution more...
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China counts £130bn cost of economic growth in ecological damage
Jonathan Watts, Guardian Asia environment correspondent
29th December, 2010
Cost of pollution, deteriorating soil and other impacts surged to 1.3tr yuan in 2008 - equivalent to 3.9 per cent of country's GDP - as officials warn of threats to ecology, food safety and flood control more...
Low-cost e-waste recycling in China releasing catalogue of pollutants
Ecologist
3rd September, 2010
The world's growing waste mountain of mobile phones, computers and other electronic goods is being illegally recycled in unregulated and primitive conditions in China and causing significant toxic pollution more...
Resettlement fears over China's South-North water transfer project
Ecologist
31st August, 2010
Biggest engineering project in Chinese history could repeat failures of Three Gorges Dam, with significant pressure on ecosystems and fisheries from the resettlement of 300,000 people more...
EU exporting 'one-third' of CO2 emissions to poorer countries
Ecologist
9th March, 2010
Study shows industrialised countries are 'outsourcing' carbon emissions to countries like China, one quarter of whose CO2 emissions are from exports more...
China using 'mind blowing' amount of fertiliser
Ecologist
14th February, 2009
Overuse of nitrogen fertilisers in China is leading to rapid soil acidification and is causing lasting damage to ecosystems, according to soil study more...
VIDEO: The US must commit at least $3.5bn in climate aid
Ecologist
13th December, 2009
The EU's chief negotiator at Copenhagen, Artur Runge-Metzger, tells journalists that he expects the US to contribute at least $3.5 billion to the climate aid budget more... Todd Stern: No US climate targets without China
Ecologist
13th December, 2009
US climate negotiator Todd Stern makes it quite clear to the COP15 delegates: no China, no deal... more...
Using the law to protect the environment
Andrew Wasley
19th June, 2009
Investigation into the dangers faced by lawyers who champion human rights and environmental justice. more... The struggle to report on Tibet's environment
Andrew Wasley
1st May, 2009
Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at the environmental situation in Tibet. more... Three Gorges Dam 'a model for disaster'
Ecologist
30th October, 2009
International Rivers has highlighted the environmental damage caused by the world's biggest hydropower project amid concern about plans for two new dams in China more...
The Chinese know sustainable travel
Ewan Kingston
20th October, 2009
China may have plenty of coal-fired gigawatts, but the country knows a thing or two about sustainable and efficient transport, Ewan finds more...
China's 'carbon intensity' commitment means nothing
Molly Scott Cato
15th October, 2009
There's been plenty of excitement over China and India's pledges to reduce the 'carbon intensity' of their economies. But without absolute limits, this is just business as usual more...
China's green policies knock ours into a cocked hat
Dan Box
16th September, 2009
The West has an image of China as a coal-burning monstrosity standing in the way of a clean future. But the truth is very different more...Members
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