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Which chemicals are making us fat?
Ecologist
12th January, 2012
In her book 'The 21st Century is Making you Fat' former Ecologist Editor Pat Thomas details the full range of industrial and everyday chemicals known to encourage us to get fat more...
Revealed: the child victims of pesticide poisoning in India
Peter Caton and Beatriz Lopez
4th January, 2012
Endosulfan is the pesticide of choice for farmers in rural India trying to control insects threatening cashew nut and other crops - but the chemical can have devastating health impacts more...
Can the common agricultural policy save England's green and pleasant land?
Matilda Lee
11th October, 2011
As reform of the EU's agriculture policy gets underway, Miles King of the Grassland Trust tells Matilda Lee how intensive farming has all but destroyed England's 'rainforests' and why it's time we started asking for more from our farmers more...
Toxic fallout as activists challenge strawberry industry's pesticide use
Rosie Spinks
10th October, 2011
Faced with the potential use of a dangerous pesticide methyl iodide to spray crops in their backyards, a group of Californian teenagers decided to stand up to the might of industrial agribusiness. Rosie Spinks reports more...
Sour Milk – undercover inside the US intensive dairy industry
Jim Wickens
21st September 2010
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business... more...
Safia Minney: fashion’s impact on the earth
Safia Minney
15th September, 2011
In an exclusive extract from her new book - Naked Fashion - the People Tree founder looks at the environmental damage caused by modern fashion – and sketches out a radical new way forwardmore...
Neal's Yard Remedies: organic skincare to feed the soul
Laura Sevier
14th September, 2011
Neal's Yard Remedies is a cut above other skincare companies in its commitment to natural ingredients. Laura Sevier speaks to owner Peter Kindersley about the brand's deep ecology more...
The Development of the Organic Network: Linking People and Themes,1945-95
Mark Newton
8th September, 2011
Phillip Conford's treatise on the rise of the organic movement is anything but dull, says Mark Newton more...
Consumers and farm workers at risk from toxic pesticides sprayed on salad
Nick Mole
1st September, 2011
More than a 100 pesticides are licenced for spraying on the humble lettuce. As well as posing a threat to consumers, workers harvesting the crop can face contamination and poisoning more...
Chemical warfare: the horrific birth defects linked to tomato pesticides
Barry Estabrook
1st September, 2011
The 'Immokalee babies' were born with severe deformities after their mothers were each exposed to pesticides whilst harvesting tomatoes. Barry Estabrook reports on the case that shocked the US more...
Public sector should develop GM crops for seed companies, says leading researcher
Tom Levitt
1st August, 2011
As controversial UK trials of a potato genetically-modified to be resistant to late blight get underway, we speak to research leader and plant geneticist Professor Jonathan Jones about why he is in favour of an expansion in GM crops more...
Time for gardeners to stop living the ‘Good Lie’
Bob Sherman
22nd July, 2011
Amateur gardeners striving to live the 'Good Life' should ensure they check the contents of store-bought compost. For peat's sake - we need to think beyond our backyards and choose compost carefully more...
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Return to the killing fields: the unspoken cost of Europe's cheap meat
Nick Rau
14th July, 2011
Two years on from our first investigation of the impact of intensive soya farming, Friends of the Earth campaigner Nick Rau explains how progress in tackling the problems are still frustratingly slow more...
Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
Mark Newton
7th July, 2011
Combining hard science with a sympathetic approach to the realities of family life; Raising Elijah is one of the most important books you’ll ever read, says Mark Newton more...
TAKE ACTION to protect Britain's bees
Matilda Lee
5th July, 2011
Sign the petition to ban neonicotinoids in the UK and help safeguard Britain's threatened bee population more...
Greenpeace takes on Monsanto over 'pesticides arms race'
Tom Levitt
30th June, 2011
Main ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup weed killer is being linked to cancer, birth defects and Parkinson's disease and should be banned, according to campaigners behind new report more...
Chemical companies 'misleading' gardeners over toxic pesticides
Sarah Bentley
29th June, 2011
Despite a surge of interest in organic gardening, green fingered consumers continue to favour toxic chemicals to combat pests. But are they being exploited by clever marketing and inaccurate labelling? Sarah Bentley investigates more...
The inside story on Monsanto and the glyphosate birth defect data
Claire Robinson
13th June 2011
The pesticide industry and regulators have repeatedly misled the public with claims that glyphosate is safe, says Claire Robinson. As a result, Monsanto's Roundup is used by gardeners and local authorities, in school grounds, and in farmers’ fields more...
Africa's Green Revolution 2.0: rejecting agribusiness, pesticides and GM greenwash
Chris Milton
26th May, 2011
A pioneering campaign is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the people and empowering women to lead a new movement that rejects the 'pesticide and loan culture' of the first Green Revolution. Chris Milton reportsmore...
Organic farming – India's future perfect?
Nishika Patel, The Guardian
12th May, 2011
A budding interest in organic food offers farmers soaring incomes and higher yields, but critics say it's not the answer to India's fast-rising food demands more...
TAKE ACTION: Make a loaf of bread for the Real Bread Campaign
Matilda Lee
11th May, 2011
Dust off your old bread maker and get your hands dirty during Real Bread Maker Week from May 9 - 16more...
Environmental damage and human rights abuses blight global tea sector
William McLennan
13th April, 2011
Human rights violations have been reported at plantations in virtually all major tea producing countries, while tea growing itself has a profound effect on the local environment. William McLennan reports more...
Pesticide lobby resists moves to sanction 'deadly' paraquat substance
Keith Tyrell
April 7th, 2011
Experts want the weedkiller paraquat - poison of choice in many suicide attempts - to be added to a 'watch list' of dangerous substances. Why then is Syngenta fighting the proposals asks Keith Tyrell? more...
Medical profession 'oblivious' to role of chemicals in diabetes and obesity
William McLennan
22nd March,2011
US officials are beginning to take a greater interest in the reported links between the exposure to environmental chemicals, like Bisphenol A, with the development of diabetes and obesity more...
The film that stood up to banana giant Dole over pesticide poisoning (and won)
Tom Levitt
14th March, 2011
The documentary Bananas! highlighted plight of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who brought a legal case in the US against the use of a banned pesticide DBCP by the Dole Food Company. Tom Levitt reports more...Members
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