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How green are vegetable and rapeseed oils?
Rebecca Campbell
16th May, 2012
When it comes to oils we are spoilt for choice, with more than 130 million tonnes of oil consumed every year, according to the WWF. But with demand set to increase, what sort of impact is our appetite for oil having on the planet? And which is the green choice? more...
The dark side of soya: how one super crop lost its way
Amy Hall
1st May, 2012
A decade ago, soya was being hailed as a superfood but in recent years, numerous issues surrounding deforestation and its impact on health have come to light more...
Urge Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to save the Amazon rainforest
Ben Hudson
14th December 2011
The new Brazilian Forest Code proposes to relax land regulation in the Amazon rainforest which will increase logging, cattle ranching and other destructive activities. Tell President Dilma to veto the decision before it is too late more...
Brazil’s Forest Code: call for farmers to be paid to protect Amazon
George Blacksell
24th September, 2011
Brazilian government urged to start paying farmers to protect Amazon land as it pushes on with plans to scrap historic forest protection laws 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...
Our sugarcane is greener than your corn: Brazil takes on US biofuel industry
Beth McLoughlin
4th October, 2011
Brazil claims to have clamped down on slash and burn tactics, slave labour and links to deforestation as it seeks to gain foothold in Europe’s lucrative biofuels market more...
Belo Monte dam marks a troubling new era in Brazil's attitude to its rainforest
Karen Hoffmann
15th August, 2011
Belo Monte is just one of a dozen giant dam projects Brazil plans to build in the Amazon region in the coming decades and opens up the world's largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration more...
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...
Five of the best...Fairtrade and organic coffees
Valentina Jovanovski
20th June, 2011
From monocultures to deforestation, a cup of coffee can leave a bitter taste. But as Valentina Jovanovski discovered, ethically produced coffee can benefit some of the world’s poorest people and the planet to bootmore...
Brazilian judge blocks plans for construction of Belo Monte dam
Amy Fallon, the guardian
28th February, 2011
Project to build world's third-largest hydroelectric plant is suspended after failing to meet environmental requirements more...
WWF calls for 'scaling up' of beef production to combat deforestation in Brazil
Ecologist
22nd February, 2011
In an interview with the Ecologist, WWF Brazil CEO Denise Hamu says increasing productivity can help combat deforestation in the Amazon more...
RENCTAS: the Brazilian NGO on the frontline of the war on animal trafficking
Giovana Zilli
11th February, 2011
RENCTAS and its fearless leader Raulff Lima are taking on Brazil's lucrative - and dangerous - black market in wildlife, reports Giovana Zilli more...
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Rapid growth in Amazon dams brought home by online map
Ecologist
25th August, 2010
New website details more than 140 planned or operating hydropower projects in the Amazon basin more...
Atlantic Rising: Belo Monte dam the start of the drowning of the Amazon
Tim Bromfield
23rd July, 2010
Campaigners fear the construction of the world's third largest hydroelectric dam in Brazil is just the start with many more being planned in the Amazon basin more...
The human cost of 'super-clean' sugar ethanol
Ella Windsor
2nd March, 2010
Brazil is hailed as a biofuels success story - producing and using ethanol from high yielding crops within the country. But those indigenous families who have been displaced by sugar cane cultivation see things differently more...
Brazilian GM crop surge reported
Ecologist
23rd February, 2010
Brazil becomes second biggest biotech grower after the US as industry predicts big increases in GM soybean, maize and cotton production in 2010 more...
Brazil to build world's third largest dam in Amazon
Ecologist
2nd February, 2010
Environmental groups say the Belo Monte dam project would devastate a large area of the Amazon rainforest and threaten the survival of indigenous peoples more...
Greenwash award exposes Brazilian company
Ecologist
21st January, 2010
Brazilian cattle-ranching company named and shamed for destroying the land of an uncontacted tribe more...
Will sugar be the oil of the 21st century?
Matilda Lee
1st December, 2009
You can turn it into everything from fuel to plastics. But will the surge in demand for sugar end up having a serious environmental impact? more...
Clamping down on logging in Brazil moves it to Paraguay
Ecologist
20th November, 2009
Former Paraguayan government minister makes plea for West to intervene in runaway illegal logging situation displaced from Brazil more...
MPs call for an end to GM crop protests
Ecologist
22nd July, 2009
MP's report leaves environmentalists facing a dilemma, should they allow GM crop trials or not? more...
Copenhagen success rests on cash and commitment
Ecologist
10th July, 2009
New research has revealed that a lack of finance and political commitment lie at the heart of the slow take-up of renewables, as a UK think tank calls for cash for low-carbon technology to be ringfenced more...
Tesco 'trusts' cattle suppliers involved in Amazon deforestation
Ecologist
3rd July, 2009
Despite the lack of traceability in the supply chain, the assurances of cattle producers that they are not involved in the illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is apparently enough for Tesco, a letter to the Guardian reveals more...
Cattle ranching biggest driver of Amazon deforestation
Ecologist
27th May, 2009
Cattle ranchers bigger culprits in Amazon deforestation than soy farmers, new NGO study shows more...
Space Race
George Hackford
30th July, 2008
The Brazilian Space Agency and Britain’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are planning to boldly go into new realms of space-based rainforest protection. more...Members
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