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Pepper: how our favourite spice is tainted by a deadly legacy
Frederik Johannisson and Peter Bengtsen
25th January, 2011
From India to Indonesia pepper farmers are increasingly vulnerable to harvest failures, food price crashes and price fixing, an investigation by Frederik Johannisson & Peter Bengtsen of Danwatch has revealed more...
Let Live: A Bike Ride, Climate Change and the CIA
Daniel Copley
5th January, 2012
What could have been a rip-roaring yarn with an important message is spoiled by unlikely dialogue and overly simple characters, says Daniel Copley more...
Global Witness quits Kimberley Process as Zimbabwe 'blood diamonds' exported
Rosie Spinks
6th December, 2011
Consumers could unwittingly buy rings or other jewellery linked to serious human rights abuses after Kimberley Process fails to prevent the sale of diamonds from Robert Mugabe's Marange diamond fields more...
Durban climate change conference: is it time to forget about 2 degrees of warming?
Tom Levitt
8th November, 2011
Ahead of the latest UN climate conference, is it time we let go of the holy grail of carbon emission reduction targets and looked at alternatives such as 'carbon clubs'? more...
An Iceberg as Big as Manhattan
Gervase Poulden
29th September
David Shukman’s book is both an entertaining collection of a journalist’s tales and the perfect introduction to the environmental challenges facing the world today, says Gervase Poulden more...
Endgame for polar bears as Arctic habitat melts away
Gavin Haines
24th August, 2011
The recent polar bear attack in Norway is the latest reminder that time is running out for these iconic mammals, with runaway climate change and habitat loss. Gavin Haines reports more...
‘Extreme Science’ with Philippe Cousteau
Ecologist and explorer Philippe Cousteau will be taking viewers to the Arctic to study global warming in CNN documentary ‘Extreme Science’ more...
Crawford Hollingworth: only corporations can solve global issues
Matilda Lee
28th April, 2011
Crawford Hollingworth's new book - Global Over Development - parodies the typical annual report with an provocative look at the dark side of progress more...
Study of spiders shows species may be able to adapt to global warming
William McLennan
10th March, 2011
Species may be able to adapt to gradual increases in temperature preventing the collapse of biological communities in the face of global climate change more...
Q&A: Helena Norberg-Hodge
Jemima Roberts
2nd March, 2011
Filmmaker, campaigner and environmental pioneer Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to Jemima Roberts about her latest film - The Economics of Happiness - the damage globalisation is doing, and what can be done to counter itmore...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Trewin Restorick, CEO of Global Action Plan
Matilda Lee
22nd February, 2011
The founder of the carbon reduction charity Global Action Plan on past failures, launching the UK's first on-line carbon calculator and why we must work with the corporate sector to create change more...
Arctic
Ruth Styles
3rd February, 2011
Part travelogue, part lament for a threatened way of life, Ruth Styles says that Bruce Parry’s latest book, Arctic, shows us exactly what we stand to lose if global warming isn’t stopped - todaymore...
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The Economics of Happiness
Ecologist
12th January,2011
A sneak preview of Helena Norberg-Hodge's epic documentary which examines how 'going local' is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured world - ecosystems, societies and individuals more...
Campaign Hero: Caroline Fiennes of Global Cool
Matilda Lee
11th January, 2011
Global Cool is the green lifestyle organisation that uses celebrities and mainstream culture to market low-carbon living. Its director Caroline Fiennes talks to the Ecologist more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Richard Miller of ActionAid UK
Matilda Lee
14th December, 2010
The Director of ActionAid UK talks to us about ending global poverty, achieving trade justice and making supermarkets accountable more...
Anger at opening of Shell-sponsored climate change exhibition
Tom Levitt
6th December, 2010
Campaigners accuse oil giant of trying to 'buy itself goodwill' within government and academia by donating £1 million to a new exhibition at The Science Museum in London more...
'Uneven' sea level rises threaten Indian Ocean coastal regions
Ecologist
14th July, 2010
Global warming is adversely affecting certain countries around the Indian Ocean with higher than average sea level rises, according to analysis published in Nature Geoscience more...
Australia getting warmer springs and uneven rainfall
Ecologist
14th March, 2010
Australian meteorologists have published an up-to-date summary of how rainfall and temperature levels have changed across the country over the past 100 years more...
Global Warring by Cleo Paskal
Samuel Bonham
16th February, 2010
An ambitious but at times over-simplistic look at how environmental, political and economic crises will redraw the world map more...
The West helped create the Somali pirate situation
Simon Fairlie
28th December, 2009
What few have stopped to consider in the continuing 'battle' against Somali pirates is what industrialised nations have been doing to the country's fishing grounds for years more...
Protecting forests AND the rights of forest peoples
Laura Sevier
8th December, 2009
The plans currently under consideration for saving forests might help the trees, but they could ride roughshod over indigenous communities. Here are some ways to change that more...
Copenhagen deal taking world to 3.5 degree rise
Ecologist
7th December, 2009
Industrialised countries need to decrease their emissions to between 25-40 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020, according to IPCCmore...
Schools using art to learn about climate change
Rebecca Heald
27th July, 2009
Can climate art help save the world? Rebecca Heald reports on a school art installation and its ambitious 'Cool it Schools' global online initiative more...
10 groups pushing for cultural change
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Inspiration for change comes in many guises – from downshifting your personal life to celebrating a community Apple Day to joining a movement for social justice. more...
Climate Change - Our Warming World
Amy Dickson
10th November, 2009
Christina Hutchins' book delivers the facts in a simple, effective and stark way rather than bombarding you with scientific data more...Members
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