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 <title><![CDATA[Curbing supermarkets' power: will the Groceries Code Adjudicator have the teeth to bite?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:54 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Tackling the unfair buying practices of the big supermarkets is a vital step forward for securing the rights of over a million workers. From fruit to textiles to cut flowers, abuses in the supply chain are rife. Now we must guard against lobbying from the retail giants, says Murray Worthy ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Should Coca Cola be allowed to sponsor the London Olympics?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:55 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Following the row over Dow, BP, and Rio Tinto sponsoring the forthcoming games, another Olympic partner, Coca Cola - linked to a controversial orange harvest in Italy - should now face scrutiny says Andrew Wasley    ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[‘We are ready to die for our land’, say pastoralists in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:30 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A hydroelectric dam Gibe III in south-west Ethiopia threatens the livelihood of the ancient tribes of the Lower Omo River, say the campaign group Survival]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Grave threat of pesticides to bees' billion-pound bonanza is now clear]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:16 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Replacing the pollination of food crops that the UK's bees perform for free would cost £1.8bn. With hard data now linking pesticides to bees' rapid decline, there is no excuse for inaction, says Damian Carrington]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Midwifery on screen: how 'One Born Every Minute' gets it wrong]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:15 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Forget alarmist TV birthing dramas- get the real low-down on midwifery from Sarah Montagu]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Anatomy of a C-section: they save lives, but would you choose one? ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:12 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Andrew Wasley watched his partner endure two invasive births, one elective, the other life saving]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[How birth was hijacked]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:10 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[For International Women's Day, the Ecologist reports on the maternity care crisis and looks at ways to overcome the culture of fear facing mothers-to-be ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Response: biomass 'needs to be part of our low-carbon future']]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:15 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The biomass industry responds to an Ecologist article by Biofuelswatch to counter what it says are the 'myths' around biomass, arguing that it is sustainable, proven and low carbon ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The earthquake and nuclear meltdown in Japan last year compounded pre-existing issues like falling birth rates, fragmented families and shrinking communities. What does the future hold? ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Campaigners say no to nuclear new build at Hinkley Point]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:41 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Campaign group South-West Against Nuclear want to stop the government's plans for a 'nuclear renaissance' beginning in Hinkley Point in Somerset. Nuclear, activists say, is plagued by problems from beginning to end]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:59 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Politicians, 'dynamic' business and the media (even if it denies it) all want high speed rail. But they are missing the point , says B W Edginton. After all, who wants to visit  London, Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds? ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The great badger and bovine TB cover-up: is it really a health risk?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:35 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[With controversial plans to allow farmers to cull badgers later this year, Ed Hamer asks whether Bovine TB is really a health problem for either cows or humans]]></description>
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