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Earth Shattering: Ecopoems edited by Neil Astley
David Hawkinns
1st June, 2008
Context is all in a comprehensive new anthology of verse with an environmental bent. These poems make sense of a disappearing world... more...
Behind the Label: Roundup Weedkiller
Pat Thomas
1st April, 2008
A weedkiller that kills a lot more than simply weeds? If it’s worse than the poison it’s no cure at all, says Pat thomasmore...
WWF-UK wins funding halt to Sakhalin II oil and gas pipeline
News
6th March, 2008
Lobbying by WWF UK to protect Arctic wilderness from a £11bn ($22bn) oil and gas project that threatened the Western Gray Whale with extinction has been successful after the UK and US governments withdrew backing. more...
Bad news, bears
Nick Kettles
1st March, 2008
From Catalonia in the South, through the Ariège and Béarn, to the Basque country in the North, both locals and tourists are used to seeing Nationalist slogans daubed in white paint on Pyrenean mountain roads. But now a new clarion call is vying for their attention: Non Ours (no bears) and Mort aux Ours (death to the bears.) more...
Campaign to save British Bees launched
News
12th February, 2008
The British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) will this week call for for a five-year £8m research programme to save the insect from colony collapse disorder (CCD). more...
Flamingos threatened by soda-ash mining
News
12th July, 2007
A huge soda-ash mining plant to be built on the banks of Lake Natron in Tanzania will push the lesser flamingo to the brink of extinction, the Guardian has reported. more...
Old-growth forests must be protected, say scientists
News
7th June, 2007
Forty-two biologists and botanists have sent a signed petition to the governments of British Columbia and Canada calling for full protection of the country's old-growth forest. more...
Dead as a dolphin?
Malcolm Tait
1st April, 2007
Another animal’s gone extinct. But this time it’s one of our most beloved creatures – a dolphin. Malcolm Tait reports on a species loss that is more than just another statistic more...
On the EDGE
Mark Anslow
16th January, 2007
A new programme from the Zoological Society of London promises to protect endangered and little-known species more...
EDGing forward
Mark Anslow
10th January, 2007
The Zoological Society of London has today launched a new programme to draw attention to the bizarre, unusual and endangered. more...
Humanity's worst invention: Agriculture
Clive Dennis
22nd September, 2006
By radically changing the way we acquire our food, the development of agriculture has condemned us to live worse than ever before. Not only that, agriculture has led to the first significant instances of large-scale war, inequality, poverty, crime, famine and human induced climate change and mass extinction.By Clive W. Dennis (winner of the Ecologist/Coady International Institute 2006 Essay Competition) more...
England Vanishing
22nd September, 2006
How do we define ourselves in time and space? A new book England In Particular suggests it is the commonplace, the local and the distinctive that tells us where we are more...
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BACK FROM THE DEAD
Malcolm Tait
1st July, 2005
Vast and enduring, nature defies ourattempts to put it in a box more...
After the Gold Rush
Charles Clover
1st December, 2004
The biggest and most indiscriminate killers of wildlife on the planet, commercial fishing fleets have brought us to the edge of a maritime ecological disaster, with fish stocks facing extinction all around the world.more...
The fate of India's vultures
Malcolm Tait
1st October, 2004
India’s vulture population is facing catastrophic collapse and with it the sacrosanct corporeal passing of the Parsi dead more...
Zoos - 20th century anachronism or biodiversity preservation tool?
Daniel Turner, Dr Miranda F Stevenson B.A., MBA.,
1st March, 2004
Are zoos an essential tool for preserving biodiversity in the 21st century or a Noah's-Ark-style anachronism riddled with woodworm and sinking fast? more...
Mediterranean Massacre
Richard Ellis
1st October, 2003
Seeing bluefin tuna gaffed is like watching a thoroughbred racehorse being hacked to death with an axe. more...
The magnificent bluefin tuna
Richard Ellis
1st October, 2003
Richard Ellis celebrates the beauty of one of nature’s most miraculous, and least appreciated creatures – the bluefin tuna. more...
The Water Hyacinth
Tom Hargreaves
1st October, 2003
This beautiful but deadly plant proliferates in lakes across Africa – choking everything in its path. Why, asks Tom Hargreaves, have all attempts to manage it failed? more...
Seahorses
Davina Langdale
2nd June, 2003
Bizarrely formed and practising one of nature’s most mysterious parenting methods, the seahorse is the victim of an international trade that kills 20 million of them every year. By Davina Langdale more...
Whale songs drowned out by navy sonars
The Ecologist
1st February, 2003
Navy vs the Whales. They have the most mysterious and beautiful songs in the natural world. But now they are dying, drowned out by the deafening roar of Western navies’ new sonar devices.more...
Genetics and conservation
Malcolm Tait
22nd December, 2000
The promise that cloning will be a boon to conservation is, says Malcolm Tait, a complete cop-out more...
Running with gorillas
Beatrice Newbery and Ian Player
9th June, 2000
If trends continue the world’s great apes are doomed to extinction. But one unique rehabilitation project in West Africa is challenging this bleak picture. Beatrice Newbery reportsmore...
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