Persecuted Roma communities in France are being forced to scavenge for dangerous e-waste, potentially threatening health and questioning the country's recycling policies
… policies NEWS Low-cost e-waste recycling in China releasing catalogue of pollutants The … in unregulated and primitive conditions in China and causing significant toxic pollution …
Brazil becomes second biggest biotech grower after the US as industry predicts big increases in GM soybean, maize and cotton production in 2010
… the US, Brazil, Argentina, India, Canada and China accounting for 95 per cent of all GM … India 8.4 million ha. Canada 8.2 million ha. China 3.7 million ha. Paraguay 2.2 million ha. …
A new wave of hydropower projects is under way in the quest for clean renewable energy but tribal and indigenous peoples continue to be ignored by those pushing through the plans
… increasing by 50 per cent since 1997. China has also emerged as the biggest funder, … amid concern about plans for two new dams in China …
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
… cuts, say policy experts Study says neither China, India or US likely to accept legally … carbon emissions to countries like China, one quarter of whose CO2 emissions are …
Current climate policy of emissions targets and trading will not suceed and should be replaced by a 'politically attractive' one based on providing cheap, non-carbon energy, says new paper
… the paper, pointing out that both India and China had made clear they would not accept … cuts, say policy experts Study says neither China, India or US likely to accept legally …
British companies accused of profiting from emissions trading scheme while consumers foot the bill
… but is likely to be opposed by India and China. READ MORE... COMMENT Climate deniers … carbon emissions to countries like China, one quarter of whose CO2 emissions are …
With Papua New Guinea giving the go-ahead to a Canadian mining company to dredge its coastal seabed for minerals, new species of life could be extinct before they have even been discovered. Tom Levitt reports
… waters. But with rising demand from China and India for rare earth metals like … assessments have been made of the impact. China is known to be seeking to mine similar …
For regions with adequate space and little recycling infrastructure, disposing of bottles in landfill generates a lower carbon footprint than recycling or incineration...
… practice of shipping baled PET bottles to China for recycling is an ecological nonsense, … the practice of shipping PET bottles to China for recycling is an ecological nonsense. …
It's one of the healthiest, most versatile 'weeds' around. Asian countries have enjoyed the benefits for centuries. So where is the market for homegrown UK seaweed?
… consumers. As it is, what in the Orient - China, Japan and South Korea in particular - … nothing like as badly as the waters off China, where the lion's share of global …
'Slow-steaming' could reduce shipping emissions by 30 per cent, says a report submitted to the UN, but toxic lubricants remain a serious problem
… cuts, say policy experts Study says neither China, India or US likely to accept legally … carbon emissions to countries like China, one quarter of whose CO2 emissions are …
The launch of the massive economic ecosystem assessment, TEEB, will help force the natural world onto the corporate balance sheet. It's a step forward. But how will protesters react to the ground shifting under their feet?
… had shares in the oil industry After BP, China plans deep-sea mining Russian expert …
Workers are dying in Bangladesh’s shipyards because the west's shipping industry - including UK companies - is not taking responsibility for the disposal of ageing vessels
… shipyard through a cash intermediary in China, the company is likely to have made over … yards in India NEWS UN warns India and China over growing problem of e-waste African …
Eifion Rees talks to the Compassion in World Farming veteran and co-editor of The Meat Crisis - a shocking new book that exposes the range of environmental and health threats facing us if we don't kick our addiction to meat
… Americans 125kg a year. Countries like China and India, which are rapidly developing …
Immediate moratorium on all activity by oil and gas industries would help safeguard the local community and ecosystem as well as reduce potential carbon emissions
… carbon emissions Plans by the EU, US and China to exploit oil and gas reserves in the …
Only massive and regular sulphur injections into the atmosphere would prevent sea-level rises of 30-70cm on 2000 levels by the end of the century as a result of climate change
… Now a new analysis by researchers from China, Denmark and the UK looked at historical …
Come 31st of January - the day when international emissions cuts were supposed to be announced - carbon markets should have rocketed. They didn't, and that's a bad sign
… cent cut (but on a 2005 baseline). India and China have offered cuts in 'carbon intensity' …
Armed with a hand blender, a bucket, some wild plants and various kitchen cupboard ingredients you can give old clothes a new lease of life
… back to around 4,500 years ago in ancient China. Natural dyes were used exclusively … coccus ), Brazilwood ( Caesalpinaia echinata ) and alkanet ( Alkannna tinctoria ). …
The Government's much-vaunted ambition for a low-carbon economy could be threatened by shortages in key metals and the environmental cost of developing new mining facilities
… However, the world may now face shortages as China, which produces 95 per cent of the …
Following our exclusive investigation, Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade
… the industry moved to first Japan, Taiwan and China. There as well safety and environmental …
The native black poplar tree is now rarer than the giant panda with only 2,500 specimens remaining in Britain. The Crown Estate's conservation program aims to reinstate them
… rare a sight in Britain as the Giant Panda in China? Poplar problems First, endangered …