Lobster fishing remains big business off the coast of Maine but even with new regulations and new gadgets can it ever be sustainable? Michael Sanders investigates the real costs of the crustacean on your plate
Fishing the Gulf of Maine: Tradition at a Crossroads Michael Sanders | 20th May 2013 News Food And Farming Natural World shutterstock_3458519.jpg The Maine coastline may be picturesque - but look …
As London Fashion Week concludes, Dr Charudutt Mishra explains how demand for cashmere is affecting Central Asian wildlife, and how enlisting the support of local people will be essential for the future of snow leopard conservation.......
Snow leopard survival threatened by our love of Cashmere Dr Charudutt Mishra | 18th September 2013 Activism Natural World Fashion Conservation snowleopard_edited-1.jpg The endangered snow leopard …
An absence of positive political debate about the natural world is even more troubling than the decline in UK wildlife revealed by State of Nature report
… Ignorance & Ineptitude Sooner or later economics and ecology will need to be …
As fracking hits the headlines UK protests against the practice of blasting natural gas from shale rock are on the increase. Jan Goodey reports on the latest flashpoint in the urgent - and escalating - anti fracking battle
The UK's anti fracking movement is growing Jan Goodey | 1st August 2013 News Climate Change Energy Society protest.jpg As fracking hits the headlines UK protests against the practice of blasting …
The Government is reneging on its pledge to be the "greenest ever," but there's still time to turn it around. Gavin Haines explains how the Coalition could make good its promise.
The Greenest Government Ever? Gavin Haines | 22nd January 2013 News clegg-cameron-coalition-small-300x225.jpg Nick Clegg and David Cameron (source: Flickr Creative Commons) The Government is …
Not only is fracking a massive threat to the UK's water, argues John Ward - it's a dead-end technology that will make us pay a heavy price for going precisely nowhere in energy terms.
Fracking - it's the water, stupid! John Ward | 13th November 2013 Comment Fracking Fossil Fuels fracking-water.png Not only is fracking a massive threat to the UK's water, argues John Ward - it's a …
Government claims the cull is to protect fish stocks, but campaigners say seals are clubbed to death for their fat and fur. John Vidal reports.......
Seal Clubbing in Namibia: Shocking footage just released John Vidal | 4th July 2013 News Natural World Politics seal.jpg Seal pups, just a few months old, are killed with spiked wooden clubs. …
New rules come into force today that require big UK companies to make their carbon emissions public but - explains Miriam Ross - this won't put an end to the environmental degradation and breach of human rights caused by the UK-financed coal mining boom in Kalimantan, Borneo.......
UK-financed coal mining is devastating Indonesian Borneo Miriam Ross | 1st October 2013 Activism Mining Money east kutai mining.jpg Mining in East Kutai, Kalimantan. Image courtesy of World …
Across the Marcellus Shale, most abandoned oil and gas wells are supposedly harmless. But some are leaking - polluting land, water and air - and now there are concerns about other risks, reports Dimiter Kenarov
… 2013 News Energy Fracking News.politics And Economics gas1.jpg Across the Marcellus Shale, …
Despite all the hype that fracking the UK will mean cheaper energy bills, it is increasingly clear that the opposite is the case, writes Lesley Docksey. And who will pay the cost? Taxpayers, energy users, and the environment ...
… December 2013 Comment Fossil Fuels Fracking Economics Energy UK odessa-texas.png Despite …
Despite hard economic times, a recent survey shows that two thirds of UK homebuyers would consider paying more for a house with a wildlife-friendly garden ...
Homebuyers willing to pay more for proximity to wildlife Andrea Gear | 25th November 2013 Ethical Living Property Wildlife Gardening shutterstock_104348210.jpg Give a hedgehog a present this …
It’s hard to see what unconventional gas - including fracking and coal bed methane extraction - has to offer the UK with our vast renewable energy potential, says Mary Church
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Oliver Tickell has been appointed as Editor of The Ecologist
New Editor for the Ecologist 22nd October 2013 Comment Oliver Tickell The Ecologist Editor oliver tickell-web.jpg Oliver Tickell has been appointed as Editor of The Ecologist The Resurgence Trust …
Sir Richard Branson tells the Ecologist what kind of world he would like to see his grandchildren grow up in and argues that organisations both public and private have a responsibility to ensure the next generation inherit just such a world........
Sir Richard Branson: Championing the Green Economy Richard Branson | 10th July 2013 Comment Society 15.jpg Sir Richard Branson. Sir Richard Branson tells the Ecologist what kind of world he would …
Major funders of the pro-fossil fuel Global Warming Policy Foundation are always keen to speak out against public support for renewable energy, writes Brendan Montague. So how come they're so keen to help themselves to a fortune in farm subsidies?
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In the midst of the US domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. Elizabeth Royte reports
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Michael Fallon's comments in private meeting herald shale gas exploration from Hampshire to Kent that risks putting Tories on collision course with heartland support
… 2013 News Climate Change Energy Politics & Economics flare.jpg Gas Flares? Not in my back …
Matt Adam Williams explains why yesterday's European Parliament vote will likely have environmentally negative impacts on the other side of the world.....
… | 12th September 2013 News Biofuels Politics Economics orangutan.jpg What will the European …
“Wellbeing is a very big and beautiful concept; its personal wellbeing, its social wellbeing, its community wellbeing, and it is also wellbeing of our planet earth. So, wellbeing is a big and holistic vision”
… people’s wellbeing”, developed by the New Economics Foundation (nef) . They present an …
Lucy Dunne reports on the fight to save a water meadow from bulldozers, and opines that this may just be the beginning of a wave of protests triggered by Osborne's infrastructure plans.
The battle for Combe Haven Lucy Dunne | 4th February 2013 News granny.jpg A Bailiff tussles with a local OAP. Sarah Evans can be seen smiling cheekily in the background. Lucy Dunne reports on the …
In the second of a series of four blogs Clare Kendall discovers that fuel consumption by boat-dwellers is comparatively low and that energy is often more accessible than it is for those of us who live in buildings.......
It's not easy being green - unless that is, you live on a boat. Part II. Clare Kendall | 21st August 2013 Comment Energy Consumption Green Living Boats narrowboat.jpg Boat dwellers often take full …