This month a construction consortium will start pouring millions of tons of rock and cement into the Venice Lagoon – one of the Mediterranean’s most important wetlands. The consortium claims the dam project will ‘save’ the city from flooding. But the project failed its environmental impact assessment, threatens the ecology of the lagoon and – with global warming and rising sea-levels –may not even protect Venice anyway. Tony Zamparutti reports from Italy.
… to transport raw materials – including crude oil for a neighbouring petrochemical complex. … lagoon’s rich salt marshes. In particular, an oil tanker channel dug in the late 1960s cuts …
Who said these words: ‘The environmental movement is a growing force in civil society, searching for a home in mainstream politics. The party that succeeds will be the natural party of government’? It wasn’t George Monbiot, Tony Juniper or Jonathon Porritt. It was David Miliband, in December 2006.
… plastic bag-free, preparing for the end of oil (see www.transitiontowns.org ) and by …
Shrimp has always been associated with the small and the puny. Why then is this seemingly harmless crustacean inspiring angry protests throughout the developing world, and why have so many people died as a result? Dr Mike Shanahan investigates
… tract infections are linked to inadequate toilet facilities. Handling ice-cold food for … undergoes radical change. Just as logging and oil exploration have become the focus of …