Overfishing along West Africa’s coast is endangering fish stocks and livelihoods, but local fishermen are not to blame.
… | 1st February 2007 News Illegal Fishing Africa Fish Stocks Sustainability Fishing … Overfishing along West Africa’s coast is endangering fish stocks and … and then sell it in local markets. Along West Africa’s coast – covering the countries of …
We didn’t want GM on your table, but the crucial question now is, will we allow it in our tanks? Robin Maynard and Pat Thomas report
… for biodiesel use. Last year, Tony Blair’s Africa Commission declared that mass growing of biofuels in Africa, ‘provides a sustainable development path for the many African countries that can produce biofuels …
Sir David King is credited with bringing climate change to serious political attention. But he is also a campaign of GM crops. How does that square?
… per cent cut is required to avoid genocide in Africa smacks of political pragmatism, too, … of charge. If we are going to work in the African continent, as we are – because we are … spending roughly £1.2 billion per year in the African continent; that’s a massive increase – …
Fair trade has brought rewards to farmers in Africa and Asia. Is there a role it could play in poorer European countries as well? Silver Kasoro and Harriet Lamb answer...
… Fair trade has brought rewards to farmers in Africa and Asia. Is there a role it could play …
Eco-labelled wine corks have just hit the market in a move to protect cork forests, which are threatened by a switch to metal screw top and plastic stoppers
… forests in Italy, Spain, Portugal and North Africa are home to Barbary and Sardinian deer, …
Another of the reasons included in the Channel 4 documentary, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, to explain the current interest in climate change was that disaffected radicals and political activists had latched on to the concept of a warming climate to foreground their anti-capitalists and anti-progress views. Paul Kingsnorth dissects these claims…
… so. The consequences are that dying babies in Africa are denied the fruits of human …
While governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. Mara Hvistendahl reports from the United Nations.
… droughts and desertification in sub-Saharan Africa. An increase in tropical storms, …
Botswanan police are refusing to allow Kalahari Bushmen to return to their ancestral homelands, despite their having won a landmark high court case allowing them to do so, writes Clive Dennis
… a successful modern democracy in the heart of Africa. The battle dates back to 1991 when a …
One of the major causes of rainforest destruction and biodiversity loss in tropical zones is the illegal logging of hardwoods. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label, broadly speaking, exists to address this by promoting environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world’s forests.
… Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Ireland, South Africa, Spain and Uruguay. The organisations …
An open letter signed by over 230 organisations and individuals – including author/campaigner Mark Lynas and Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas – has been sent to the European Union calling for ministers to vote against planned biofuel targets at the EU Summit on Friday.
… farmland across Latin America, Asia and Africa into biofuel monocultures. The …
Every year, each square metre of the UK receives between 900 and 1200 kWh of solar radiation. Capturing just some of this energy could make a significant contribution to fulfilling our energy requirements.
… electricity to be transmitted from North Africa to London with only a 10 per cent …
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has delivered the final blow to climate-change sceptics. The word its report uses is 'unequivocal'. But is the world prepared to accept the results of this judgement?
… leading to severe water shortages in southern Africa and the Mediterranean. There is good …
March 22nd in World Water Day, an UN initiative to draw attention to the dreadful conditions in which many millions of the world's citizens draw their water. Maggie King reports
… in 2006, including some in Turkey and South Africa. Jay Z's documentary “Water for Life” …
Plant fuels can never meet our current and growing energy needs and, as Robin Maynard reports, adopting a ‘carbohydrate economy’ may prove disastrous for our farmers, our food supply and our future
… is sustained while other countries, such as Africa, are encouraged to grow our fuel. …