Recent abductions and threats against activists trying to prevent logging in South-East Asia are part of a worrying trend of violence against those exposing environmental issues
… trying to prevent logging in South-East Asia are part of a worrying trend of violence … on illegal logging in Cambodia, Radio Free Asia journalist Lem Piseth received an …
Why did so many animals escape December's tsunami?
… would have been tremors all over Southeast Asia, not just in the afflicted coastal areas. … of death and destruction throughout Southeast Asia, and their intuition saved the lives of a …
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline
… farms that now pepper the shores of Southeast Asia and more recently parts of Africa and … is as high as 60 percent in some parts of Asia. While human population pressures along …
Environmental groups were pleased at the end of 2007 when the UN announced that its under-resourced adaptation funds - established to help less-industrialised nations adapt to the effects of climate change - were to receive a cash injection.
… Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt and Development, …
The disappearance of Lohachara beneath the waters of the Bay of Bengal created the world’s first environmental refugees. Dan McDougall reports on other islanders in the Sundarbans delta who have no escape from the rising ocean. Photography by Robin Hammond
… and it is here that the waters of two of Asia’s biggest rivers, the Ganges and … tide, making the sea the most treacherous in Asia. At high tide the water flows inland, …
The aviation industry has its climate change plans, car manufacturers are working on 'eco' alternatives, and rail is considered top of the class, but what has the transport mode that delivers 90 per cent of goods to the UK done to improve upon its environmental credentials?
… a year across coastal parts of Europe and Asia, and although measures have been taken to …
If you read the international press, it is easy to be convinced that the international ‘debate’ about global warming is about whether international organisations and country governments are able to ‘wake up’ to alarming news about the future of the planet.
… at risk; Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India, and the Pacific Islands. It is …
A new generation of biofuels is poised to come into the market. Grown on unused, ‘marginal’ land they won’t compete for our food crops. But just where exactly is all this marginal land, and whose backyard might it be? Helena Paul reports
… exists in Africa, South America and across Asia. People may farm a plot individually, but … Jatropha plantations already exist in Africa, Asia and South America. However, there is no …
The uniting of 800 million rural workers against the loss of their traditional way of life gives lie to globalisation’s claims to beneficence. Resistance is far from futile, says Ed Hamer
… from Latin America to Africa and Southeast Asia. Although it is a story of despair, … as they do in Latin America, Africa and Asia, we remain resilient in the face of the …
The mountaineers who come to conquer Everest mistake their achievement – in the quest to overcome nature’s ultimate natural obstacle, humans have already won
… ‘the third pole’ and ‘the water tower of Asia’, but for how much longer? The UN …
Ravaged for decades by famine and war, Ethiopia is trying to eliminate hunger for good with organic farming. Robin Maynard met the man spearheading the campaign
… the green revolution programmes of India and Asia were starting today it’s questionable …
A dose of flu in winter is as inevitable as a broken boiler – and usually as harmless. But as public health expert Dr Michael Greger explains, intensive farming of animals around the globe may mean we are hatching out an influenza timebomb
… was 25 times deadlier (2.5 per cent), and the Asian H5N1 strain appears 25 times deadlier … for having first discovered the H5N1 virus in Asia, was among the first to blame the ‘crux …
A decade and a half after conservationists wrung from the European Parliament a commitment to end the trade, the EU remains the largest importer of parrots in the world.
… temporary ban on bird imports to the EU from Asia has already saved hundreds of thousands …
The first blows may be struck on Canadian ice, but it's at the checkout that the coup de grace is delivered. Andrew Wasley explores the UK companies profiting from the trade in seal fur
… two million cats and dogs are slaughtered in Asia each year for their fur, many of them in …
How much rainforest does it take for one celebrity to snort another one under the table? Nick Kettles investigates the devastating environmental impact of cocaine use.
… of tropical rainforest in mainland south-east Asia, with phenomenal biodiversity and where …