European investment companies continue to tout the biofuel as a 'wonder-crop' despite serious environmental and social impacts - Friends of the Earth report
… Several trials involving using jatropha as an aviation fuel have been carried out. But … and guilt-free air travel. When will the aviation industry get is head out of the …
Green Living Editor Ruth Styles answers your eco-lifestyle dilemmas. This week it’s the question of local versus organic produce under the spotlight
… Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the aviation industry accounts for only three … this figure has been questioned by the Aviation Environmental Federation (AEF), which …
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis.
… moment you stepped onto your ‘cheap’ flight. Aviation, the fastest growing contributor to … a huge hidden subsidy. It pays no tax on aviation fuel and no VAT on the purchase of … airports are kept to a minimum by the Civil Aviation Authority regulatory regime to well …
Since defeating the government in 1984 over its compulsory warble fly erradication scheme, Mark Purdey has been travelling the world to find the real cause of BSE and vCJD. His conclusions are controversial, fascinating, and if proved right, will cost the government millions in compensation.
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Seaweed is known for its culinary uses and has seen a renaissance in past years thanks to its health claims and a distinctive taste - but there are more ecological benefits to seaweed that currently remain untapped.
… on to be used within the heavy transport and aviation sector. Another project called Feedme …
With little hope of a binding deal on climate change at the latest UN summit, campaigners are hoping that Africa's COP will tackle the issue that plagues the continent most: agriculture
… treat it the same way as the transport and aviation sectors.' Greenpeace's Langhoff hopes …
Palm oil is in our food, cleaning products and fuel. But it's destroying rainforest and contributing to climate change. Sustainable certification schemes have been set up, but campaigners increasingly question whether they work
… and produce more emissions per capita than aviation. So how can you ensure that the …