Undeterred by a series of terrifying accidents, the Bush administration is pushing ahead with its potentially apocalyptic biological weapons programme.
One of our germs is missing Heather Wokusch | 1st June 2005 News Germs Health Policy Pharmaceuticals Health Pollution Science And Technology Society Undeterred by a series of terrifying accidents, …
The first in a new series on biodiversity conservation offers a radical perspective on ecological crisis.
… a temptation to generalise from our evolved biology, from our apehood-ancestral origins. … cynicism and fatalism. Prisoners of our biology we may be to some degree but humanity … Richard Lewontin’s eloquence helps: “Biology is not physics, because organisms are …
Household sewage waste rather than farm slurry should be the target of tough pollution measures to reduce phosphorus levels in English rivers, says study
… growing periods. 'The critical time for biology is during the growing period when … but this is not the critical period for biology and in many cases the phosphorus in … the complex relationships between hydrology, biology, chemistry and habitat, as well as our …
With the UN Ocean Conference beginning in New York next week, Elizabeth A Kirk asks: can we devise a legal system that promotes the ecological resilience of the oceans? To do so will mean placing ecosystems at the heart of decision making, over and above countries' selfish 'national interests'. It will be tough, but if we fail it's hard to see how the gamut of problems - from ocean acidification to plastic pollution and overfishing - can ever be solved.
UN Ocean Conference: can the law protect our ocean ecosystems? Elizabeth A Kirk Nottingham Law School | 1st June 2017 News Oceans Law Pollution Un Fishing Commons plastic-ocea-2-cut.jpg With the UN …
The pandemic itself is a powerful, daily reminder and with an extremely high cost of life showing how nature and human species are interdependent.
… at the Federal University of Pelotas/Biology Institute. José Domingues de Godoi … at the Federal University of Pelotas/Biology Institute. We have incompetent, …
Record leap in methane levels as greenhouse gases reach new highs in 2021.
Greenhouse gases reached record highs Emily Beament | 28th October 2022 | News Methane Climate Breakdown 3426995578_34d8c65207_k.jpg Record leap in methane levels as greenhouse gases reach new highs …
Methane emissions from fossil fuels owing to human activity is around 25 percent to 40 percent higher than thought
Methane shock Nilima Marshall | 20th February 2020 News Climate Breakdown Greenhouse Gasses Methane Science & Systems methaneice.jpg Methane emissions from fossil fuels owing to human activity is …
Brazil has suffered its biggest ever industrial disaster, write Ana Luisa Naghettini & Geraldo Lopes. Breached and overflowing dams have released a massive slug of toxic muds and tailings from iron mining into the country's fifth largest river system that provides drinking water for downstream cities, destroying ecosystems in rivers and vast areas of biologically fragile ocean.
… or so." The Augusto Ruschi station of Marine Biology, established in Aracruz, Santa Cruz, …
Lethal pollution and damage from construction works continues to threaten the endangered species and indigenous people of Okinawa, Japan
US military bases in Okinawa threaten ecosystems Temo Dias | 1st October 2018 Comment Okinawa Japan Pollution US Military coral-reefs-1381740_1920.jpg Lethal pollution and damage from construction …
Activists in Gloucestershire are battling to block the construction of a massive incinerator that they see as a blight on the landscape, costly, polluting, wasteful and undermining recycling, writes Dan Hinge. Now the fight, backed by superstar actor Jeremy Irons, just entered a new phase after a tribunal forced the County Council to reveal essential details of the contract it had signed.
Up in smoke: the fight to block Gloucestershire's unwanted incinerator Dan Hinge | 24th April 2017 Activism Waste Pollution Recycling Landscape UK England incinerator m5 plume-cut.jpg Activists in …
It’s time for the ocean to to lead the way in the fight against climate change.
A sea change in climate action Lisa Levin Natalya Gallo Bobbi-Jo Dobush | 11th December 2020 | News Climate Breakdown Oceans Paris Agreement Editor’s Picks killer-whales-cut.jpg It’s time for the …
Britain has a serious and unnecessary drug habit, but the implications of our pill-forevery-ill culture go far beyond the adverse effects on human health. The complex chemicals in modern pharmaceuticals, as well as the manufacturing processes involved, leave a massive industrial footprint on the natural world that is largely ignored by both science and government.
Drugs on tap John Naish | 30th April 2009 News Drugs Consumerism Pills Prescription Drugs Drugs Urban Living Consumerism Drugs Health Pollution Science And Technology New Picture 1.jpg Britain has a …
For long periods animals in ancient oceans could live only in shallow surface waters, above vast 'dead zones' inhabited only by anoxic bacteria, writes Richard Pancost. Human activity is now creating immense new dead zones, and global warming could be helping as it reduces vertical mixing of waters. Could this be the beginning of something big?
Ancient 'dead seas' offer a stark warning for our own future Richard Pancost University of Bristol | 29th January 2016 Comment Oceans Ecology Geology Pollution plesiosaur-cut.jpg For long periods …
Economist Ann Pettifor predicted the 2008 economic crash. And predicted a 'shuddering shock' just ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Find out what she sees coming next...
Pettifor's case for a Green New Deal Brendan Montague | 26th October 2021 | News Climate Breakdown Coronavirus Economics COP26 Festival Of Wellbeing Green New Deal 43113281900_4c1d715b68_k.jpg …
With growing evidence of harm to physical and mental health caused by continuous pulsed em radiation from 'smart' electricity meters, Lynne Wycherley asks: have we underestimated risks to heart function and the nervous system? And of interference with embedded medical devices, such as cardiac pacemakers? It's time to switch to over-wire or fibre communications to bring the 'smart green grid' of the future to electrosmog-free reality.
… magnetic - were not placing stresses on our biology. Professor Magda Havas posits risks to … papers on the possible impacts of DE on human biology. Though more data and high-quality …
'The rush to mine this pristine and unexplored environment risks creating terrible impacts that cannot be reversed.'
Attenborough urges halt to deep sea mining plans Brendan Montague | 12th March 2020 News Climate Breakdown Biodiversity Fauna & Flora International Sir David Attenborough 'The rush to mine this …