Atlantic bluefin tuna could be the first widely eaten species to be banned from being traded internationally. Would it work, and would it set a useful precedent for other species?
Bluefin tuna: can trade bans protect our fisheries? Tom Levitt Andrew Hickman | 18th March 2010 News Fish Oceans Natural World Food And Farming Bluefin Tuna bluefintuna1.jpg A bluefin tuna trade ban, …
While logging and deforestation has gained global attention the growing sand mining sector is being largely ignored. Fuelled by Singapore’s land and construction demands it is wreaking environmental destruction across south-east Asia
… their stocks plummet from sand dredging boats coming through their catch area; and … and were ‘rarely intercepted by customs boats or the navy’. It said 300 million cubic …
Aid agencies are well resourced and quick to act, but not enough of them appear to be using their power to tackle the long term problems posed by climate change. Tom Levitt reports
… to climatic extremes. So when the aid agency boats, planes and trucks pull up at a disaster …
Superpower confrontations and growing tensions in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Arctic are all part of a new Cold War, writes Alexander Reid Ross - and this time Green campaigners are under attack by both Russian authorities and NATO ...
GreenScare 2.0 - campaigners under fire in the new Cold War Alexander Reid Ross | 28th June 2014 News War Fossil Fuels Politics Ukraine Middle East Russia NATO pipeline-blast.jpg Superpower …
The recent death of Indian environmentalist Amit Jethva was the latest in a growing number of disturbing incidents of brutality and violence against activists, report Ambika Hiranandani and Tom Levitt
Indian activists risk death to expose illegal logging, pollution and mining Ambika Hiranandani Tom Levitt | 14th December 2010 News Environmentalists Activists India Deforestation Natural World …
Government orders to use dangerous organophosphate chemicals left hundreds of sheep farmers with debilitating ill health, Tom Levitt reports on the UK's forgotten pesticide tragedy
Ghosts of farming: Britain's forgotten sheep farmers poisoned by pesticides Tom Levitt | 28th March 2012 News Pesticide OP Chemical Farming Sheep Food And Farming Health Sheep Dip News Focus …
A grassroots movement of eco-activists is achieving unprecedented success in challenging fossil fuel developments in the Cascadia region of the US's Pacific northwest, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And that has attracted the wrong kind of attention - from local police, FBI and right-wing legislators determined to protect the corporate right to exploit and pollute.
… that would send a hundred or more kayaks and boats into the Columbia River for a symbolic …