Campaign group Fight the Flights begins a High Court challenge to overturn Newham Council's decision to almost double the number of flights from 73,000 to 120,000 a year
High Court battle over London City Airport expansion Tom Levitt | 18th November 2010 News Airport London City Airport Aviation Flights Climate Change News londoncityairport.jpg London mayor Boris …
A rise in the uptake of technologies like aquaponics and aeroponics is helping to boost the growth of urban farming, but how much of our food can we really produce in the cities? Tom Levitt reports...
… much of our food can we really produce in the cities? Tom Levitt reports... Twenty-something … bring commercial vegetable growing into our cities, close to where most of the consumers … enthusiasts in London and other cities around the world. The opening of a café …
Theologian Martin Palmer tells Tom Levitt how we can learn from previous man-made ecological collapses in Britain and create a 'new narrative' that challenges our dominant consumer culture
… can't feed the troops, you can't protect the cities, and if you can't protect the cities, then everything falls apart. So that … of London in past crises, do you think cities are particularly at risk? One of the …
Plans for a new international airport in the coastal city of Mumbai will destroy yet more of its mangrove ecosystems, and there are fears the deal has already been closed
… green spaces in high-density towns and cities as migrating birds look to stop for …
The acclaimed buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks to the Ecologist about the loss of biodiversity and why human vulnerability is not something we should despair about
… being an urban species? Well the life in the cities and the life in the countryside are … is losing itself for the sake of the cities. Most environmentalists narrow down the … that we should not continue to rush into the cities, but we should try to create …
Government lawyers set to argue in High Court that EU rules allow them to delay meeting air pollution targets until as late as 2025 in London despite growing health crisis
… to reduce air pollution in London and other cities, say campaigners, at the beginning of … air pollutant, Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), in UK cities. Exposure to NO2 and other air … to an increasing amount of health problems in cities, including reduced lung capacity in …
On-going study of children in east London finds air pollution a factor in lung impairment - but political deadlock and lack of public awareness are holding up solutions
… an effect, then that’s an argument for other cities to introduce these sorts of measures. …
Green revolution approach of expensive fertilisers and seeds is failing and needs replacing with projects that prevent food waste, build resilience to climate change, and strengthen city farming
Worldwatch report attacks criminalising of seed saving and promotes agroecology Tom Levitt | 13th January 2011 News Agroecology Food And Farming Worldwatch Seeds Gm Biotech Africa …
The isolation of the white wilderness is coming to an end. Scientists and activists are urging caution but Russia is leading an urgent rush to exploit the Arctic’s oil and gas reserves. Tom Levitt reports
Putin’s Russia will lead a ‘new era of Arctic industrialisation’ Tom Levitt | 19th October 2011 News Arctic Russia Climate Change Natural World arctic2.jpg The Arctic could be ice-free in Summer …
Water scarcity and mis-management in India are creating a significant human and ecological crisis that will only be worsened by climate change
… a livelihood villagers have migrated to the cities, adding to existing urban problems and … are migrating into a world of poverty in the cities. ‘The reliability of water has gone for … problems of water scarcity. Rapidly growing cities are taking more water supplies away …
Ecological campaigner Million Belay talks about why protecting Ethiopia's biodiversity is so important and why he opposes the intervention of philanthropists like Bill Gates
… it is a top down curriculum set up in the cities and probably copied from England. It … there are differences. For example, in our cities in Ethiopia we don't see things like … to walk outside in nature even in your big cities. Useful links Movement for Ecological …
'Risky and secretive' gambling on the price of coffee, cocoa and wheat is leading to unstable food prices and exacerbating poverty and malnutrition but creating billions of pounds for the banking sector
Goldman Sachs makes $1 billion profit on food price speculation Tom Levitt | 19th July 2010 News Food And Farming Banks Food Crisis Speculation Society marketplace.jpg Dramatic food price rises in …
By quantifying the economic benefit of its trees through air pollution, shade and flood alleviation, the English Riviera town of Torbay hopes to reverse traditional local antagonism
… according to the Campaign group ' Trees for Cities '. Despite such evidence, just seven … in their districts. Useful links Trees for Cities Trees in Towns report 2008 READ …
A new vision to replace our grazing land with energy crops will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but many are unwilling to embrace its suggestions for our future diet and countryside
… It may also change the look of our cities if people start to take a renewed … much everywhere except big mountains and cities. Perennial crops are available for …
The next world population milestone of 8 billion will come sooner than we think - perhaps as early as 2025 - yet we remain reluctant to debate the issue. A forthcoming Royal Society report may force us to
… areas of environmental risk, such as coastal cities, said Beddington, which as the recent …
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates
Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis Tom Levitt | 13th September 2011 News Food Speculation Food And Farming Banks Trading Politics And Economics ecostorm_800px 600px.jpg As …
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates
Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis Tom Levitt | 13th September 2011 News Food Speculation Food And Farming Banks Trading Politics And Economics ecostorm_800px 600px.jpg As …
Million dollar fines and compensation claims may dent the profits of BP and other companies admitting responsibility for ecological disasters but, on their own, are they enough of a deterrent?
BP oil spill: can environmental crime ever be made to pay? Tom Levitt | 24th May 2010 News Bp Oil Energy Politics And Economics Ecocide oilspillbpmexico.jpg Oil companies like BP already factor in …
As well as local outrage over 'fracking' drilling there is new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential gas boom near Blackpool
UK gas fracking boom 'may be dirtier than coal' Tom Levitt | 13th April 2011 News Shale Gas Fracturing Energy Coal Methane Greenhouse Gas Emissions Investigations fracturing.jpg Methane emissions …
Despite outrage in the US over ‘fracturing’ techniques used to extract shale gas and new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal, the UK has given the go-ahead to companies here to begin drilling. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential unconventional gas boom near Blackpool
UK shale gas boom 'may be dirtier than coal' Tom Levitt | 13th April 2011 News Shale Gas Energy Investigations Renewables Coal Methane fracturing.jpg Methane emissions have been found to escape …
A new Ecologist-produced film, to be screened at the forthcoming Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Japan, highlights how the rights of indigenous peoples and their sustainable use of natural resources are being ignored by the Bangladesh Government
Sunderbans mangrove-forest livelihoods under threat from corruption and resource exploitation Tom Levitt | 11th October 2010 News Biodiversity Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Mangroves fppimage.jpg The …