The coast of Peru is being blighted by a fishmeal industry that's sprung up to satisfy the West’s voracious appetite for salmon – now marine life, human health and whole ecosystems are paying the price. Andrew Wasley and Jim Wickens report
… plants process anchovies caught by the city’s fishing fleets, making it one of the … Romolo Loayza Aguila, a biologist from the city’s Universidad Nacional del Santa, says …
Earthquakes and poisoned wells are setting off a revolt against fracking in Romania, revealing deep fault lines between the rural heartlands and the urban political elite. Jim Wickens & Paraic O'Brien report on a country at war with itself.
Romania - a Peasants Revolt against fracking Jim Wickens Paraic O'Brien | 18th February 2014 News Fracking Romania Fossil Fuels Oil Corporations pungesti-protest.png Earthquakes and poisoned wells …
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods.
… responsible for the chronic pollution of the city’s rivers and the systematic poisoning of … from the chromium poisoning and chromium toxicity. Dermatitis, skin ulcers, gastric upset, …
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods.
… responsible for the chronic pollution of the city’s rivers and the systematic poisoning of … from the chromium poisoning and chromium toxicity. Dermatitis, skin ulcers, gastric upset, …
The unspoilt pastoral landscape of Transylvania is the latest battlefield in the war against aggressive fossil energy extraction. Jim Wickens reports on the farming communities fighting back against multinational energy companies.
… into submission by waves of protests in city streets numbering tens of thousands. And … a 26 year old activist from the nearby city of Brasov, as she blocks the road to …
Western consumers are inadvertently driving the Sumatran elephant to extinction by eating, washing and wearing - in cosmetics - the derivatives of a fruit that is destroying the animal's last remaining forest habitat. Jim Wickens reports
Palm oil's forgotten victims: Sumatran elephants suffer in rush for 'liquid ivory' Jim Wickens | 30th June 2013 News Wildlife Natural World Food And Farming News Investigations Palm Oil Forests …
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business...
… and in some cases exceeding the smog-infested city of LA further South. A medical study …