The seabirds of Shetland and Orkney are in ‘deep trouble’, according to the RSPB. Could this be the first real indicator that our lives are about to change quickly and dramatically as a result of climate change?
… chancellor Oliver Letwin has looked at the environmental empire known as the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), … sea fisheries, fish marketing, and the marine environment in England and Wales. The day …
Markets rise and markets fall, but the environment is in a terminal slump. Financial turmoil will pass - it's the planet we must focus on.
… 1999 Comment Financial Crises Turmoil Planet Environment Climate Change Carbon Dioxide … Markets rise and markets fall, but the environment is in a terminal slump. Financial … of ordinary people. The news from the environmental front is just as terrifying: …
According to the World Health Organisation, more than 30 serious new diseases have emerged in the last three decades. Mark Walters describes one of them, Lyme disease, and shows how our destruction of the environment is inextricably linked to its proliferation
… Disease Hunterdon County New Jersey Ticks Environmental Changes Rabies Legionnaires … disease, and shows how our destruction of the environment is inextricably linked to its … of public health, told me. ‘We had an environmental staff of four, and spent most of …
Are zoos an essential tool for preserving biodiversity in the 21st century or a Noah's-Ark-style anachronism riddled with woodworm and sinking fast?
… to man’s impact on and exploitation of the environment, the wild is now a fragmented and … That is where they belong. Artificial environments are no substitute. Many animals … our behaviour to minimise our impact on the environment, species survival and animal …
In the past 50 years the global economy has grown by over 500 per cent... the richest fifth of the world now earn 86 per cent of global income… the poorest fifth earn just 1.3 per cent… life expectancy in the world’s most ‘developed’ countries is 79 years… in the least ‘developed’ it is still just 42… we consume 22 million tonnes of oil every day… chop down 1 per cent of the world’s forests every year… and have killed 90 per cent of the world’s big fish. Has the time come to give up on globalisation?
… preventing the damage inflicted on both the environment and the rights of workers, … approach – one that would achieve all the environmental outcomes we seek while … Among the requirements would be that the full environmental cost of the products they sell, …
Do wind turbines provide an affordable means of harnessing a limitless source of clean power, or are they inefficient blots on the landscape that devastate birdlife and are more likely to exacerbate than reduce CO2 emissions?
… represent a clear and present threat to our environment and to us. We’re also at a point … power brings with it many benefits – both environmental and economic. Every unit of … were among a delegation received by the then environment minister Michael Meacher. The …
This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan.
… DeVries | 8th July 2004 Comment Dam Beavers Environment Spring Pond Beavers Ar Dams … Ryan DeVries by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan. The … come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been …
How far would you go to fight plans for a new waste incinerator? One woman went all the way...
… first ever hearings to look at the ways the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bent the … of children. Any lead released into the environment is cause for concern, but when it … set up to protect public health and the environment do so only if it’s not threatening …
As the world’s poorest countries sink further and further into debt, Western corporations grow fat from government-backed projects that fuel conflicts, harm the environment and have built-in kickbacks.
… projects that fuel conflicts, harm the environment and have built-in kickbacks. On 5 … to screen out projects with adverse environmental and social impacts, no … that their projects comply with human rights, environmental and development guidelines, and …
Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has ripped out virgin forests, dug up minerals and metals, and dumped nuclear waste with little regard for the fragile ecology of the Tibetan plateau.
… on one of the most sensitive and important environments on earth – the Tibetan plateau, … the millennium, ‘Thus, the health of Tibet’s environment is not an inconsequential regional … Rongji was sent to Sichuan to investigate the environmental situation soon afterwards, in an …
A harrowing insight into the hugely profitable and brutal world of captive dolphins
… understanding and stewardship [of] our environment’. Sea World says its goal is ‘to … ‘enclosure’, ‘aquarium’ and ‘controlled environment’. In the event of being asked … news about what is happening in the natural environment does not sell tickets.’ The simple …
How the Bush regime is planning to use nuclear powered spacecraft and weapons to secure US control of outer space.
… as ‘the main source of Plutonium 238 in the environment’. The report said: ‘A worldwide … Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, believes that Washington’s … budget, and 13 per cent would clean up the environment’. Sadly, there is little hope of …
With childhood obesity becoming epidemic in the UK, should food advertising to children be allowed to continue?
FOR: Jeremy Preston vs. Neville Rigby AGAINST
… interests are best served if a nurturing environment is exchanged for a world of … of healthy food choices but also study in an environment of vending machines, snack bars …
The most successful celebrity endorsement ever, Prunella Scales’ TV ads have added more than £2.2 billion to Tesco’s profts. And yet she says she really cares about the environment.
… And yet she says she really cares about the environment. She was president of the CPRE …
The Treasury signalled yesterday that money raised from the sale of carbon credits will not go into a clean technology fund as the EC had requested but instead be diverted to general treasury funds.
… as undermining the credibility of the EU’s environment policies. …
It takes no more than a gentle nudge to push a man over the edge of a cliff, but it is almost impossible to haul him back before he hits the ground. Given that we show no sign of putting a stop to global warming, Peter Bunyard takes a look at what the future might hold
… the world where we have already ravaged the environment. If we take into account neglected … forests warm themselves and their surrounding environment when all around is cold. As Hadley …
Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. Now he is taking Unocal, one of the US companies that trades with the murderous regime, to court. One of the most wanted men in Burma, talks to The Ecologist.
… had suffered years of economic collapse, environmental degradation and human rights … consortium has shown a disregard for the environment. Four times more money was … court if it violates human rights and causes environmental degradation; not if it is paying …
The biggest and most indiscriminate killers of wildlife on the planet, commercial fishing fleets have brought us to the edge of a maritime ecological disaster, with fish stocks facing extinction all around the world.
… it may already be too late. Charles Clover is environment editor for The Daily Telegraph. … Certain fishing methods inflict damage on the environment or non-target species or both: … the damaging effects they have on the environment. For example, their fish are not …
The mainstream farming media dismiss biodynamics as a fad affordable only by the wealthy – so why are big arable farmers sowing seeds under full moons?
… and the respect with which they treat the environment. Compare that to the widespread …
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, renegade logging firms are stealing the land of impoverished communities and stripping it of the trees on which the whole world depends. Greg Nasmyth boards a 700-tonne icebreaker to join a group of Greenpeace activists in their bid to stop them.
… as chief inspector at the Brazilian Federal Environment Agency (Ibama), he is leading a … by Chico Mendes, the rubber-tapper and environmental leader assassinated by a … lengths to advertise its social, ethical and environmental values. I spoke to DLH’s forests …
Fresh, convenient, versatile or overpriced leaves soaked in pesticides and produced by slave labour?
… Thetford doctor Giles Smith wrote to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) … contributory factor in creating an environment in which illegal activity by … ‘We have substantially changed the chemical environment of the womb,’ he says. ‘Pregnant …
During the past decade or so, international trade agreements have been dramatically expanded to encompass affairs that had always previously been strictly matters of domestic concern.
… on government efforts to promote health, environmental protection and other social … can play a crucial role in safeguarding the environment, universal access to resources, …