By using taxpayers' money to back environmentally-destructive projects around the world, ECAs are lining the pockets of multinational companies at the expense of the planet. Export credit agencies, explains Simon Retallack, are the worlds largest public financiers of environmental destruction.
ECAs Exposed Simon Retallack | 7th June 2000 News Export Credit Agencies World Trade Organisation Environmental Destruction World Bank Three Gorges Dam Yangtze River International Development …
A Norwegian research scientist can trace PCB pollution on the seabed along the Norwegian coast directly back to the manufacturer. Norwegian authorities are considering suing chemical giants such as Monsanto and Bayer for millions of pounds. They may now pay for their misdemeanours, says Tom Erik Økland
Stand up and be counted Tom Erik Økland | 8th June 2000 News PCB Industrial Pollution Norway Monsanto Bayer Environmental Toxin The Great Toxin Hunt Poison List Shipyards Norwegian Society For The …
Are we getting the facts about the world from a free press, or being led astray by a corporate media uninterested in the real issues? Writer and thinker David Edwards argues it out with environmental journalist Caspar Henderson
… 4 series, Against Nature , claimed that environmentalism is ‘based on a fear of …
This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan.
Dam Busters? David L. Price Mr DeVries | 8th July 2004 Comment Dam Beavers Environment Spring Pond Beavers Ar Dams Natural World Archive_63.jpg This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan …
Peter Rosset argues for small farms in the North...and Vandana Shiva champions those in the South
Small scale farming: A global perspective Peter Rosset Vandana Shiva | 3rd June 2000 News Local Food Production Farming Rural Communities Farmers' Markets Productivity Efficiency Agriculture Farming …
Kirkpatrick Sale is shocked by a new and disturbing view of the ecological role of the American Indian.
Again, the savage Indian Kirkpatrick Sale | 14th June 2000 News American Indian Ecological Model The Ecological Indian Shepard Krech III Powhatan John Smith Pocahontas Native Americans Indigenous …
Barbara Streisand prides herself on being a movie star with an environmental conscience. So why did she take one man to court over his efforts to protect the California coastline?
Saving Malibu from the stars Arnie Cooper | 1st February 2004 News California Overdevelopment Hollywood Coastline International Development Coastal Natural World Society investigates.jpg Barbara …
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.
Backing the Bad Guys Noreena Hertz | 1st December 2004 News World Bank Donald Rumsfeld Iraq Un Multilateral International Development US Finance World Bank Climate Change Politics And Economics …
In May the Bush administration struck another blow against the US’s crumbling environmental protections with a ruling that allows hatchery fish to be counted along with wild fish in determining the protection status of salmon in accordance with the US’s Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Bush ruling threatens US salmon’s survival Chris Floyd | 8th July 2004 News Fisheries US Bush Fish Salmon Maritime Fishing Crisis US Natural World Politics And Economics Archive_5.jpg In May the Bush …
The reckless deep-sea gold rush that could turn the North American continental shelf into one giant factory-style fish farm
High Seas Drifters Ben Belton | 8th July 2004 News Open-ocean Aquaculture NOAA North America Norwe Fishing Crisis Natural World Food And Farming Politics And Economics Pollution Archive_101.jpg The …
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?
Globalisation use it or lose it? George Helena | 1st September 2004 Comment Global Economy Globalisation Localisation Globalisation Politics And Economics Society Archive_79.jpg In the past 50 years …
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
Lyme disease - what is the real cause? Mark Walters | 1st February 2004 News Lyme Disease Hunterdon County New Jersey Ticks Environmental Changes Rabies Legionnaires Disease Landscape Changes …
An invisible electrosmog engulfs us, destroying the health of many who do not even know why they have fallen ill. Why is no one listening to the mass of evidence telling us we are frying our brains?
Killing Fields - Electromagnetic Radiation Arthur Firstenberg | 1st June 2004 News Electromagnetic Radiation Electrosmog Electromagnetic Fields Health Science And Technology Archive_7.jpg An …
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
Are you too well behaved Diane Wilson | 1st October 2004 News EPA Shrimp Boats Fisherman Industrial Pollution Plastic Formosa Texas Industrial Pollution Companies Fishing Crisis Industrial Plastics …
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?
Defra's overstretched marine budget would be cut under Tories Malcolm Tait | 1st September 2004 News Shetland Orkney Seabirds Climate Change Declining Population Food Chain Global Warming Climate …
A new threat to whales, dolphins and other marine life exists in the worlds oceans, as the US Navys new sonar technology could have huge long-term effects on their whole way of life. Leigh Calvez reveals why the lords of the sea aren't singing any more.
Deafness in the deep Leigh Calvez | 7th June 2000 News Whales Sonar US Naval Sonar Low Frequency Active Sonar Whale Behaviour Whale Song Low-frequency Sound Whales Technology Military Natural World …
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.
Amazon Crime Greg Nasmyth | 1st May 2004 News Amazon-crime_MAIN.jpg Deep in the Amazon rainforest, renegade logging firms are stealing the land of impoverished communities and stripping it of the …
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.
… there’s no such thing as altruism, or even environmentalism, at any level of government.’ …
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?
Wind turbines debate Alison Hill Alison Hill | 1st March 2004 News Wind Electricity Climate Change British Wind Energy Country Guardian Turbines Community Visual Pollution Wind Climate Change Energy …
How far would you go to fight plans for a new waste incinerator? One woman went all the way...
Fire resistant: 'Why I went to jail to protect my daughter from toxic polluters' Terri Swearingen | 1st December 2004 Ethical Living Waste And Recycling EPA Carol Browner WTI Waste Technologies …
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.
Tortured Soul Jeremy Smith | 8th July 2004 News Military Burma Unocal ATCA Pipeline Slaves L Oil Boycotts US Human Rights Military Politics And Economics Society Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his …
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.
A thirst for control: water privatisation The Ecologist | 1st March 2004 News Water Privatisation Water Bills Public Health Privatisation Privatisation Politics And Economics Society Archive_25.jpg …
The privatisation of global water services means billion-dollar profits for corporations and pollution, disconnection and soaring prices for consumers
The privatisation of water Jon Luoma | 1st March 2004 News Water Pollution Corporations Privatisation Bottled Water Human Rights Violations Fresh Water Politics And Economics Pollution Society Waste …
Within two years, Britain could be facing a series of blackouts and the ignomony of importing the resource it once considered so plentiful from a host of politically unstable countries.
Blackout Britain Mark Townsend | 1st June 2004 News Nuclear Power Stations Blackouts Electricity Gas Energy Alternatives Nuclear Carbon Dioxide Solar Wind Energy Politics And Economics Within two …