Logging, mining and agriculture are opening up Guinea-Bissau's once intact forests to the ravages of the bush-meat trade, an Ecologist investigation finds
Bush-meat demand fuelling secretive trade in Guinea-Bissau's primates Dearbhla Crosse | 29th September 2010 News Bush-meat Primates Logging Deforestation Politics And Economics img_5473.jpg Logging, …
Ecologist investigation reveals three-quarters of London councils giving out wrong advice on the safe disposal of mercury-containing compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs)
Councils' 'just throw it out' advice on toxic lightbulbs The Ecologist | 10th March 2010 News Waste And Recycling Lightbulbs brokencfl.jpg Ecologist investigation reveals three-quarters of London …
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...
Undercover investigation:The shocking cost of US 'mega-dairies' Jim Wickens | 21st September 2010 News Dairy Factory Farming Milk Pesticides Pollution Food And Farming rotary-parlour-cropped.jpg With …
Exclusive film examining the bitter fall out from gas extraction in the US involving a process known as hydraulic fracturing - or fracking. And it's coming to Europe...
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Tesco and Carrefour among those retailers and brands failing to meet their legal responsibilities to provide consumers with information on toxic or carcinogenic substances used in products they sell
Tesco caught breaching EU rules on harmful chemicals Tom Levitt | 13th October 2010 News Tesco Chemicals Health Plastics chemicalreachitems.jpg A number of consumer items including flip flops and …
The Environment Agency and Interpol are being forced to tackle the growing trade in electrical waste to stop our unwanted TVs, computers and refrigerators falling into the wrong hands
… Paul Leinster confirmed to the Ecologist that investigations currently being conducted into … its new intelligence-led approach to crime investigations has resulted in a 98 per cent …
Defra urged to stop 'downplaying' the problem and ban 'unacceptable' advertising of antibiotics to farmers
E.coli and salmonella resistance 'spreading' due to antibiotics overuse Tom Levitt | 23rd September 2010 News Food And Farming Drugs Antibiotics Health cow.jpg The use of important human antibiotic …
UK government needs to 'wake up' to the dangers of offshore drilling and outlaw the practice, demand activists
Gulf oil disaster not unique to BP and will 'happen again' The Ecologist | 9th September 2010 News Oil Gulf Oil Spill Bp Energy Greenpeace Platform Platform London oilspillbpmexico.jpg Activists …
Tigers - subject of this month's unprecedented conservation summit in St Petersburg - are just one species being devastated by the illegal wildlife trade, as this unique advert featuring the Indiana Jones star explains
Harrison Ford on the illegal wildlife trade The Ecologist | 25th November 2010 Other Tigers Wildlife Trade Natural World Conservation Video Habitats harrison-ford.jpg Tigers - subject of this month's …
Workers are dying in conditions described as 'hell on earth' yet the west's shipping industry continues sending ships to the country for disposal
UK sending ships to deadly scrapyards in Bangladesh The Ecologist | 24th February 2010 News Bangladesh Waste And Recycling Ships agate burning.jpg Eight workers were killed and 13 injured when the …
In the month that renewable energy incentives are introduced in the UK, Spanish authorities are investigating companies who claim to have produced solar energy at night
Spanish nighttime solar energy fraud ‘unlikely in UK’ The Ecologist | 16th April 2010 News Energy Feed-in Tariffs Fraud Spain pv.jpeg It is alleged that solar energy facilities in Spain have been …
Despite disturbing claims about the impact of uranium, ten-thousand proposals for exploration in the Grand Canyon area have been submitted. A key fuel for nuclear power, the US must now decide between full scale uranium mining, partial mining or a twenty year moratorium. Leana Hosia investigates
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Violence and incarceration for months or even years found on ships off coast of west Africa, which supply European consumers with fish
'Slavery' uncovered on trawlers fishing for Europe Felicity Lawrence The Guardian | 30th September 2010 News Fish Food And Farming Africa bycatch.jpg Workers were found to be living in squalid …
B9 Shipping and the Greenheart project are pioneering new, fully sustainable, forms of ship design. Despite industry scepticism the boats - based on wind power and biomethane - could signify a return to the great age of sail, reports Ewan Kingston
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Study predicts the yields of jatropha will fall in the next decade and that it is better suited to community-level, rather than industrial-scale, production for the biofuel market
Jatropha better suited to local communities, not biofuel markets The Ecologist | 6th July 2010 News Jatropha Biofuels Food And Farming Energy Renewable Energy Alternative Fuels Biodiesel …
The Church of England has dealt a significant blow to Vedanta Resources plc by pulling £3.75 million worth of investments from the company on ethical grounds
Church sells stake in controversial mining company, Vedanta The Ecologist | 5th February 2010 News Vedanta Mining Energy Society 37423.jpg Labourers remove boulders from the landscape to make a road …
Vane Minerals currently exploring for uranium deposits on the edge of the Grand Canyon National Park in area with alleged history of contamination affecting former miners and local indigenous population
British mining company in controversial uranium project near Grand Canyon Tom Levitt | 2nd November 2010 News Mining Nuclear Energy Health Uranium News doc 1 009.jpg Local people blame uranium mining …
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 urged to improve recycling facilities after review of waste options finds it has the smallest environmental footprint
Recycling best for everything except garden waste The Ecologist | 17th March 2010 News Waste And Recycling recyclinglogo.jpg Householders currently recycle around 37 per cent of their waste …
Advocates of Britain's biggest dairy farm, at Nocton, have sold the concept on the basis of its outstanding animal welfare and environmental credentials. But new evidence suggests this may not be possible without public funding. Andrew Wasley reports
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In the wake of President Sarkozy's crackdown on the Roma people, an Ecologist investigation uncovers how poverty and discrimination are forcing persecuted communities to scratch a living recycling France's growing mountain of e-waste - potentially threatening health and raising questions over the effectiveness of waste policies
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Persecuted Roma communities in France are being forced to scavenge for dangerous e-waste, potentially threatening health and questioning the country's recycling policies
Poverty forces Roma people to scavenge toxic e-waste Carolyn Lebel Jemima Roberts | 12th October 2010 News Roma E-waste Waste And Recycling News web-no3.jpg Persecuted Roma communities in France are …
The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights
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