The Ecologist brings you in-depth investigations, covering some of the most important environmental issues of the day....
… Investigations 27th November 2009 News Investigations Investigates_70.jpg The Ecologist brings you in-depth investigations, covering some of the most …
Pirates ruled Somalia’s waves last year, but a greater crime is still being perpetrated by the multinational companies using the mainland as a toxic dumping ground. Chris Milton reports
Somalia used as toxic dumping ground Chris Milton | 1st March 2009 News Somalia Toxic Dumping Waste Crime MNC Multinational Companies Pirates Environment Pollution Society News web pic 2_263.jpg …
Illegally caught 'dirty' fish threatens local fishermen, consumer health and the future of the world's fisheries. The EJF's Pirate Fishing Campaign is tackling the problem head on
… fishing operations, and pushes for action. Investigations by the EJF, a UK based charity … documents the findings from 14 months of EJF investigations, in which pirate fishing … is the Ecologist’s Green Living Editor. EJF investigations reveal that the fish is handled …
Recent abductions and threats against activists trying to prevent logging in South-East Asia are part of a worrying trend of violence against those exposing environmental issues
… for action. 'If it wasn’t for the actions of investigations by activists and journalists … the problems wouldn’t be out there. 'The investigations provide the building blocks. …
Calls for national testing in UK pig herd after survey finds superbug to be prevalent throughout Europe
Pig MRSA widespread in Europe The Ecologist | 25th November 2009 News Pigs MRSA Health Food And Farming pigs.jpg The Soil Association is calling for the UK to carry out its own national survey of …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports
The Killing Fields – human rights abuses and environmental devastation in Paraguay’s soya fields Andrew Wasley | 13th October 2009 Other Food And Farming Genetic Modification Soya Meat Livestock …
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… Seek out campaigns, context and investigations that you're unlikely to find in … Here is where you find campaigns, context and investigations that would otherwise be spiked …
Find out if your council is about to waste your waste in favour of incinerators with our interactive map
Councils accused of ignoring biogas The Ecologist | 7th August 2009 News Energy Biogas Waste And Recycling Food And Farming wastemap2.jpg Find out if your council plans to waste your waste with our …
Agency calls on courts to hand out stronger penalties for waste and pollution criminals
Environment Agency demands tougher fines for polluters The Ecologist | 6th November 2009 News Waste And Recycling Pollution Health rivertrent.jpg The Environment Agency are still investigating the …
'Chaotic' legislation in Indonesia is allowing palm oil plantation companies looking to produce biofuel to bully local people off their land
… the necessary permits. Coercion Field investigations carried out by EIA and Telepak … Forest Campaigner at EIA, ‘yet EIA/Telapak investigations have found massive …
When PCB transformers exploded in a New York university in 1991, contaminating the campus with dioxins, it set Eric Francis Coppolino on the path to becoming an environmental journalist.
Dioxin Dorms: Why I Can’t Give Up On New Paltz Eric Francis Coppolino | 19th June 2009 News Dioxon New Paltz PCB Health Politics And Economics Society investigates.jpg When PCB transformers exploded …
Oil company admits guilt and expresses ‘regret’ over safety breaches after oil depot explosion that caused injuries and environmental damage
Oil giant Total pleads guilty in Buncefield case The Ecologist | 13th November 2009 News Buncefield Natural World Health Pollution inthenews.jpg Lawyers believe Total's sentencing could set a …
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… That state is aptly summarised by the three investigations that follow. In the first, …
Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at those who fight the abuse of marine environments.
The struggle to report on the marine environment Andrew Wasley | 1st June 2009 Activism Overfishing Oceans Fish Andre Wasley Greenpeace Seashepards Wildlife Civil_disobedience_MAIN.jpg Reporting from …
International Rivers has highlighted the environmental damage caused by the world's biggest hydropower project amid concern about plans for two new dams in China
Three Gorges Dam 'a model for disaster' The Ecologist | 30th October 2009 News River Three Gorges Dam China Natural World Energy threegorgesdam.jpg The Three Gorges Dam is a 'model of the past' …
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline
Selling Indonesia's coast for cheap prawns and profit Jim Wickens | 24th November 2009 News Politics And Economics Natural World Prawn Shrimp Mangroves Erosion Indonesia harvesting.jpg In an …
Reporting from the front-line of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at those combating illegal logging
Tackling illegal logging Andrew Wasley | 1st April 2009 Activism Wildlife Environmentalism Forest Forests Activists Civil_disobedience_MAIN.jpg Reporting from the front-line of environmental …
Attempts to halt and reverse a decade of worsening air quality in London are being held up by political indecision
Political 'buck-passing' on air pollution risks lives Tom Levitt | 4th November 2009 News Pollution Air Natural World Health trafficlondon.jpg Attempts to halt and reverse a decade of worsening air …
Drinking water in area surrounding the factory is contaminated and creating a 'second Bhopal disaster', say campaigners
Bhopal chemical poisoning continuing 25 years on The Ecologist | 3rd December 2009 News Bhopal Health India bhopal.jpg Local communities near the factory have little choice but to use the …
The first blows may be struck on Canadian ice, but it's at the checkout that the coup de grace is delivered. Andrew Wasley explores the UK companies profiting from the trade in seal fur
UK-registered companies connected to controversial Canadian seal cull Andrew Wasley | 12th May 2009 News Seals Seal Hunting Fur Trade Animal Rights Animal Rights Campaigns Conservation Animal Rights …
Oceans becoming noisier as sounds travel further in increasingly acidic water
Marine mammals under threat from ocean noise pollution The Ecologist | 21st December 2009 News Ocean Acidification Climate Change Carbon Emissions Natural World dolphins.jpg Whales and dolphins …
The mountaineers who come to conquer Everest mistake their achievement – in the quest to overcome nature’s ultimate natural obstacle, humans have already won
Everest in peace Eifion Rees | 1st June 2009 News Investigation Natural World Mount Everest Monutineering Mountainclimbing Travel investigates.jpg The mountaineers who come to conquer Everest mistake …