One of the biggest landfill sites in the US is in the process of becoming a nature reserve and a recreation ground. Is this just papering over the cracks, or can our rubbish heaps really turn into something beautiful?
… Can a landfill site ever return to nature? Nick … | 6th July 2010 News Waste And Recycling Landfill Rubbish Freshkills Natural World … freshkillsgasgauge.jpg One of the biggest landfill sites in the US is in the process of …
How one group is restoring the lost lustre of England's fruit orchards, and why a landfill site turned out to be a blessing in disguise
… lustre of England's fruit orchards, and why a landfill site turned out to be a blessing in … also been able to tap into things like the Landfill Community Fund , which has allowed us … the Trust's - and the landscape's - favour. Landfill benefit There are other peculiar …
Plastic Pollution Coalition is a new campaign calling for an outright ban on single-use plastic products. Will you support them?
… is 'recycled' or carted out of site to landfills at home or abroad. At the same time … research READ MORE... INVESTIGATION Landfill-on-sea Plastic rubbish gets tossed … its impact on the world's largest floating landfill. HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE 10 campaign …
Twice as expensive as petrol, three times the price of milk, and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Is it worth it, and what impact is it having on our environment?
… Supplies Water Sources Plastics Consumerism Landfills Recycling Bottled Water Companies …
Argentinean academic and activist Raul Montenegro on why indigenous people hold the keys to survival, why GM technologies only profit big business and how nuclear power ignores the rights of future generations
… community in closing the second largest landfill of municipal waste in Argentina. KM: …
All too often language is used to objectify nature, writes Caspar Henderson. But there's another, older vocabulary - introduced in this 'counter-desecration phrasebook' - that achieves the reverse: connecting us with the wonders of life and arousing delight in the natural world.
… each other like pieces of rotting crud in landfill, the words may sound like nonsense - …
Following this month's intense rainfall in the north of England an Environment Agency alert has highlighted the flood risk to the crumbling nuclear waste dump adjoining Sellafield in Cumbria, writes Marianne Birkby - a dump which remains in use despite its condemnation by the EA in 2005 due to its likely destruction by rising seas. Now it really is time to close the gate on Drigg!
… flood waters entering the site, eroding the landfill and contaminating land, river and and …
With 300,000 hectares of forests, fields and steppes damaged by fire, the war in Ukraine has done huge damage to the country's environment, writes Dimiter Kenarov. But there has been an upside: a new green spirit is taking root, and young volunteers are stepping in to protect wild spaces.
… Hora and move it again, this time to a legal landfill. In Ukraine, civic spirit has been …
If the world is to feed a growing population against a backdrop of climate change and biodiversity loss, argues Charles Windsor, we must put a cost on the damage we are causing to soils, water, climate and ecosystems.
… it is quite the reverse. Take the idea of a landfill tax. When a charge has been placed on …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
… 'circular economy' package to reduce waste to landfill and increase recycling would get …
As the winners of the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards 2013 are unveiled, award founder Charlie Waite takes the opportunity to tell the Ecologist why he believes landscape photography and environmental passion go hand in hand.....
… different part of the brain to one of a vast landfill site or rainforest decimation. The …
The US's 'dash to frack' for oil or gas, which has transformed the country's energy market, is seriously depleting and contaminating aquifers and surface water supplies, writes Valerie Brown. The choice facing America is plain - energy, or water?
… can also transmit wastewater from ponds and landfills to surface and groundwater systems. …
Orcas from Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia are under threat,in large part due to toxic organic compounds in the marine food chain, writes Sierra Rayne. To give them a fighting chance, the nearby community of Victoria, British Columbia must install advanced sewage treatment - rather than just dump its wastewater largely untreated into the orcas' ocean home.
… of in a responsible manner (e.g., engineered landfill, incineration), a negligible quantity …
Apocalyptic floods have hit the Balkans, causing many deaths and billions of dollars of damage. 350.org campaigner Rastko Šejić from Obrenovac, Serbia, wrote this personal account of the floods - and how they have at least served to re-unite divided communities.
… than 1,000 hectares of dumped coal ashes and landfills. We have engineered nature for ages, …
As the UK Government's green policies come under sustained attack from Tory and UKIP right-wingers, Lib-Dem Leader Nick Clegg nails his green colours to the mast.
… We're reducing the amount of waste we send to landfill and we're investing in cleaning up …
A new species of eco-lawyer is emerging from the legal undergrowth. James Thornton advocates a wig-and-gown approach so campaigners can strengthen their case against unethical corporations
… make France close 8,000 illegal landfills or force EU fisheries ministers to …