Campaigner GD Agarwal was living on water mixed with lemon and honey for months in protest at the government’s failure to clean holy river.
… Ganges river pollution hunger striker dies Catherine … | 2nd November 2018 News India Pollution River Activism polluted_ganges.jpg Campaigner … at the government’s failure to clean holy river. “You have only thought of earning …
Tests of rivers and canals in ten European countries, including the UK, revealed more than 100 pesticides, a quarter of which are banned in the EU.
… Europe’s rivers riddled with pesticides Catherine Early … | 23rd April 2019 News Pesticides Farming Rivers Wildlife Pollution Europe UK rivers: among those found to be polluted with …
How fossil fuels are destroying biodiversity and Indigenous people’s rights.
… it cannot regenerate itself. There are many drivers to deforestation in the Amazon - we can … They are located close to the Athabasca River - one of Canada’s major rivers that flows through Alberta and the …
Campaigners have welcomed chancellor Philip Hammond’s call for ideas on financial carrots and sticks to drastically cut single-use plastics in his spring statement. However, they stressed the need for more rapid action, reports CATHERINE EARLY
… the University of Manchester found that UK rivers are heavily contaminated with broken down plastic debris. They examined river sediments from 40 sites across Greater … rural streams in the hills and urban rivers in the city centre. Microplastic …
Ideas to protect the UK’s natural resources and reduce waste and pollution have been published in the government’s long-awaited 25-year plan. But campaigners fear the proposals are not strong enough, CATHERINE EARLY reports
… dumping toxic chemicals, untreated, into rivers was ever the right thing to do. “In …
The UK urgently needs to increase tree cover to mitigate climate change and boost wildlife. The government is asking the public for views on its plans.
… For example, new woodlands on either side of rivers and streams would provide corridors …
The Wildlife Trusts is urging developers to build homes that simultaneously give people an inspirational place to live and help reverse wildlife and habitat decline, reports CATHERINE EARLY
… such as natural floodwater storage in river, it said. But it believes that this is …
Campaign groups have welcomed the government’s promise of an environment bill, but have stressed the need for speed as data shows continuing decline in UK biodiversity. CATHERINE EARLY reports
… is increasingly bereft of wildlife, our rivers polluted, there is more and …
Bee-killing insecticides will face a near total ban in Europe following a vote by member states in favour of proposals by the European Commission. The UK government supported the ban, which it says it will maintain after Brexit. CATHERINE EARLY reports
… to be banned, found that half of rivers and lakes monitored in England were …
New study claims to be the most comprehensive global assessment to date of the threats posed to indigenous peoples’ lands by industrial development.
… million km2. Renewable energy is a dominant driver of development pressure, particularly in … with 14 communities around the Marañon river, which flows into the Amazon, which is …