Chinese mitten crabs are pushing indigenous species out of UK rivers and damaging river banks and habitats. It's time to look at how we could control them, and maybe find a new seafood delicacy to boot
… How to protect UK rivers from invasive mitten crabs, and eat … Food And Farming Natural World Mitten Crab Rivers Ecology … are pushing indigenous species out of UK rivers and damaging river banks and habitats. …
Jeffrey St.Clair investigates the shooting of wolves on the boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park, and discovers a toxic mix of politics, blood lust and wilful abandonment of the rule of law.
… my stomach on a small knoll above the Lamar River, peering through my field glasses toward … the cottonwoods, to the decaying body by the river. Even the ravens, those caustic critics … wolves, followed casually, waded into the river, lapped water and then began to feed on …
In the battle to save America's real wild west of unlogged forests, grizzly bears, mountain goats, Bull trout, free flowing streams and roadless wilderness, a single person stands out, writes Jeffrey St Clair, for her dedication, courage and remarkable success: Arlene Montgomery of Friends of the Wild Swan, Montana.
… indeed. While doing surveys on the Flathead River, the fish biologists recorded a sobering … southern Oregon, and Oregon to the Jarbridge River in Nevada. In other words, almost all of … One biologist called it the grizzly of the rivers. It's also wide-ranging, with some bull …
When Mike Roselle tried to give his State Governor a sample of Mountain Top Removal dust for analysis, he was not expecting to be arrested at gunpoint and banged in jail for a week on suicide watch - all without charge.
… onto the ground and into the nearby Elk River and downstream directly into American … to stem the flow of the chemical into the Elk River. In that time, more than 125 people were … the spill that had fouled the Elk and Kanawa Rivers had absolutely nothing to do with the …
Fighting a mine funded by foreign investment in Gabon has seen Marc Ona Essangui spend time in prison, but his only response, he says, is 'serenity'
… as well as a hydroelectric dam on the Ivindo river near the scenic Kangou Falls, and a … is still earmarked for a stretch of the river close to the Kangou Falls, which Marc …
For sheer guts, vision and results, a single organisation stands out among the US's environmental defenders - the Alliance for the Wild Rockies. Jeffrey St. Clair met its leader, Mike Garrity, winner of 2014's Grassroots Activist Award.
… American wilderness in the lower 48: wild rivers and rugged mountain ranges, ancient … meantime, many of those forests, ranges and rivers are under immediate threat from …
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
… the first to go. The A44 bypass, a car-filled river glittering in the distance, put paid to … 200 acres, including woodland, grassland and riverside meadows. The orchards are the poster …
More sites may be added to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in Danger this week, but how effective is this register of global hot spots, and what are the areas that truly deserve international protection?
… by government plans to build a dam on the river Gambia at Mako, a few kilometres …
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic
… 40,000 hectares of farmland along the Tana River Delta – was a done deal, but the scheme …
The mountaineers who come to conquer Everest mistake their achievement – in the quest to overcome nature’s ultimate natural obstacle, humans have already won
… on the Ganges, Indus, Yangtze and Yellow, rivers whose sources are found among the …
Eifion Rees talks to the Compassion in World Farming veteran and co-editor of The Meat Crisis - a shocking new book that exposes the range of environmental and health threats facing us if we don't kick our addiction to meat
… question. Drought somewhere may be caused by river water being used for crop irrigation …