Consumers are concerned about the environmental impact of meat - but reaching for fish as a 'lower emissions' alternative is an environmental catastrophe.
… Climate Crisis Environmental Damage Farmed SalmonSalmon Fish Stocks Vegetarianism And Veganism … and antibiotics. Lice that plague Scottish salmon farms are now thought to cause …
It’s 2008, and feeding ourselves has never been easier. We take for granted a supply of every agricultural commodity on the planet, 365 days a year. Food is cheap. Never in living memory have we spent less on it as a proportion of our total expenditure. Even our poorest citizens can afford the luxury foods of yesteryear, like salmon and chicken.
… afford the luxury foods of yesteryear, like salmon and chicken. Where our … food cargo from exotic countries; farmed salmon that owe their flabby weight to …
The ongoing battle between US tree-sitters and North America’s big logging firms pitches some of the world’s most determined activists against some of its most ruthless corporations. It is a battle that the tree-sitters simply must not lose.
… residents would be kept awake at night by salmon runs making their way up local creeks, … them upstream. Now it’s rare to see any salmon at all in the area. Activists and … Greece or, as today, spotted owls and coho salmon in America’s Pacific northwest and …
The winter Olympics at Sochi have trashed the National Park that contains Russia's richest biodiversity, writes Igor Chestin. Worse, the gutting of key environmental laws means that it can happen all over again, and again.
… endangered Black Sea population of Atlantic Salmon. Now, no more salmon come up the river due to pollution and …
The world is speaking up about the dark realities of the meat and dairy industries - why are fish being ignored?
… affect wild populations. The Scottish farmed salmon industry is highly wasteful, with … of the wild fish sourced to feed its salmon is also being wasted. Additionally, in …
The US Forest Service is developing a new armory of aggressive and often illegal tactics to push through loss-making timber sales, as it brands forest defenders as 'eco-terrorists'. Time to dig in for the trees - and the wolves.
… acres of temperate rainforest and pristine salmon habitat in the Mt. Hood National …
Forest communities are fighting increasing incursions onto their land by US oil companies. Now the Belizean government is seeking to reverse a court ruling preventing them allowing oil exploration, logging or mining. Robin Llewellyn reports from Belize
… INVESTIGATION How our growing appetite for salmon is devastating coastal communities in … to satisfy the West’s voracious appetite for salmon – marine life, human health and whole …
Food - and the land we grow it on - are much too important to be left to 'free' markets, writes Olivier De Schutter. And all the more so when those markets are not really free at all, but grossly distorted in favour of the rich.
… where they command more money as feed for the salmon and trout rich consumers will buy. …
Longer than England, almost as deep as the Grand Canyon, Russia's Lake Baikal is one of the world's greatest aquatic wonders, writes Bryce Stewart. But it's a fragile paradise: the limpid waters are warming much faster than the global average, with as yet unknown effects on its ecology. And it faces the danger of a huge dam on its principal tributary, Mongolia's Selenga River.
… migratorius , which is a member of the salmon family and another endemic species [3]. …
A fresh wave of logging is hitting America's national forests, writes Brett Haverstick. But this time it's all for the sake of 'forest health' and 'fire prevention'. It might look like industrial clear-cutting to you and me, but really, it's in a good cause. And if the forests and precious ecosystems they harbor just happen to perish in the process ... well ain't that just too bad?
… Joe River to the north, and the rapids of the Salmon River to the south, with the spine of …
Fear of traffic risks and ‘stranger danger’ are holding our children captive indoors. For the sake of their health and development, and for the environment they will one day need to protect, we have to find ways of getting them into the wild.
… of the quality of their habitats as wild salmon are of theirs, and deserved just as …