A Pacific island paradise 340 miles from Costa Rica's coast should be the ideal place for marine conservation, write Julia Baum & Easton R. White. But while its waters are indeed teeming with life, steep population declines in key shark and ray species show that stronger protection is badly needed.
… best place in the world to swim with large schools of hammerhead sharks. Giant manta …
Receiving the Global Environment Citizen Award in December, US television journalist Bill Moyers warned of the threat posed to the planet by America’s religious right. This is an abridged version of his speech
… will provide. One of their texts is the high school history book America’s Providential … Citizen Award is presented by Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global …
Hayek achieved his dream of becoming a university academic - but could he really challenge the intellectual prowess and political influence of the master John Maynard Keynes? BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… who dominated both Cambridge and the London School of Economics (LSE) were not going to …
Nuclear power is neither beautiful, nor safe, nor cheap, writes Justin Keating - a message to the United States, where the Obama administration has pledged to waste over $200 million financing the 'Small Modular Reactor' (SMR).
… for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School, has published a paper titled, The …
Fracking has no social licence in the UK, will contribute little to the economy, will have a huge adverse impact on other sectors, will be a disaster to climate and the environment, and won't even improve energy security, write Peter Strachan and Alex Russell. Do we really want to see 16,000 or more shale gas wells drilled in the British countryside? Let's FraXit now!
… people's homes, their places of work, and the schools that their children attend. Stress … used in fracking. Undertaken by the Yale School of Public Health and published in the …
'No deforestation' pledges by global food corporations are yielding results, writes William Laurance. But now the Indonesian and Malaysian governments are calling on them to abandon their promises - even as the region's rainforests go up in smoke, cleared for new oil palm plantations. The companies must hold firm to their commitments.
… those produced by the entire United States Schools and airports have been repeatedly …
It has been an epic battle, writes Aisha Dodwell. Monsanto and other corporations are desperate to get the world's number one herbicide, glyphosate, relicenced in the EU. But their network of power has been challenged by doctors, scientists and a global movement of people. With today's postponement of the EU's decision, we have just scored a major victory.
… everywhere from our gardens, local parks and school playgrounds to our food, clothes and …
Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout, writes Justin Wedes. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help!
… side-by-side with local leaders to build schools and hospitals. UN Human Rights … Turn abandoned lots into urban farms. Rebuild schools. End payday lending and expand crowd … . He founded the Paul Robeson Freedom School . In his (fleeting) spare time, Justin …
How do you get your GM crops and herbicides into countries that don't want and can't afford them? Simple - you just wait for a crisis, and offer a helping hand...
… private and public elementary and secondary schools, organizations that serve youth, …
Those caught up in nuclear disasters suffer many times over, writes Robert Jacobs. Ill-health and early death aside, they are also cut off from their former communities, identities and family life, and the victims of social and medical discrimination.
… extended families are often separated, and schools are closed. People who have lived in … the victims of bullying at their new schools. Cars with Fukushima license plates …
Information about information, ideas without place, facts without action… It’s time we got off the net, into the world and with the programme, says Michael Bugeja
… Bugeja is the director of the Greenlee School of Journalism, Iowa State University …
The lesson of fracking in the US and Canada is a simple one, writes Naomi Klein. The fracking industry is vicious, brutal and will stop at nothing to get its way. British anti-frackers can celebrate yesterday's achievements - but the fight ahead will not be an easy one.
… come after your homes, your churches, your schools, your parks, your university campuses, … come after your homes, your churches, your schools, your parks, your university campuses, …
The renowned primatologist and conservationist on the need for scientific empathy, the impact of economic development, and why children give her hope for the future
… Shoots (for young people of all ages from pre-school through college) is about giving people …
A new report by Co-operatives UK and The Co-operative Group examines those investing time and money in installing solar panels, wind turbines or hydro-electric power for their local communities
… to install solar panels on a local primary school in Nayland, Suffolk. Overall, …
Australia's Labor scored a big win in Victoria's election this weekend - and with the party's 'green' policies that's potentially good news for the state's exploited forests. Now's the time to keep campaigning for the early creation of a Great Forest National Park.
… Long Term Ecological Research Network; Fenner School of Environment and Society at … David Lindenmayer is Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society at …
Film maker Nick Breeze has conducted a series of interviews with experts on 'geo-engineering' to forestall runaway global warming. Here he presents the distilled wisdom from his meetings - and concludes that we should at least be experimenting with the techniques, and studying their impacts.
… volcanologist at the University of Bristol's School of Environmental Sciences, stated in …
Accelerated industrial growth in a neoliberal economy has had a profound impact on the local people of Gladstone, Australia. Read Part II of Professor THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN exploration.
… collect their children early from a primary school near the alumina refinery because of white dust blowing into the schoolyard. Fishing and crabbing in the … collect their children early from a primary school near the alumina refinery because of …
Nigel Farage's media triumph last night highlights Ofcom's decision that UKIP is a 'major political party' in the Euro-Elections. But Ofcom's view, argue Matt Hawkins & Clare Phipps, rests on the myth that the media reflect, rather than influence, public opinion.
… a the type of person that dislikes Public School stock-brokers turned politicians …
Creating cash should not be the responsibility of the private banking system, but of the common wealth. Let’s get mutual, urge Molly Scott Cato and Martin Large
… is a reader in green economics at the Cardiff School of Management . This article first …