The Summer Camp held by The Resurgence Trust - publisher of The Ecologist - is taking place from 13 July 2018. Speakers will discuss our search for personal wellbeing - and also how to create a society that holds and helps each of its members reach their potential. GREG NEALE reports
… Last chance to get tickets for Resurgence summer camp - with £20 off for readers of The … 5th July 2018 Ethical Living Health Wellbeing Summer Camp greenandaway.jpg The Summer Camp held by The Resurgence Trust - …
With the coming of summer, South Korea's 'Boknal' dog-eating festival is under way, writes Anneka Svenska. Known for the extreme cruelty deliberately inflicted on dogs to improve the taste of their meat, Boknal is a barbaric relic rooted in ignorance and pseudo-medical superstition whose time is well and truly up.
… dog-elixir2-cut.jpg With the coming of summer, South Korea's 'Boknal' dog-eating … and protest last Friday against the Korean summer season of dog eating called 'Boknal'. I … Korean holiday marking the height of the summer growing season. It is traditionally the …
An exotic parasite is spreading through the world's honey bees and global warming is making it worse, writes Robert Paxton. A new study that shows it will soon be causing widespread colony collapse in North America and Europe.
… Bee crisis: warmer summers will help new parasite Robert Paxton | … in particular is a major risk, especially as summers become warmer. Bees are fairly used to … at least help us to understand why warmer summers may paradoxically lead to great …
Around 15 million Britons endure this three-season affliction. Pat Thomas looks at causes, treatments and drug-free tactics.
… | 2nd June 2008 Ethical Living Hayfever Summer Drug Free Allergies Food And Health … may think that the hayfever season ends when summer does, there are, in fact, several … spring, tree pollens can cause suffering. In summer, grass pollens bring misery to the …
Human beings in high-income countries are leading increasingly artificial lives divorced from the natural environment and without the important health benefits of sunshine. The result is chronic ill health of many kinds, warns Oliver Gillie
… us. For full health, it is important in summer to expose as much skin to the sun as … at home we would naturally get plenty of summer sun. In times gone by, when a sunny day … with a natural resistance to burning as the summer progressed and the sun became …
If you go down to the woods today (and stay at least until tomorrow) you're sure to come home feeling a whole lot better says Susan Clark, who recommends holing up in one of the UK's Forest Holidays' log cabins for a day or two ...
… to science, I am also ready to face down any summer bug thinking to pass my way this week. … of days before we head into what's left of summer. For our original report on the … Forest Holiday, check out the current special summer offer below: 20% off Forest Holidays …
From Nordic walking to tai chi, George Blacksell rounds up ten great ways to take your workout into the great outdoors
… your workout into the great outdoors With summer in full swing, spending time … that let you get fit and enjoy the late summer sunshine at the same time. Nordic … wild berries and traditional smoke saunas: summer at Lake Saimaa With its ultra-clean …
For 25 years, a group of eco-aware surfers have been campaigning for cleaner waves, writes Summer Brooks. SAS was founded in 1990 to tackle sewage discharges into UK coastal waters, and now, bigger and stronger than ever, they are turning their focus to the global problem of ocean plastic - both picking it up on our beaches, and pushing for long term, global solutions.
… Sewage turns its fight to ocean plastic Summer Brooks | 2nd September 2015 Activism … been campaigning for cleaner waves, writes Summer Brooks. SAS was founded in 1990 to … . See the Return to Offender campaign page. Summer Brooks is a journalism student living …
After four years of low rainfall Brazil's commercial capital, Sao Paulo, is suffering from a grim combination of high temperatures and water shortages, writes Leila Carvalho. And now the drought has given rise to a lethal plague of dengue fever.
… of its precipitation during the Austral summer, from October to March. Yet in the last … records of high temperatures during these summers have increased evapotranspiration , … will become less persistent in the next summer and increase the probability of extreme …
In week three of e-biking to work, a chance encounter with a fox leaves Susan Clark asking why we don't do more to stop habitat loss and protect our wildlife
… Rosie and relied on her to get to the best summer job I ever had. I would cycle a round … kinds of Devon lanes and past the same early summer burgeoning hedgerows. But with more of … me, I ride with a heavy burden. Earlier this summer, a 25-strong group of British wildlife …
6 ways to get fit in the park this summer and help the environment at the same time....
… 6 ways to get fit in the park this summer and help the environment at the same … and head to your local park to get fit this summer. If you fancy something a little more …
Short-haired bumblebee to be brought back from New Zealand and reintroduced into Kent
… of bumblebee will return to Britain next Summer after a decade-long absence. … at Dungeness in Kent in late Spring/early Summer, where volunteers and activists have …
Five years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster began to unfold, the searing psychological effects are still being felt among the 160,000 refugees who fled the fallout, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. But now there's growing pressure to return to contaminated areas declared 'safe' in efforts to whitewash the disaster's impacts. Why the rush? To clear the way for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, complete with events in Fukushima City.
… the rush? To clear the way for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, complete with events in … be center stage in the lead-up to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games to be hosted in Tokyo. … be center stage in the lead-up to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games to be hosted in Tokyo. …
The low-down on one of the best natural skin moisturisers and a guide to which products contain it
… long way, one pot will probably last you all summer. Derived from the nuts of the African … sorting the good from the bad GREEN LIVING Summer eco beauty round-up The Ecologist's top …
Israel's armed forces have destroyed vital water and sewage infrastructure in their bombing campaign of the besieged territory, writes Mohammed Omer. This constitutes a severe breach of the 1977 Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the part of Israel and all those conceiving, planning, ordering and perpetrating the attacks.
… increase the human suffering during the hot summer season." Article 54 of the 1977 … consumption of water in Gaza increases in summer, but power-cuts due to Israel's … Eye . "That's a luxury right now." Gaza's summer can be unbearably hot anyway, where …
More than 25 million Americans live within an 'oil train blast zone', writes Ralph Nader. But as volumes of tar sands and shale oil carried by train soar, the oil cars identified as a 'substantial danger to life, property, and the environment' in 1991 remain in use. We must ban those dangerous railcars - and put an end to all 'extreme oil'.
… stadiums. 25 million Americans at risk Last summer, environmental watchdog group … it deserves, but not yet the response. Last summer, the US federal government began the …
A new study on the spread of bovine TB shows that only with more frequent testing of cattle will the disease be defeated in England, writes Oliver Tickell. It has already worked in Scotland, and is on the way to doing in Wales - where some herds are tested every six months.
… as total tests on herds are lowest during summer months, when cattle are out in the … infection it is logical to test cattle during summer months." Indeed it appears rather …
China's smog is an increasing cause of public discontent, writes Oliver Wild - and no wonder! New research shows that the country's air pollution is killing over a million people every year. Thanks to China's geography the problem is hard to solve, but the rapid rise of renewables and the slow demise of coal do offer the promise of cleaner, healthier future.
… as the preferred means of keeping cool in summer. At the turn of the century Beijing had … strict air pollution controls during the summer Olympics in 2008, for the APEC forum …
Fresh, convenient, versatile or overpriced leaves soaked in pesticides and produced by slave labour?
… of salad. Time was when we ate lettuces in summer and, following our northern European … not meet demand. This is what happened in the summer of 2003. The exceptionally hot weather …
Enzyme Potentiated Desensitisation is a groundbreaking treatment for allergy sufferers. But the recent closure of a firm championing EPD leaves its future in doubt. Drug companies and mainstream doctors are unlikely to be mourning, says Charlotte Davis
… As I lay on my back, looking up at a warm summer sky, I could hear the bees buzzing in …
The Badger Trust will challenge the trial badger culls in the High Court next month, claiming that Environment Secretary Liz Truss and Natural England are acting unlawfully in failing to appoint an expert panel to oversee the experiment.
… culling in Gloucestershire and Somerset this summer, without any independent assessment of …
Thousands of wounded Gazans are awaiting medical treatment, writes Veronica Vickery, with many of Gaza's hospitals damaged or destroyed. Meanwhile a health crisis looms with the coming winter, amid a failing water and sewage system. One way the UK can help: send our hospital ship RFA Argus to provide essential medical aid.
… disgraced as we continue to enjoy the late summer sunshine, with barely a thought for the …
Despite being used to treat diabetes and infections, knowledge of Alaska's wild berries is in danger of being lost as young indigenous people embrace western lifestyles. Jessica Wapner reports
… with wild berries during the brief but potent summer. For centuries, berry picking has been …