Or Myanmar, depending on which side of the military regime you find yourself. If like the companies below you support the regime, enjoy your visit to Myanmar. If not, please boycott Burma.
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After years of failing to make its modified products do its bidding, the biotech industry is changing tack – now its modifying the protestors. Jonathan Matthews reports from South Africa
… America, India, Australia and Israel. In the UK The Times ran a commentary entitled ‘I do … perpetuate poverty and hunger’. A powerful rebuke, no doubt. But if anyone deserves the cow …
Measure for measure, GDP is the world’s hidden accounting scandal, the one that neither governments nor media will touch. Jonathan Rowe asks why we worship such a false idol
… better off. Or do we? Another study, from the UK, found that shopping, which is the driving …
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis.
… profits made from the property boom in the UK to buy here. You can let it out when you … supplies all-year-round vegetables for UK supermarkets. The supermarkets claim they … They are grown in Spain exclusively for the UK. The Spanish haven’t a clue what a parsnip …
Russia’s zapovedniks are some of the world’s most pristine wildernesses. For 70 years they were protected ruthlessly by the Soviet system, but recently they have fallen prey to Putin, the World Bank and ecotourists. Paul Webster reports on their plight
The Wild Wild East: Russia's Zapovedniks Paul Webster | 1st February 2003 News Russia Wilderness World Bank Ecotourism International Development International Development Consumerism World Bank …
Twice as expensive as petrol, three times the price of milk, and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Is it worth it, and what impact is it having on our environment?
Bottled Water The Ecologist | 1st February 2003 News Water Nestle Perrier Danone Tap Water International Trade Water Conservation Clean Water Fresh Water Water Supplies Water Sources Plastics …
The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the industry’s by-products have permeated our lives.
… to lose in Iraq. In 1997 Russian oil giant Lukoil signed a contract with Saddam to develop … partnership’ in which Russian oil giants Lukoil and Yukos would directly deliver their Siberian oil …
Janine Roberts describes how De Beers cons the world into paying so much for its cheap, plentiful diamonds and turns a blind eye to the eradication of the oldest culture on the planet.
… the war. US intelligence discovers that UK government employees with close links to De …
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’
… plastic-like state they are flown into the UK from all round the world. When the miles … North America and Japan. • Reasons why UK consumers buy cut flowers: 43 per cent – … • Over 9 million red roses are given in the UK and over 50 million roses worldwide each …
Richard Ellis celebrates the beauty of one of nature’s most miraculous, and least appreciated creatures – the bluefin tuna.
The magnificent bluefin tuna Richard Ellis | 1st October 2003 News Bluefin Tuna Tuna Fisheries Fish Sushi Restaurants Endangered Species Oceans Marine Life Whales Pacific Ocean Tokyo Fishing Industry …