Are zoos an essential tool for preserving biodiversity in the 21st century or a Noah's-Ark-style anachronism riddled with woodworm and sinking fast?
… onto a PhD in Animal Behaviour at Aberystwyth University. Also interested in the business … zoos and in 1996 obtained an MBA at Edinburgh University. Presently a member of the Zoos …
How the Bush regime is planning to use nuclear powered spacecraft and weapons to secure US control of outer space.
… professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, says: ‘NASA hasn’t … professor emeritus of medical physics at the University of California at Berkeley, linked … professor of journalism at the State University of New York College at Old …
The Channel 4 documentary, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, put forward the idea that carbon dioxide did not in fact cause global warming, but instead was a product of global warming. It also suggested that the Earth frequently enters cold and warm periods of climate, and that the current warming was simply a natural phenomenon. We put these arguments to Stephan Harrison, an Associate Professor in Quarternary Science at Exeter University and a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University…
… Professor in Quarternary Science at Exeter University and a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University… The basis for our understanding …
For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In 1998 Monsanto took Schmeiser to court.
… and I had seeds from each of them sent to the University of Manitoba to see how much of my pure seed was contaminated. The university’s scientists found that half of my … crops? Right. Scientists at the University of Manitoba sought to establish the …
I’m sitting opposite the large Coca-Cola bottling plant next to the village of Plachimada in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Plachimada is a farming village of about 800 families, many of them tribal. The ugly factory looks rather out of place in such a beautiful setting, the Western Ghats mountains clearly visible in the distance.
… this ‘fertiliser’ to a laboratory at Exeter University. Tests conducted at the lab … a PhD in political philosophy at Oxford University . For more information about the …
Britain has fallen out of love with conventional politics. Could Swiss-style direct democracy end the current crisis of political legitimacy?
Direct democracy Douglas Smith | 8th July 2004 News Swiss Democracy UK Government Parliament Polit EU Politics And Economics Archive_11.jpg Britain has fallen out of love with conventional politics. …
It takes no more than a gentle nudge to push a man over the edge of a cliff, but it is almost impossible to haul him back before he hits the ground. Given that we show no sign of putting a stop to global warming, Peter Bunyard takes a look at what the future might hold
… head of the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, the three months of …
Costing £2.9 billion, the UK’s new police communication system Tetra has been described by one independent scientist as likely to cause ‘more civilian deaths than all the world’s terrorist organisations put together’
… professor of environmental health at Lincoln University, died from it, convinced he had … UK Cell Transformation Research Group at the University of Dundee, who submitted a formal …
She entwined my whole arm in her trunk, held it there as she breathed deeply several times, and then put the tip of her trunk in her mouth and sighed. I came a little closer and let her explore my face and neck freely until I could hear a soft growl of pure delight: the elephant equivalent of purring.
… acoustic biologists from New York's Cornell University and the equipment necessary to …
The biggest and most indiscriminate killers of wildlife on the planet, commercial fishing fleets have brought us to the edge of a maritime ecological disaster, with fish stocks facing extinction all around the world.
… but by Daniel Pauly and Reg Watson of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. …
During the past decade or so, international trade agreements have been dramatically expanded to encompass affairs that had always previously been strictly matters of domestic concern.
A thirst for control: water privatisation The Ecologist | 1st March 2004 News Water Privatisation Water Bills Public Health Privatisation Privatisation Politics And Economics Society Archive_25.jpg …
Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. Now he is taking Unocal, one of the US companies that trades with the murderous regime, to court. One of the most wanted men in Burma, talks to The Ecologist.
Tortured Soul Jeremy Smith | 8th July 2004 News Military Burma Unocal ATCA Pipeline Slaves L Oil Boycotts US Human Rights Military Politics And Economics Society Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his …
from the pulpit
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory…
I'm the Reverend Billy.
Reverend Billy Bill Talen | 1st December 2004 Comment Consumerism Fundamentalism Advertising Products Consumerism Politics And Economics Society from the pulpit We interrupt our regular programming …
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
Are you too well behaved Diane Wilson | 1st October 2004 News EPA Shrimp Boats Fisherman Industrial Pollution Plastic Formosa Texas Industrial Pollution Companies Fishing Crisis Industrial Plastics …
In 1993 Tory MP David Willetts wrote a pamphlet called The Opportunities for Private Funding in the NHS, which proposed using Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) and other commercial mechanisms to provide health services in the UK. Conservative ministers thought Willetts’s proposals too radical. They were consigned to the shelf until 1997, when the New Labour Government put them into action.
… Two months previously, KP had paid $1m to a university also in California to finance …
Within two years, Britain could be facing a series of blackouts and the ignomony of importing the resource it once considered so plentiful from a host of politically unstable countries.
… advisor Professor Ian Fells of Newcastle University and principal author of a …
Lying on tilted beds of glistening ice, fish from around the world gaze unblinkingly at bored supermarket shoppers. Red snappers, ‘air freighted for freshness’ from the Indian Ocean; Chilean seabass ‘previously frozen’ from the Southern Atlantic; Farmed salmon from the Isles of Scotland; exotic, seemingly abundant fresh fish.
… toxic algal blooms. Researchers based at the University of Albany, New York, warned against …
Barbara Streisand prides herself on being a movie star with an environmental conscience. So why did she take one man to court over his efforts to protect the California coastline?
… coast. He’s more excited, however, about a University of California professor’s recent …
Should our drinking water be fluoridated? Dr Paul Connett Professor Liz Kay | 1st December 2004 Comment MRC Fluoridation Dentist Tooth Decay Water F Flouridation Health blogs&comments.jpg Dr Paul …
Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label.
… muscles are common. A study in 1992 by the University of Bristol found detectable …
Are you a ‘premium loyal’, a ‘loyal low spender’, a ‘can’t stay away’… or don’t you care? Tesco does, and uses the data collected from your loyalty card to dictate what you buy, when you buy and how much you buy.
… town. When you leave school you could go to university and study one of the many courses …