Greenpeace says responsibility of aluminum company is 'quite clear' as campaigners urge stricter controls on other hazardous waste sites around the Danube region
… urge stricter controls on other hazardous waste sites around the Danube region A toxic spill of mining waste from an industrial plant in Hungary is … sludge, a mixture of water and mining waste including toxic heavy metals like lead, …
Leading jewellery outlets including Fraser Hart, Tiffany & Co and Beaverbrooks say they won't use gold from London-based Anglo America's proposed mine in the Alaskan wilderness
… up to 10 billion tonnes of contaminated mine waste. The tailings lakes (made up of waste rubble and fluids) alone would bury two …
With Papua New Guinea giving the go-ahead to a Canadian mining company to dredge its coastal seabed for minerals, new species of life could be extinct before they have even been discovered. Tom Levitt reports
… of the risks associated with sediment and waste rock disposal. He also cites the effects … are the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste that will be produced by the mining … run through the economy, and discarded in waste dumps. It is a unidirectional waste of …
Tom Levitt speaks to one of China's most respected investigative journalists Liu Jianqiang on the rise of environmental activism in China
… mining, poaching and the dumping of nuclear waste. And it is impacting on all of us NEWS … of 300,000 people NEWS Low-cost e-waste recycling in China releasing catalogue of pollutants The world's growing waste mountain of mobile phones, computers and …
Former environment minister Michael Meacher on the place of humanity in the universe, intelligent design, the survival of the human race, Gaia theory and uncertainties over climate change
… they have to have neurotoxins in them?' The waste warrior behind the You Tube hit and now … making manufacturers responsible for waste and shifting our values INTERVIEW Paul …
In the first of our new fortnightly series getting the low-down from leading campaigners, we interview Margaret Mar, a victim of organophosphate (OP) poisoning, who has dedicated most of her life as a peer to campaigning on behalf of other victims
… energy for something that you can do. Don't waste your energy on a battle that you cannot …
Campaigners and MEPs say legal challenges by hunters and seal traders will not succeed to overturning the new EU wide ban on the trade in seal products
… fish farmers are starting to look at fish waste as an untapped resource …
Recent abductions and threats against activists trying to prevent logging in South-East Asia are part of a worrying trend of violence against those exposing environmental issues
… blogger, exposed the dumping of untreated waste water into Lake Manzala during 2008. He …
Deutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev is heading up the groundbreaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) report and doing for nature what Sir Nicholas Stern did for climate change - valuing it
Pavan Sukhdev: you can have progress without GDP-led growth Tom Levitt | 22nd January 2010 Comment Economic Growth Biodiversity Deforestation Nature Natural World Politics And Economics …
Theologian Martin Palmer tells Tom Levitt how we can learn from previous man-made ecological collapses in Britain and create a 'new narrative' that challenges our dominant consumer culture
… God is going to be, 'Well that was a complete waste of time, wasn't it?', because we've seen … of the city is now agricultural, well is now wasteland, or agricultural land. That land is …