Forty years ago this month F.N. Steele wrote about Britain’s water shortage and about the importance of addressing its causes immediately
… The Ecologist July 1971: Britain’s water shortage Henry Gass | 1st July 2011 Other Ecologist F.N. Steele Water Archive 40 Years Ago Shortage Drought Britain Waterwise Environment Agency Irrigation …
The Marsh sow-thistle, officially extinct in London, is having a revival after being reintroduced to the Thames Road wetland site and nurtured back to strength.
… Karen Sutton, site manager at nearby Thames Water site, Crossness Nature Reserve, had … Green Party but volunteer site manager for waterways charity Thames 21 in his spare time, … shoulder – flowed through the vegetation like water, alerting Karen and myself to small …
Grandmother Earth - Thirteen matriarchs from indigenous cultures are currently touring the world, promoting peace, unity and a respect for nature. nicola Graydon meets one of them, Mona Polacca
… our resources are: to know where our sacred water is; to know how to build our sacred … ‘We all brought our prayer bundles, our water, earth and ash from our fires. Then the … lobbying on behalf of local issues concerning water, land and human rights. Mona answered …
Andrew Mitchell highlights why we must recognise the true value of what our tropical rainforests provide for free.
… sunlight to create tiny nuclei around which water droplets form, from moisture drawn in … of the Guianas, the Amazon’s trees recycle water many times, cooling the land’s surface. … as snow, feeding the eastern slopes with water that benefits Quechua farmers and fills …
It swam the oceans when dinosaurs walked the earth. Now our hunger for tuna means the Pacific leatherback turtle could be extinct within 10 years.
… are conducted in relatively shallow high-seas water. The proliferation of longlines since … two million square miles of territorial waters around Hawaii to swordfish longliners … in the ruling by relocating to Californian waters, STRP and Earthjustice responded with …
Vandana Shiva reminds us that the very future of food security in India (and indeed worldwide) lies in protecting and promoting the country's small farmers.
… corporations to meet our needs for food and water. Giant corporations have grown bigger, … the seed supply, the food supply and the water supply. The reality is that “small is … Small is the nature of the food web and the water cycle. For both food and water, small …
Forty years ago this month, Robert Allen wrote about the ‘European Con Year’ - the year environmental conservation practices were bleak
… and Wales are failing European targets for water quality, it seems we are still trying to … recently released their ‘Blueprint for Water' urging the government to remove the statutory limit on water pollution fines by 2012, and for fines …
A behind-the-scenes look at the British supermodel's shoot for SodaStream's 'World Without Bottles' campaign
… bottle requires five times its own volume in water to manufacture – a horrifying amount, … particularly given the pressure on global water supplies. While SodaStream isn't the … bottles all together, whether by taking a water bottle (or a recycling a plastic one …
Thirty years ago this month, the Ecologist dedicated an edition to exposing the effects of pesticides on our health and the environment
… pollutants such as PCBs, because of their water insolubility, tend to accumulate in the … For example low levels of a pesticides in water may contaminate plankton, whose fatty … levels of the pesticide than exist in the water environment. The pesticide would …
A simple agricultural technique could release farmers from the grip of agrochemical corporations. With no patents, no royalties and no licensing fees, this system just benefits the farmers.
… of seed needed by 90%, and use up to 50% less water than current methods of cultivation. … must be practised differently. Land and water resources are becoming scarcer, of … reduces seed needed by 90% and use 50% less water …
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline
… nets in the estuaries and shallow coastal waters of this region of Northern Java. But … all around them. Puddles of stagnant water surround the crumbling brick homes and …
The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights
… backdrop, however, the constant convoys of water trucks rumbling along the deserted … as Halliburton, high-volume horizontal slickwater fracturing – otherwise known as … that are then injected with large volumes of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure to …
With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business...
… backdrop, however, the constant convoys of water trucks rumbling along the deserted … as Halliburton, high-volume horizontal slickwater fracturing – otherwise known as … that are then injected with large volumes of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure to …
Forty years ago this month, Professor Henry A. Schroeder wrote Trace Elements in the Environment, about the dangers of toxic metals in the air, food and water that humans expose themselves to
… dangers of toxic metals in the air, food and water that humans expose themselves to In … that fewer elements gain entry into the air, water and the food that we eat. Today, the …
To feed the world we must abandon not just GMOs but all diversity-destroying selective crop breeding, organic farmer John Letts told Oliver Tickell. Only by using biodiverse local seed mixtures that evolve in the field can food production adapt to climate change without ever-increasing chemical inputs, and meet human needs for wholesome nourishment.
… and can't reach down into the subsoil for water and nutrients. "Because they are … until the new fashion for thatching with water reed instead of wheat straw. And this … using wheat straw rather than the imported water reed. However, for thatching you …
Susan Clark introduces the art of botanical cooking....
… for tired or irritated skin A homemade rose water is soothing for the skin, especially … and moisturisers. To make your own rose water, simply infuse 100g of rose petals with 300ml of boiling water. Leave to cool for 15 minutes. Drain. …
Does it annoy you that the earth is being destroyed to benefit a tiny minority? Enough to do something about it? Derrick Jensen invites you to join him on the barricades
… is the real source of life? Of food, air, water? Is it the economic system? Of course … on natural resources such as wood, fish, water and fossil fuels, as they would harm the … battle against corporate theft of the world’s water Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke (Earthscan, …
While governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. Mara Hvistendahl reports from the United Nations.
… As these changes challenge global water and food security, the global south will … crises, from improving agriculture to making water desalination more affordable. But one of …
Welcome to the all-women producers’ collective in the Indian Himalayas.
… by promoting renewable energy, forestry and water conservation. In the hills where … natural springs that provide drinking water by desilting them regularly. Grassroots …
EJF’s ‘No Place Like Home’ film is part of their campaign arguing the case of people affected by climate change, who without international help and new binding agreements on assistance, will have no where to go and no means to survive...
… , EJF’s advert 'No Place Like Home: Rising Waters' will be screened before feature films … indigenous peoples and threatening the freshwater ecosystem of catfish and piranha found …
Thrupp lake in Radley, Oxfordshire, is one of the county's prime wildlife havens. It is slated to be filled with a toxic blend of pulverised fuel ash from nPower's nearby Didcot power station. In our exclusive podcast, we talk to the local community, campaigners, ecologists, the press and nPower themselves to uncover some very murky waters...
… nPower themselves to uncover some very murky waters... …
Watch the trailer for the Oscar-nominated film documenting how Chinese villagers challenged a powerful chemical company over pesticides and dye-factory pollution
… company that is poisoning their land and water. For five years they fight to transform …