Undercover filming by the UK investigative agency Ecostorm has exposed - for the first time - the brutal hunting and killing of dolphins for use as shark bait off Peru's Pacific coast. Jim Wickens reports
… desert coastline cascades into the cold waters of the Pacific ocean; nutrient-laden … from across the Pacific to feed in these rich waters. These waters produce 10% of the world's fish catch, …
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 … Kepu community, as well as the coastal waters and the seabed up to 12 km offshore, to …
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods.
… hollow ring. They believe the polluted water is responsible for a host of serious … Lots more bad things happen if you touch this water,’ says Yusuf Ali, a butcher from … after falling into ditches of the polluted water. Downstream from the tannery outflow …
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods.
… hollow ring. They believe the polluted water is responsible for a host of serious … Lots more bad things happen if you touch this water,’ says Yusuf Ali, a butcher from … after falling into ditches of the polluted water. Downstream from the tannery outflow …
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...
… out of the scrubby desert and grown on eye-wateringly large scales. It is also home to … of flies, nasty biting flies, clogging the water coolers and forcing the teachers to hang … of the school. Then nitrates in the water showed up. The school had always used …
The coast of Peru is being blighted by a fishmeal industry that's sprung up to satisfy the West’s voracious appetite for salmon – now marine life, human health and whole ecosystems are paying the price. Andrew Wasley and Jim Wickens report
… of meal and oil are situated in European waters and in the Pacific bordering Peru and … is not sustainable. Peru’s Pacific waters contain a vital fishery and one of the … costal shelves and force nutrient-rich cool water to the surface. The nutrients support …
Earthquakes and poisoned wells are setting off a revolt against fracking in Romania, revealing deep fault lines between the rural heartlands and the urban political elite. Jim Wickens & Paraic O'Brien report on a country at war with itself.
… from the USA. Graphic images of burning water faucets and headline-grabbing studies linking fracking to potential water pollution and farm animal ill-health, … 2 million of whom still rely upon clean water, air and soil to sustain their …
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 …
The birthplace of Aristotle is being laid waste by a vast mining project, opening a rift in a cash-strapped society
… it offers jobs and investment in a rural backwater beset by unemployment and starved of … believe this gold investment will destroy our water, the air we breathe." He is not alone. … fault line, on a mountain that supplies water to thousands below, opening up the …
The buzz around the hydrogen economy is shifting up a gear. But is hydrogen the spearhead technology in a green transition, or an elaborate bait-and-switch orchestrated by Big Oil and Gas?
… from renewable electricity passed through water to split it into hydrogen and oxygen. … the International Energy Agency ), its freshwater requirements will exceed one quarter of today’s global annual consumption, causing water stress in some regions. Above all, green …
The great acceleration - in GDP, population, cities, travel, deforestation, pollution - is on some metrics stuttering. What does this mean for a just transition?
… and tourism, the consumption of energy, water, paper, cars, and fish, deforestation … rivers left to dam” — or oil to burn, groundwater to pump, forests to fell, fish to catch. …
Karl Marx was born in Trier 200 years ago today. The legacy of the political economist is fiercely contested. The Ecologist was among the first magazines to examine his ecological thinking - in an essay published in 1971. Here, GARETH DALE, an editor of the book Green Growth, examines Marx's own claims about nature and society - and our original interpretation of them
… have been made into property: the fish in the water, the birds in the air, the plants on the … too “must become free”. Now the fish in the water are vanishing. So too the birds in the …
The first in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from the podcast Political Economy for the End Times.
… failures’, with problems of drought and water provision. In the recent drought in … was able to contain it there by bringing in water by the trainload. But what if state …
The facts of climate breakdown are scientifically established - so don't get lost in BBC Radio Four's latest Moral Maze.
… of the atmosphere, most of which consists of water vapour.” If this were so, quips Monbiot … act if you insist that air consists mostly of water vapour and that he therefore survives. …
Special Investigation: It’s not ‘Jet Zero.’ It’s not even net zero. It’s plane insanity - and we’re heading for a hard landing.
… food insecurity, deforestation, peat burning, water shortages, and biodiversity loss. One … representative told us, much consists of water, and recyclable substances such as …
'Jet zero' is basically just pie in the sky - according to a powerful new report published today by the Royal Society.
… food insecurity, deforestation, peat burning, water shortages, and biodiversity loss. One … representative told us, much consists of water, and recyclable substances such as …
The extreme heat of the upcoming El Niño years should compel us to subordinate profit motives to urgent climate goals. This article first appeared at Truthout.
… frog.” When pushed into a pot of boiling water, a frog immediately senses mortal peril … apocryphal frog immersed in gradually heating water, however, will fail to notice. She …
Burmese migrants working onboard Thai fishing boats suffer brutal exploitation. And the boats involved supply so-called 'trash fish' for use in feed given to farmed prawns exported globally. The Ecologist Film Unit's Jim Wickens reports
… the fleets routinely fish illegally in the waters of other countries, most commonly in …