'Alarming decline' in England's biodiversity
Europe should forget about emissions cuts, say policy experts
Councils' 'just throw it out' advice on toxic lightbulbs
EU exporting 'one-third' of CO2 emissions to poorer countries
Ancient tradition of water purification could save lives
How a 22-year-old student uncovered peak oil fraud
Tom Levitt10th March, 2010
Lionel Badal was working on his undergraduate dissertation when he suddenly found himself privy to information that he knew must be made publicRead More...Shipbreaking: clampdown in Asia will send it to Africa
Ecologist2nd March, 2010
Following our exclusive investigation, Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the tradeRead More...UK wildlife becoming the ‘living dead’
Laura Edgecumbe-Ansdell and Tom Levitt25th February, 2010
While the UN is celebrating the international year of biodiversity conservation groups in the UK worry that a rising number of isolated populations are in danger of becoming extinctRead More...Methane: the quick fix for global warming?
What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
How the legal system is preventing environmental justice
'Just throw it out' - Council advice on toxic lightbulbs
Ian Randall9th March, 2010
An Ecologist investigation reveals that three quarters of London Boroughs are advising their residents to simply throw compact fluorescent lightbulbs in their general waste, despite the hazard posed by their mercury contentRead More...The human cost of 'super-clean' sugar ethanol
Ella Windsor2nd March, 2010
Brazil is hailed as a biofuels success story - producing and using ethanol from high yielding crops within the country. But those indigenous families who have been displaced by sugar cane cultivation see things differentlyRead More...How we poison Bangladesh with toxic ship carcasses
Andrew Hickman23rd February, 2010
Workers are dying in Bangladesh’s shipyards because the west's shipping industry - including UK companies - is not taking responsibility for the disposal of ageing vesselsRead More...Jatropha biofuels: UK investors sell controversial crop as 'green'
Jatropha biofuels: the true cost to Tanzania
Copenhagen failed. So should we tax carbon at the border?
Erik Assadourian: our society needs some serious cultural engineering
Matilda Lee10th March, 2010
The editor of the influential Worldwatch 'State of the World' report on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainabilityRead More...LSE's Anne Power: my recipe for 80 per cent energy savings in your home
Having both emissions trading and feed-in tariffs is a waste of time
Dan Box12th March, 2010
The new feed-in tariffs are nothing if not controversial, but they also run the risk of conflicting with other, international, climate change policiesRead More...EU carbon trading scheme has been 'an enormous success'
Danny Ellerman9th March, 2010
The European Emissions Trading Scheme was always going to disappoint the NGOs who wanted a perfect climate solution, but simply bashing it ignores the progerss that can be made through small stepsRead More...No-one put Keats on a well-being course and a dose of Prozac
Are Nike, Starbucks and Walmart our best hope against climate change?
Climate deniers and Friends of the Earth are both wrong
Greening my office: no one’s switched on
Sylvia Sunshine3rd March, 2010
In her second blog posting, young environmental pretender Sylvia Sunshine reports on her attempts to convert her office workplace to more sustainable practicesRead More...Atlantic Rising: How sea level rises are poisoning water in Ghana
Will Lorimer2nd March, 2010
In the latest blog the Atlantic Rising team look at how rising sea levels are poisoning local water sources in Western GhanaRead More...Is the climate change movement splintering?
Greening my office: these guys print everything
I failed. I caught a plane
US climate expert: even sceptics want to retrofit their homes
Ecologist5th February, 2010
Dr Andrew Light, a climate policy expert at the Center for American Progress, says that he believes even US citizens who are sceptical about climate change will take steps to become more energy efficientRead More...Why we need a right to build our homes
Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi: a 'Western stooge'?
COP15: 'We will not just discuss procedure'
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