FAO: Plantations are not forests!
Mar 20, 2017, 4:18 pm By The Ecologist
Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests'…Fukushima court ruling holds 'reckless' Tepco and government liable
Mar 20, 2017, 3:57 pm By The Ecologist
A Japanese court has found the government and Tepco culpable for the Fukushima nuclear disaster for…Badgered to Death? Now MPs have no excuse for ignorance
Mar 20, 2017, 11:03 am By The Ecologist
The badger cull is a clear failure on scientific, cost and humanity grounds, writes Dominic Dyer.…Killer 'hot particle': Sellafield coast 'like Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones'
Mar 20, 2017, 9:44 am By The Ecologist
The discovery of a tiny but deadly radioactive 'hot particle' in mud from the Esk estuary near…Fukushima farmers grow traditional brown cotton
Mar 20, 2017, 9:14 am By The Ecologist
In 2011 the Fukushima region of Japan was devastated by an earthquake and nuclear disaster. Six…Sign the Woodland Trust's ‘Enough is Enough' petition to save UK's ancient woodland
Mar 20, 2017, 7:43 am By The Ecologist
There's welcome news for campaigners lobbying for the protection of Britain's ancient woodland.…Heathrow 2.0: a 'sustainable airport'? Or alternative facts on planes and pollution?
Mar 17, 2017, 11:15 am By The Ecologist
The facts are simple: a new London runway means more planes, more noise, more pollution and more…Force of Nature
Mar 17, 2017, 9:50 am By The EcologistThe curator of the new Force of Nature exhibition in London's Art Pavilion tells our Arts Editor,…Ecologist Special Report: The world's leading Coral Reef scientist says only a global effort will save the Great Barrier Reef
Mar 17, 2017, 8:18 am By The Ecologist
Ecologist reporter MAXINE NEWLANDS sat down with the world's leading coral reef expert,…Ecologist Special Report: World' rarest dolphin heading towards extinction
Mar 16, 2017, 6:57 am By The Ecologist
New Zealand's Maui dolphin, the world's smallest, is headed to extinction after a half-century of…Cypress: time to crack down on Mediterranean's biggest songbird massacre
4:19pm By The Ecologist
The illegal trapping of birds on Cyprus is taking place on an industrial scale, writes Jamie Wyver,…Cyprus: time to crack down on Mediterranean's biggest songbird massacre
4:19pm By The Ecologist
The illegal trapping of birds on Cyprus is taking place on an industrial scale, writes Jamie Wyver,…Measures of poverty and well-being still ignore the environment - this must change
2:46pm By The Ecologist
Orthodox economic measures like Gross Domestic product fail to measure the things that matter most,…Environmental vandalism? Campaigners regroup to stop the Great Downland Sell-Off
11:42am By The Ecologist
Campaigners up and down the country are trying to stop public access land from going under the…Pity the poor hounds! Bovine TB, foxhounds and the biosecurity black hole
10:46am By The Ecologist
The 25 TB-infected hounds of the Kimblewick hunt, all put down, remind us that the lot of hunting…Ecologist Special Report: New Zealand's Fisheries' Fraud
8:09am By The Ecologist
New Zealand's "Clean and Green" image has been tarnished by revelations that senior officials…Fracking, Brexit and austerity: the coming fight for British freedom
Tue 11:07am By The EcologistPost Brexit, get ready for a massive attack on our liberty, especially on the right to protest,…UK exporting 67% of plastic waste amid 'illegal practices' warnings
Mar 13, 2017, 10:49 am By The Ecologist
Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming, writes Maeve McClenaghan. But it's not…Terminal decline? Fukushima anniversary marks nuclear industry's deepening crisis
Mar 10, 2017, 7:30 am By The EcologistWith the sixth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster falling tomorrow, nuclear lobbyists are arguing…Noise, the 'ignored pollutant': health, nature and ecopsychology
Mar 9, 2017, 2:07 pm By The EcologistThe sonic backdrop to our lives is increasingly one of unwanted technospheric noise, writes Paul…
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