Government ban on fossil fuel divestment threatens future pensioners
Feb 15, 2016, 1:18 pm By The EcologistThe government is set to ban local authorities and their £14 billion pension funds divesting from…Earth First! Winter Moot next weekend: nourishment, inspiration and solidarity for eco-activists
Feb 15, 2016, 11:13 am By The EcologistWhether you're fighting fracking, coal mines, new roads or a third Heathrow runway, next weekend's…EDF's Hinkley C offices occupied as UK nuclear hopes wither
Feb 15, 2016, 9:43 am By The EcologistAn occupation of EDF's site office for Hinkley C turned into a celebration today as the EDF Board…The new 'peak oil': a dollar invested in solar yields more energy than a dollar invested in oil
Feb 13, 2016, 1:43 pm By The EcologistAccording to oil company executives, oil is going to be a major energy source to 2100 and beyond. So…Arms, agribusiness, finance and fossil fuels: the four horsemen of the neoliberal Apocalypse
Feb 12, 2016, 3:06 pm By The EcologistThe world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land, economies and ecosystems, writes…'Killing the Host': the financial system is destroying the global economy
Feb 12, 2016, 12:19 pm By The EcologistThe main engine of economic exploitation is the financial system's ever increasing extraction of…In the Footsteps of Gandhi: An Interview with Vandana Shiva
Feb 12, 2016, 9:24 am By The EcologistVandana Shiva is more than just a leading scientist, author and campaigner on green issues and…From latest gizmo to toxic waste: the dark side of the worldwide electronics obsession
Feb 11, 2016, 11:38 am By The EcologistOur thirst for the latest gadgets has created a vast empire of electronic waste, writes Ian…Fukushima PM Naoto Kan: 'if you love your country, let nuclear go!'
Feb 11, 2016, 11:24 am By The EcologistNuclear power is a uniquely hazardous technology that can destroy entire nations, Japan's prime…Fund managers: campaign on climate, or face lawsuits
Feb 11, 2016, 9:27 am By The EcologistFund managers who neglect their 'duty of care' to clients by failing to put pressure on the…Beware the GMO Trojan horse! Indian food and farming are under attack
Feb 11, 2016, 5:26 am By The EcologistGlobal oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long term attack on India's…Argentine and Brazilian doctors suspect larvicide as cause of microcephaly
1:12pm By The EcologistWith the proposed connection between the Zika virus and Brazil's outbreak of microcephaly in new…Argentine and Brazilian doctors suspect mosquito insecticide as cause of microcephaly
1:12pm By The EcologistWith the proposed connection between the Zika virus and Brazil's outbreak of microcephaly in new…Intensive, corporate agriculture is increasing poverty in Africa
8:55am By The EcologistNew research indicates that agricultural policies aimed at alleviating poverty in Africa is making…Beyond Paris: avoiding the trap of carbon metrics
7:35am By The EcologistCarbon metrics is the new buzz phrase in the fight against climate change, writes Camila Moreno,…Why the Paris Agreement will fail: the living Earth cannot be reduced to tonnes of carbon
7:35am By The EcologistMainstream solutions to climate change are all based on reducing the world down to a single metric -…Hotter planet helping spread of Zika virus mosquitos
5:27am By The EcologistThe Aedes mosquitos that carry the Zika virus and dengue fever are not just perfectly adapted to…Burkina Faso's decision to drop GM cotton and the law of unintended consequences
Tue 2:18pm By The EcologistOver 100,000 Burkina Faso farmers were pleased with Monsanto's yield-boosting Bt cotton, write Brian…As flooding in Gaza worsens, the most basic of human rights are under threat
Tue 11:19am By The EcologistThe humanitarian crisis in Gaza has worsened after floods and purposeful destruction has taken its…They don't like it up'em: Greenpeace 'frack' Parliament Square
Tue 9:18am By The EcologistAs Cuadrilla's application to frack in Lancashire goes to public inquiry today, protestors from…
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