'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
Feb 10, 2016, 1:12 pm 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
Feb 10, 2016, 1:12 pm 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
Feb 10, 2016, 8:55 am By The EcologistNew research indicates that agricultural policies aimed at alleviating poverty in Africa is making…Beyond Paris: avoiding the trap of carbon metrics
Feb 10, 2016, 7:35 am 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
Feb 10, 2016, 7:35 am 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
Feb 10, 2016, 5:27 am 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
Feb 9, 2016, 2:18 pm 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
Feb 9, 2016, 11:19 am 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
Feb 9, 2016, 9:18 am By The EcologistAs Cuadrilla's application to frack in Lancashire goes to public inquiry today, protestors from…If you think it's bad inside the EU, think again
Feb 9, 2016, 6:36 am By The EcologistA British exit from the EU wouldn't liberate us from the extreme neoliberalism epitomised by TTIP,…‘Land Grabbing’: exposing the impacts of large-scale agriculture on local communities
Feb 8, 2016, 12:18 pm By The EcologistAgriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers…'Recycling is for drunks, addicts and babushkas' - inside Russia's shadowy waste industry
Feb 8, 2016, 8:42 am By The EcologistOfficial recycling rates in Russia stand at close to zero, writes Minna Halme. But my study of the…Brazil must save Amazon's Kawahiva tribe from genocide
Feb 8, 2016, 6:51 am By The EcologistThe Kawahiva, an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rainforest, face extinction unless Brazil's…Indian Point reactors contaminate New York groundwater
Feb 8, 2016, 5:30 am By The EcologistHighly radioactive tritium has leaked into groundwater at the Indian Point nuclear site 40 miles…
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