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Tropical storms have doubled in destructive potential in the past 30 years because ocean surfaces have become warmer, according to a leading climate researcher. This is the first…
Stocks of a small, herring-like fish that provides omega-3 essential fatty acids for supplements taken by millions of people could be endangered because of the Western world’s…
Modified genes from crops in a genetically modified (GM) crop trial have transferred into local wild plants, creating a form of herbicide-resistant “superweed”. The…
Politicians, industry leaders and environment groups across the world welcomed the news on Thursday night that Russia had rejuvenated international efforts to combat climate…
Eight American states and New York city have launched an unprecedented civil action against five of the United States’s largest power companies, demanding that they cut carbon…
An estimated 25 000 people are working as slave labourers in Brazil clearing the Amazon jungle for ranchers, or producing pig iron in the forest using charcoal smelters,…
Hailstones the size of tennis balls are knocking people out in Japan. Shortly afterwards it is snowing in India. But that is only the beginning. But The Day After Tomorrow, a…
The World Bank’s drive to promote fossil fuel-generated power for 1,6-billion people lacking electricity will drive developing countries deeper into debt, a report by a…
Monsanto has abandoned plans to introduce genetically modified (GM) wheat on to the world market, despite spending seven years and hundreds of millions of dollars developing the…
The European Union is to withdraw the massive subsidies it pays to tobacco growers following a bitter battle among agricultural ministers in Brussels. The decision to withdraw…
Several giant tortoises and 30 scientists have been held hostage in the Galapagos Islands by fishermen who are demanding more rights to fish for sharks. The scientists are being…
The Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (Wessa) has expressed its concern over the decision of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism to allow the…
An 11km dam is being built across a small northern section of the shrunken Aral Sea in Central Asia, which is described as the world’s worst environmental disaster. The saline…
Two genetically modified (GM) varieties, oil-seed rape and sugar beet, face a Europe-wide ban after long-awaited field-scale trials showed that the crops damaged wildlife and…
The largest Coca-Cola plant in India is being accused of putting thousands of farmers out of work by draining the water that feeds their wells, and poisoning the land with waste…
Plans to build sewerage works for the 1,2-billion people in the world who live without fresh water and sanitation should be abandoned, says Michael Rouse, the incoming president…
Long after the conflicts are over, the environmental damage still remains. We catalogue the damage done to Kuwait, Kosovo and Afghanistan during the wars in these countries
A report on the prospects for the genetic engineering giant Monsanto, which has 91% of the world’s market in genetically modified (GM) seeds, says the company ”could be another…
The stricken tanker Prestige — which broke apart and sank off Spain’s Atlantic coast this week, taking its destructive cargo to the ocean floor with it — threatens to be Europe’s…
Africa’s largest development project, a 1040km, ,3-billion oil pipeline between Chad and Cameroon, is being criticised for damaging the interests of the poor — the people it was…
