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Polluted by profit: Johann Hari on the real Climategate

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 08:00
Why did America's leading environmental groups jet to Copenhagen to lobby for policies that will lead to the faster death of the rainforests - and runaway global warming? Why are their staff dismissing the only real solutions to climate change as "unworkable" and "unrealistic"? Why are they clambering into corporate "partnerships" with BP, which is responsible for the worst oil spill in living memory?
Categories: Environment

Balkans sound alarm over disappearing forests

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 08:00
Illegal logging and unregulated real estate projects are threatening the Balkans' once abundant forests, home to more than half of Europe's bears and to large wolf populations.
Categories: Environment

Blueprint for a greener future - the coalition's agreed policies

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 08:00
The coalition Government has published its agreed policies on the environment. Friends of the Earth has broadly welcomed them but called for a higher target for cutting UK emissions and local carbon budgets to ensure councils help tackle climate change
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UN calls for urgent action on saving species

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 08:00
Goods and services from the natural world should be factored into the global economic system, says UN biodiversity report ? Economic report into biodiversity crisis reveals price of consuming the planetThe economic case for global action to stop the destruction of the natural world is even more powe
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The week in wildlife

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 08:00
The world's smallest lily saved by Kew Gardens, the world's smallest wallaby - all creatures, flora and fauna great and small are celebrated this week to mark the the International Day for Biological Diversity
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The price of consuming the planet

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 08:00
Species losses around the world could really cost us the Earth with food shortages, floods and expensive clean up costs? UN biodiversity report calls for global action to prevent destruction of natureIn every corner of the globe the evidence of the global biodiversity crisis is now impossible to ign
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Hippopotamus on menu at Beijing zoo

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 08:00
Don't feed the animals, but feel free to feed on them in the restaurant, visitors to Chinese capital's zoo are told? Student activists try to change Chinese appetites? A peek inside China's live animals marketsVisitors to Beijing zoo are warned not to feed the animals, but they are encouraged to eat
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Polluted by profit: Johann Hari on the real Climategate

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 08:00
Why did America's leading environmental groups jet to Copenhagen to lobby for policies that will lead to the faster death of the rainforests - and runaway global warming? Why are their staff dismissing the only real solutions to climate change as "unworkable" and "unrealistic"? Why are they clambering into corporate "partnerships" with BP, which is responsible for the worst oil spill in living memory?
Categories: Environment