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The lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines.A vast vortex of plastic floating endlessly around the Pacific.A...

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The lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines.A vast vortex of plastic floating endlessly around the Pacific.A...

We have a special relationship with the sea. It is the single most powerful driver of our economy, our lifestyle and our...

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Wouldn't you like: - Products that don't damage the environment?- A better way of life without agonising about your 'foo...

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'All I want is to stay where I am . . . My heart and soul are in this place.'(Willie Corduff, one of The Rossport Five)I...

Colourless, tasteless, odourless, ageless: water is both the simplest thing on earth and the most complex. We cannot liv...

With the emphasis today on seasonal foods, on sourcing local produce, on saving energy and on home cooking, the traditio...

'Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as a...

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All known forms of life depend on water. Covering 71 per cent of the Earth's surface, water seems to be plentiful. But t...

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From the medical sheets in maternity wards to our death certificates, paper charts the course of our lives. Paradoxicall...

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Everybody loves a holiday but we often don't consider the effect our travel has on the environment and the communities w...

Not long ago it was considered fairly radical to buy organic produce, and the phrase 'ethical food' was almost unheard o...

Green issues are certainly in the news right now. The climate is in turmoil, oil and gas are running out and it's becomi...

James Martin, one of the world's most widely respected authorities on the impact of technology on society, argues that w...

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Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and hu...

Is international terrorism really the single greatest threat to world security?Since the 9/11 attacks, many Western gove...

Are you hoping to change the world?In this handy little Yellow Pages of ethical choices, Lisa Harrow shows you how small...

After winning the Global Reuters IUCN media award for excellence in environmental reporting, Alanna Mitchell launches he...

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We have reached a pivotal moment for fishing, with seventy-five percent of the world's fish stocks either fully exploite...

In a world dominated by technological change, it is easy to forget the importance of plants: they feed us, clothe us, cl...