Category: environment and the natural world

Does Working with Business Compromise the Environmentalist?

Environmentalists are foolishly following Prince Charles over the spiritual abyss.

The public health emergency no one has noticed

At last the British Government is starting to protect the environment

The poor are dying younger because they are being systematically poisoned

By targeting chemicals factories, Nato is waging war against civilians

An absurd and dangerous project threatens Britain’s most important mountain habitat

The environment succumbs to Labour’s cynical realpolitik

Conservation is becoming one of the greatest threats to the global environment.

The Duke of Edinburgh, currently president of the WWF, is an environmental disaster area

Review of: The River Stops Here: How One Man’s Battle to Save His Valley Changed the Fate of California. Ted Simon, Random House, New York.

Nearly all the mahogany leaving Brazil has been taken, illegally, from protected reserves

The Government’s official position is that we should pour our hazardous waste down the drain.

Environmentalism is at the vanguard of Britain’s movements for political change

In East Africa, conservationists are creating a wilderness out of inhabited lands, then punishing the people they have dispossessed

Environmentalism is yet to inspire a great novel

Richard Leakey’s reappointment as head of the Kenya Wildlife Service is a disaster for Kenya’s nomads

Local people are the real victims of the turf war between the conservation authorities in Kenya

A peasant farmers’ project in the western Amazon might hold the key to protecting the forests

The only people who can prevent the invasion of Indian reserves in Brazil and British and American consumers