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Beekeeping relieves land degradation in Kyrgyzstan
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Journey of a printer cartridge
A Japanese printer cartridge recycling initiative is an example of good corporate cooperation - an essential ingredient for a green revolution.
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E-waste: not your normal trash
Increasingly large amounts of electrical and electronic waste are raising questions about resource efficiency and concerns about the dangers to humans and the environment.
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Bolivia’s fight for survival can help save democracy too
Naomi Klein argues that the people's summit in Bolivia to tackle climate change is a radical response to the Copenhagen club's failure
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Earth Day 40th Year Special: Give earth a chance, again
Despite some progress since the first Earth Day, the West’s environmental problems have been outsourced.
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Biodiversity
Pastures for the future in Kyrgyzstan
Sustainable land management systems are becoming vital to the preservation of the Pamir-Alai mountain ecosystems upon which local people rely for their livelihoods.
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Climate
Scientists cleared of malpractice in hacked e-mails
University of East Anglia climate researchers are "dedicated if slightly disorganised", but basic science was fair, an inquiry finds.
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Oil
Our world without economic growth
Beyond concepts of green or sustainable growth is that of 'no growth', distinguished by the fact that it doesn't equate ‘development’ with economic expansion.
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Climate
Requiem for a species
In his latest book, Requiem for a Species, ethicist Clive Hamilton examines why we resist the truth about the full implications of climate change.
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Biodiversity
What can Japan do to conserve biodiversity?
Japanese firms and communities are increasingly getting involved in conserving biodiversity.
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Biodiversity
The tea forests of Yunnan
Mangjing Village's tea gardens show that traditional cultivation systems can both support local livelihoods and conserve biodiversity.
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Biodiversity
A Thousand Suns: the view from Ethiopia’s Gamo Highlands
Externally driven agricultural pressures threaten an ancient and sustainable way of living.
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Biodiversity
Endangered species trade enforcement is key
Despite criticisms, the recent CITES meeting was a step forward for enforcement against trade in endangered species.
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Food
The secret is in the soil
Organic gardener and social entrepreneur John Moore explains that the secret to healthy life is in healthy organic soil.
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Climate
Don’t hound the climate scientists
IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri re-asserts that evidence of climate change is undeniable, despite recent scientific inaccuracies.
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Climate
Resilient Bangladesh: Songs for a changing world
In this final part of the Bangladesh series, we see how children are learning about adapting to changes in their environment.
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Climate
Resilient Bangladesh: Mapping local solutions
This second video of the series shows how the people of Bangladesh are tackling local problems like less predictable rainfall.
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Climate
Resilient Bangladesh: Fishermen cope with rough seas
This video brief, the first in a 3-part series showcasing Bangladeshi resilience in coping with climate change, looks at a fisherman's struggle.
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Food
The making of World Water Wars
Filmmaker Sam Bozzo shares what it was like to make a documentary about people around the world fighting for their basic right to water.
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Biodiversity
10% of Europe’s butterflies face extinction
Insects are being hit hard by the loss of grassland habitats due to intensification of agriculture, climate change and abandonment of farming land.
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Climate
Scrap and trade: scavenging myths
Scavenging from the waste stream not only reduces poverty among trash pickers, but brings myriad economic and environmental benefits.
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Food
Food rules, so eat food!
Many of the rules in food writer Michael Pollan's new book are so obvious, you almost wonder why he bothered to compile them for us.
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Oil
Survivalism back in vogue
Spurred on by peak oil, climate change and global economic troubles, there is a new upsurge in websites, books and films focused on notions of scarcity and constraint.
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Oil
Bye-bye, beta! Hello, new design
It is a pleasure to launch our new look! This is another step in our drive to reach ever more readers who can help us to upgrade our world.
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Biodiversity
Finding a place to feed: Kyrgyz shepherds suffer pasture loss
Kyrgyz shepherds in the Tian Shan Mountains are challenged as climate and degradation alter their land and lives.
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Climate
Putting nanotech to green use?
After a glimpse of eco-friendly uses of nanotechnology at a recent exhibit in Tokyo, we still have questions.
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Food
My green team
New York City 9th grader Elizabeth Adesanya writes about her efforts to live sustainably.
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Climate
How things work: Carbon trading
The debate around the merits of cap and trade has become intense of late, particularly in the United State
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Food
Debate 2.0: Too lazy to cook?
Despite all the facts and inspiration out there, far too many people are still mainly eating out or fueling themselves with pre-prepared things. Are you guilty?
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Food
Tasmania’s potato protectors
The Tasmanian Institute for Agricultural Research protects Tasmania's biodiversity by cultivating, certifying and sharing new and old potato varieties.
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Climate
Post COP15 industrial policy
National industrial policies need to be reassessed in light of the financial crisis and ongoing negotiations for a global agreement on reducing emissions.
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Climate
Obama gives green light to nuclear reactors
The US president announces $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for construction of the country’s first nuclear reactors in 30 years.
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Biodiversity
What happened here, at the Salton Sea?
This photo-essay begs the question: Is there a bearable margin of ecosystem wreckage inherent to feeding and powering the world?
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Oil
Hawaii’s clean energy challenge
Although it is the most oil-dependent State in the United States, Hawaii launched a Clean Energy Initiative and aims to go 70% green by 2030.
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Climate
Usable thoughts on climate
Usable Thoughts: Climate, Water and Weather in the 21st Century is a pocket guide for those uninclined to read scientific research.
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Food
Sands shifting for Africa’s nomadic herders
Huge areas of land used by pastoralists in Africa have been lost to sedentary farming and conservation.
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Oil
The population paradox
In addressing resource scarcity and climate change, it is meaningless to talk of limiting population without scaling back consumption.
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Biodiversity
Land has breath: respecting nature in Altai
Russia’s Altai Republic is home to rich indigenous culture that has respected and protected the natural environment for generations.
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Food
Links to local food
Growing crops on golf courses can become a valuable local solution to problems like food self-sufficiency and community health.
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Climate
Fifty books to change the world
A list of the Top 50 Sustainability Books has just been published by Cambridge's Programme for Sustainability Leadership.
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Biodiversity
Invasive aliens hurting species diversity
With enough funds and political will, invasive alien species can be controlled or eradicated and biodiversity protected.
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