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Deepwater Horizon: the world has changed, but the oil industry hasn’t

Posted by Mal Chadwick - 5th October 2016

Everyone knows the story. Miles below the seabed, a cement seal fails. A rig explodes. Smoke fills the sky, oil stains the sea, and 11 people never make it home. Ashen-faced execs stumble through press conferences. Rubber-gloved hands scrub poison from seabirds’ wings. Everyone solemnly agrees… Read More

World Habitat Day in pictures: A Nepalese Village moves

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 30th September 2016

It’s World Habitat Day today! Each year we reflect on the importance of the basic human right to adequate shelter reminding the world of its responsibility for the habitat of future generations. Due to global warming, the water in the Sam Dzong area is very scarce and the… Read More

Time to transform our fishing industry: for fishermen and the ocean.

Posted by Alix Foster vander Elst - 28th September 2016
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George Eustice MP, fisheries minister has the power to transform the UK’s fishing industry. Will he use it? For years, local fishermen in the UK have been left struggling. Constrained by the amount of fish they’re allowed to catch (quota), they’ve seen their livelihoods all but disappear. In turn, their… Read More

The lowdown on UN’s SOFIA report: 89.5% of fish are now fully or overfished

Posted by Fiona Nicholls - 23rd September 2016
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The SOFIA report is a biennial publication that outlines the State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture of the previous two years, hence the name. Commissioned by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (‘for a world without hunger,’ is their tagline), the report is a big deal… Read More

Three small letters destroying the rainforest

Posted by India Thorogood - 23rd September 2016
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Decades of forest destruction by palm oil and paper companies laid the foundations for 2015’s Indonesian forest fires. The Indonesian government responded with a firm commitment to crack down on rogue companies. Hundreds of thousands of us pushed brands like Colgate to toughen up their ‘no deforestation’ policies. But while… Read More