Cattle ranching biggest driver of Amazon deforestation
Public unable to accurately gauge environmental degradation, say scientists
Cancer expert believe links with mobile phones will be ‘definitively proven’ in next 10 years
National Grid plans to use ‘carbon targets’ to measure managerial staff performance
EU Parliament and the European Food Safety Agency to tighten up regulations on nanotechnology

So what connects Prince Charles and a large green frog? This modern spin on the fable of the frog and the Prince relates to the launch on 5th May of an online video and social networking campaign in support of the Prince’s Rainforest Project (PRP).
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One of the country’s longest standing tree-camps is determined to see off Tesco, its planned new hyperstore and allied £3bn development at Titnore Woods, Durrington, near Worthing.
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At 8:30pm on Saturday 28th March the world will be plunged into darkness. But fear not, this is not a cause for alarm but for celebration.
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Sustainable transport offers not only a golden ticket out of our pollution- and traffic-choked cities, but also a means of improving the health and wellbeing of travellers and society alike. Hank Dittmar explores the greener way to go
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We can continue to squander our resources and react to food crises as they happen, or we can fundamentally change the way food systems work, says Carolyn Steel
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Building a more sustainable future is vital if our societies are to survive in a post-fossil-fuel future - but the way we build must itself first change. Susan Roaf looks at the role of green design and low-energy development in a warming world
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It probably isn’t too much of an exaggeration to suggest that most people are hard pushed to name a politician they really admire. In Britain, however, one name will come up time and again.
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Dan Box reports from a community in its death throes, as the Carteret islanders pack up their homes and prepare to become the world’s first climate change refugees
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While governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. Mara Hvistendahl reports from the United Nations.
Read More...Al Jazeera's five-part series, 'Corporations on Trial' looks at some of the rapidly growing law suits across the world today.
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Mark Anslow, Laura Sevier, Dan Box and Matilda Lee profile 10 visionaries with 10 big ideas for a better world.
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Rail travel is the cheaper, greener, more comfortable way to go, so ditch your flight plan in favour of a fast train to the world. Laura Sevier learns more from rail aficionado the man in Seat 61
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Tinker’s Bubble is proof that sustainable low-impact living is not a pipe dream but already a reality. In 1993 a group of 10 friends, including former Ecologist editor Simon Fairlie, shared a vision of a place where people could live and work in harmony with the land, ‘organically, sustainably and collectively’. This utopian ideal led them to establish the cooperative trust of Tinker’s Bubble.
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What started as a pub chat evolved into Greenpeace’s most audacious coup yet. Joss Garman reports on a plan to pull the carpet out from under BAA ’s third runway at Heathrow – by buying up the very land beneath its feet
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At some point or another, the majority of us have sat down with friends and put the world to rights. Whether that is during some fiery and intense debate about politics, the environment or feeding the less-industrialised world, there are times when we try to put an answer together for everything.
Read More... Book Review: It's not easy being green
Book Review: The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment by Peter Dauvergne
Book review: Surviving the century - Facing Climate Chaos & Other Global Challenges

Conservation event organised by Conservation Today - a news & opinions website run by postgraduate students
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The Open Ground is a conservation event organised by Conservation Today, a news and opinions website run by postgraduate students.

