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Published in: TransformationElemental Dr Watson?
Michael Edwards explores a new documentary about three people who are confronting environmental degradation in a...
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Published in: HomeNo control panel
Struck by malevolent storms our Sunday Comics columnist finds the ardour and expense of repairs compounded by the...
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Published in: HomeThe great tide of 31 January 1953
An enormous surge of water over the coastal lands of south-east England sixty years ago took hundreds of lives and...
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Published in: openIndiaIndia Burning
When the rice harvest season finishes in a few weeks, fields in India will turn black as farmers burn thousands of...
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Published in: openEconomyLatin America in a post-development era: an interview with Arturo Escobar
Colombian-American anthropologist Arturo Escobar is one of Latin America's leading voices on post-development theory...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of myth making: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
Myths of human survival that evade questions of gender, race and social relations, won’t help us adapt in a world...
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Published in: HomeLatest climate signs should jolt leaders into global action
Although climate change has seemingly disappeared from the global political agenda, recent signs show we're not that...
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Published in: HomeOffshore oil drilling in the EU: environmental policies corroded by lobbying
The EU Parliament’s industry committee missed an opportunity today to make offshore oil drilling more safe and responsible
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Published in: HomeDemocracy and sustainability: a joint cause
A new manifesto argues that the advance of democracy and of sustainable development is at heart a shared endeavour....
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Published in: HomeIsaac: the intemperate bastard
The latest messages from our columnist and friend in New Orleans
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Published in: HomeClimate change: time to transform
The understanding of global climate change has deepened since the 1970s, in parallel with voluminous research into...
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Published in: HomeThe death of a controversy?
Non-news about a "controversy" on life support, an inconsequential U-turn and the unfortunate fact that...
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Published in: HomeClimate politics: hockey-stick to hamster-wheel
The containment of greenhouse-gas emissions requires political will. But to get to that point the debate about...
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Published in: HomeWhat is energy for?
So familiar has the social economy of energy become in modern societies, so routine its extraordinardinary...
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Published in: openEconomyChina’s big bet on green industry – and how it might green the world
After the failure of Durban, a promising plan B to reducing carbon emissions rests upon green development industrial...
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Published in: oDRFlowers on a dung heap: markets, politicians and the demise of Russian rural life
The economic and political transformations of the 1990s onwards have allowed much of the Russian countryside to die...
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Published in: openIndiaMega dams: campaigning against the plans of the Indian government
In demonstrations barely reported in the media, peasants and students in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam are...
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Published in: HomeWater in the Arab Spring
Water scarcity in the Middle East & North Africa is at the root of the region’s uprisings. In the coming years, it...
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Published in: HomeThreat to opportunity: the new logic of climate policy
In the clutches of recession, the Ryanair chief executive may now breathe a sigh of relief as binding emission...
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Published in: HomeA world in crisis: echo, need, hope
A fresh awareness of system-failure and resource-constraint draws on the experience and ideas of the 1970s. But this...