Impossible to see the wood for the fumes
Applied Environmental Economics
Applied Environmental Economics
Applied Environmental Economics
On the shores of the Adriatic, economists and ecologists have come together to turn global policy-makers in a greener directionI while enjoying a little Chianti. Chris Bunting reports A little knot...
Paris, 19 Nov 2002 Levels of sulphur dioxide around Mount Etna have dropped three to four times since the volcano's initial eruption, according to an analysis of ESA satellite data. Data from the...
Colin Samson reports on the native Innu of Labrador and their battle to reclaim independence and dignity. We watched helpless from the shore as our motor-powered canoe floated off into Utshisk-nipi....
Before we walked the earth, our planet was subject to abrupt short-lived climate swings. Richard Alley believes that this pattern could begin again. Climate changes, and humans adapt. Through the...
Delta - Rivers of Discord - Water, Rivers and Creeks - Cleaning up the Great Lakes
Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity - Hotspots
In the last in our series on where academics congregate in the summer, Elizabeth Capaldi reports from an island by the Panama Canal - home to sloths, snakes, monkeys and ecologists On Barro Colorado...
Ancient West Mexico - Ancient Oaxaca
Sanjida O'Connell explains how she used her PhD thesis on chimps to write a novel, an extract of which is opposite. She felt like Jesus. All around her the field of flowers shimmered, slick with dew...
Managing Habitats for Conservation - A Primer of Conservation Biology
Ragnar Lofstedt asks if grand environmental UN conclaves really achieve anything. Global warming is in the news again. Last month signatories to the United Nations convention on climate change came...
Aisling Irwin talks to Jane Goodall, the first zoologist to credit chimpanzees with personalities. The dramatic moment when chimpanzees were first spotted using tools: "Evered, as he climbed through...
American philosopher Martha Nussbaum is consumed with the notion of how we should live our lives. Lucy Hodges finds out how she has lived hers. As a child Martha Nussbaum spent solitary hours reading...