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How free trade has devastated Africa’s farmers and poor

Jeremy Hance 15 Feb 2010

Commodity trade and urbanization, rather than rural poverty, drive deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Feb 2010

Will it be possible to feed nine billion people sustainably?

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2010

Forgotten species: discovering the shimmer of Maathai’s Longleg

Jeremy Hance 13 Jan 2010

Dams a ‘monument of corruption’: Baru Bian, new leader of Sarawak’s People’s Justice Party

Jeremy Hance 12 Jan 2010

Bolivia’s President blames capitalism for global warming

Jeremy Hance 18 Dec 2009

Is the US sinking climate change talks at Copenhagen?

Jeremy Hance 16 Dec 2009

Pope Benedict: environmental crisis requires review of world’s economic model

Jeremy Hance 15 Dec 2009

Well-known climate change denialist labels activists in Copenhagen ‘Hitler Youth’

Jeremy Hance 15 Dec 2009

African nations return to the negotiating table after walkout in Copenhagen

Jeremy Hance 14 Dec 2009

US think-tank: islands affected by global warming should wait for trickle-down money

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2009

Leaked document in Copenhagen seen as sidelining poor countries

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2009

Profile of the carbon footprint of the global poor: the challenge of alleviating poverty and fighting global warming

Jeremy Hance 7 Dec 2009

World requires radical new economic models to fight poverty and mitigate global warming

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2009

Americans throw away enough food every year to feed 200 million adults

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2009

Land of plenty: 50 percent rise in the amount of food wasted in America worsens global warming, consumes freshwater

Jeremy Hance 25 Nov 2009

Global warming will increase likelihood of civil war in Africa by 55 percent

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2009

Oil palm workers still below poverty line, despite Minister’s statements

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2009

Using fish as livestock feed threatens global fisheries

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2009

Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2009

NASA satellite image reveals extent of drought in East Africa

Jeremy Hance 5 Nov 2009

200 million more people going hungry

Jeremy Hance 26 Oct 2009

“Money is not a problem,” palm oil CEO tells conservationists during speech defending the industry

Jeremy Hance 26 Oct 2009

Kenya’s pain, part two: decades of wildlife decline exacerbated by drought

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2009

Palm oil industry pledges wildlife corridors to save orangutans

Jeremy Hance 3 Oct 2009

Could agroforestry solve the biodiversity crisis and address poverty?, an interview with Shonil Bhagwat

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2009

Working to save the ‘living dead’ in the Atlantic Forest, an interview with Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

Jeremy Hance 23 Sep 2009

After declining 95% in 15 years, Saiga antelope begins to rebound with help from conservationists

Jeremy Hance 20 Sep 2009

Kenya’s pain: famine, drought, government ambivalence cripples once stable nation

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2009

Alleviating poverty and saving biodiversity are inherently linked argue scientists

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2009

Innovative reforestation project threatened by ‘regime change’ in Madagascar, an interview with Rainer Dolch

Jeremy Hance 16 Sep 2009

Saving gorillas by bringing healthcare to local people in Uganda, an interview with Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

Jeremy Hance 16 Sep 2009

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