Coast Guard operations, countering EU opposition, boycotts and bureaucracy cost Canadian taxpayers many times the revenue generated by the annual seal hunt.
19 April, 2008 - 01:00
This week is Mental Detox Week, formerly TV-turn-off week. Are you a slave to technology? Are you using it or is it using you?
19 April, 2008 - 01:00
The smell wafting over South East England may be from Dutch farmers spreading slurry, and could become an annual event if the Government goes ahead with its plan to ban winter slurry spreading.
11 April, 2008 - 01:00
Jack Straw has said that "the Attorney General will cease to have any power to give directions to prosecutors in individual cases, save in certain exceptional cases which give rise to issues of national security", in proposed constitutional reforms.
This would legitimise any future meddling in cases like the abandoned BAE investigation, described by The Corner House/CAAT's successful judicial review as unlawful.
9 April, 2008 - 01:00
as part of a secret trial to analyse the web traffic of its broadband customers, and then serve selected adverts on a number of selected websites. Report from the Guardian.
2 April, 2008 - 21:04
says an investigation by ActionAid into the activities of the world’s biggest platinum mining company. The ActionAid report details how the local Bapedi community have lost access to their main means of livelihood – land and a safe water supply.
2 April, 2008 - 21:01
Poor African farmers who export their produce by air, or Western consumers who care about the environmental impact of ‘food miles’? The UK’s Soil Association is beginning a debate to decide if air miles should stop producers earning coveted organic certification for their produce. Kenya’s organic produce industry has described the possible move as ‘just another’ non-tariff trade barrier.
2 April, 2008 - 21:00
Swedish scientists have found trangenic oilseed rape plants still growing in a field despite a decade of intensive efforts to remove them. “We should assume that GM organisms cannot be confined, and ask instead what will become of them when they escape.” said Prof Mark Westoby. “The government must now tear up its weak proposals for the ‘coexistence’ of GM with organic and conventional crops, and put in place tough rules that protect GM-free food and farming.” said FoE. FSA declares GM rice unsafe
31 March, 2008 - 01:00
- so say unofficial results leaked from the ZANU-PF and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, ZEC, command centres. At the same time commentators say it would be something of a miracle if Mugabe and his party had secured the victory, given more than 85 per cent unemployment, serious food shortages and a collapsed health delivery system.
28 March, 2008 - 15:27
The recent uprisings against Chinese rule in Tibet, India and Nepal are the largest Tibetan political demonstrations since 1989.