Environment
Articles about Environment, ordered by date. 
Touch the earth
As reserves dwindle and demand balloons, resource companies are pushing into more remote regions and onto indigenous land. Jen Wilton tours seven hotspots where native people are demanding the right to decide what happens on their ancestral territory.
A tsingular beauty
Kara Moses reports on plans to dig bitumen in Madagascar.
Commodities and dependency - The Facts
The facts and figures of commodities and our dependence on them.
The pitfalls of resource wealth
Natural resource wealth isn't always a blessing. As Wayne Ellwood discovers, sometimes it can be just the opposite.
Will fracking realign the world?
Pundits foresee an altered world order brought on by fracked gas and oil. Dinyar Godrej thinks the changes could play out quite differently to the most common predictions.
Provoking an American climate crisis
The US government deserves to have a political crisis brought to its door, argues Mark Engler.
Making waves: Azzam Alwash
Veronique Mistiaen meets the environmentalist who has breathed new life into Iraq’s Garden of Eden.
Ghosts on our own land
Gigantic palm oil plantations across Indonesia and Malaysia are having a devastating impact on local farms and workers, too. Ollie Milman reports from Sumatra.
Facing the vultures
Argentina is not in the habit of being cowed by international pressure and financial big-hitters – or by proponents of austerity. Vanessa Baird reports.
Introducing... The Eight Great Greenwashers
Ahead of the Rio +20 Earth Summit, Danny Chivers exposes the canny, crafty and plain deceitful claims of corporations co-opting 'sustainability'
Essay: Deindustrializing humanity
Neither humanity nor nature are commodities. It’s time the old ideology was dissolved, writes Jeremy Seabrook.
Why cross-border electrics are not such a bright idea
Renewable energy mega-projects are causing environmental damage and mass displacement says Joyce Nelson.
Avatar for real
From Canada to Congo, from India to Australia, indigenous communities are fighting for their lives and livelihoods.
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