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Can oil save the rainforest?

Pipe dreams: the 500km pipeline that transports oil from Lago Agrio to the port of Esmeraldas, on the Pacific Coast. The oil discovery destroyed the area. Photograph: Remi Benali/Corbis American…
AUTHOR:John Vidal
PUBLISHED: Jan. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2138 words)

The ash tree crisis: a disaster in the making

At risk: ash trees at Grange Fell near Watendlath in the Lake District. Photograph: Tim Graham/Getty Images Ashwellthorpe lower wood is still, wet and silent. Gold and ginger leaves float from the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2328 words)

David Attenborough: force of nature

Sir David Attenborough photographed at home in Richmond. Photograph: Suki Dhanda It is hard to believe that David Atten
PUBLISHED: Oct. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2346 words)

World's conservation hopes rest on Ecuador's revolutionary Yasuni model

In their first hour in Yasuni's Amazonian forest, many people will see more creatures than they have seen in their entire lives, including some that have yet to be documented by science. To paddle up…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1924 words)

Why the claws are out for the RSPB

Golden eagles are now flourishing in the Scottish Highlands. Photograph: Sylvain Cordier/Biosphoto/Stev The annual general meeting of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is a splendid…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3155 words)

James Lovelock on shale gas and the problem with 'greens'

British scientist James Lovelock: '[it makes me] very cross with the greens for trying to knock it [shale gas].' Photograph: Eamonn McCabe When I last interviewed James Lovelock in 2010, I provided…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3063 words)

What's the truth about fracking?

Protesters voice their opposition to fracking at Hesketh Bank, Lancashire. Photograph: Alamy "It was just like something from Nasa," says Doreen Stopforth, pointing from the front window of her…
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2722 words)
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