Environment

As delegates gather at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, two videos expose what happens when community land is taken over by private interests.

Filed in: Environment Sustainability World Bank

Environmental activists are furious as a report published this week gives the green light for energy companies to drill for gas across the UK.

Filed in: Climate Change Pollution United Kingdom

There’s no escape for BP directors as Danny Chivers and others pull off an audacious direct action at the oil company’s AGM.

Filed in: Oil United Kingdom

Time to take aim at the tyrannical President of Equatorial Guinea in this month’s ‘Worldbeater’.

Filed in: Equatorial Guinea Oil Politics Wealth

New Internationalist co-editor Hazel Healy travelled there to find out how people are adapting to a warming world.

Filed in: Bangladesh Climate Change Land Water World Bank

Aoife Allen describes how The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is not doing enough to clean up the gems trade.

Filed in: Africa Human Rights Mining Wealth Zimbabwe

22 April is Earth Day. Should punishment be made to those personally responsible for destroying our planet?

Filed in: Land Oil Power Wealth

From air-conditioned bus stops in Dubai to painting Peruvian hill tops: a graphic guide to humankind’s steps to adapt to global warming.

Filed in: Climate Change

More than 13 million people are at risk of hunger in the Sahel. Jack Craze reports on reactions and reasons why.

Filed in: Disasters Food Mali

The landscape-loving artist’s latest exhibition is sponsored by BNP Paribas, whose money is destroying environments around the world, says David Hill.

Filed in: Art Environment

Zambia claims it is owed $1 billion in tax from mining transnationals, but will Glencore & co clean up their act?

Filed in: Economics Mining Zambia