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Jim Armitage: Doan Nguyen Duc, the Vietnamese Arsenal fan and the land grab claims
Friday 17 May 2013
Blog raises serious concerns over Gunners’ partnership with the tycoon’s company
Bill Oddie: Why I was chucked out of HSBC headquarters over Bankwatch film
Tuesday 14 May 2013
At first, I barely even noticed the oil palm plantation. For first timers it’s not what you would initially associate with deforestation
Bankwatch: Bill Oddie evicted from HSBC headquarters after protest over bank's links to logging companies blamed for destruction of the rainforest in Malaysia
Monday 13 May 2013
Campaign group Global Witness releases satirical film featuring BBC presenter
Coming to sites across the UK soon – fracking flares
Thursday 09 May 2013
IGas chief warns that any production of shale gas would involve 'flaring off' leakages
Talks and tigers are a natural attraction
Friday 03 May 2013
My book on migration, The Mara Crossing, took seven years. I put the birds and animals first, so their dangerous journeys could show that the drive to find better living conditions is universal and that human migration, a burning political topic everywhere today, is as natural as that of animals. Both are done to survive, both are part of the self-renewing nature of all life.
The Big Six: Costa Rican hideaways
Saturday 20 April 2013
Private reserves, colourful casitas and boutique retreats
My life in travel: Richard Branson
Saturday 06 April 2013
'Memories are made when travelling, not when you're chained to a desk'
Experts wary of woman’s ‘raised by monkeys’ claim
Sunday 31 March 2013
Experts have queried accounts of a Yorkshire housewife who claims she was raised by a troop of capuchin monkeys after being abducted as a child.
Photography review: Landmark, the Fields of Photography - Planet Earth in all its glory and the macabre beauty of desecration
Saturday 16 March 2013
In a show of exuberant generosity and breadth, images of natural beauty and brutal destruction jostle with Flickr fun
Green is great - while you're rich
Wednesday 27 February 2013
The vertiginous plunges in environmental concern are indeed remarkable – but, it has to be said, only what has been expected ever since the worst global recession for more than half a century took hold.
Field science: When your degree takes you to the jungle
Wednesday 27 February 2013
Not every degree leaves you languishing in lectures for three years. Third-year zoologist Tamara Williams' studies have taken her to Ecuador so she can get up close and personal with rain forest life.
Lily Cole: 'I grew up climbing trees - I was the clambering queen!'
Sunday 24 February 2013
I'm not modelling any more It's been a crazy journey since first being spotted but modelling never felt like a long-term plan. I've wanted to act since I was a child [Cole has appeared in films including The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and last year's Snow White and the Huntsman]. I've also got a geeky side, so I'm now involved in a project within the tech industry.
EDF launches £5m civil claim against group of activists who shut down power station
Thursday 21 February 2013
The energy company EDF has launched a civil claim for £5m in damages against a group of activists who shut down one of its gas-fired power stations in a week-long protest last year.
Review: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Sunday 20 January 2013
Why West is not always best
- 1 Heading for America? Prepare for the longest US immigration queues ever
- 2 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 3 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
- 4 'Swivel-gate': David Cameron goes to war with the press over 'swivel-eyed loons' slur
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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