The Ecologist articles

Recent articles from The Ecologist

CRACKDOWN ON THE FARM.(severe government response to hoof-and-mouth disease outbreak)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 1, 2001... Combined with this edition of The Ecologist is a special report on hygiene issues. It makes a compelling argument that many of the extraordinary regulations imposed on food producers are designed principally, if not completely, to undermine small businesses to the benefit of multinationals....

letters.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... OFFICIAL POLL RESPONSE I always find food for thought in The Ecologist. Reading your survey of public opinion (Vol 30 No 4), two things, which I think are linked, struck me in particular. The first is the perception that we have not improved the environment since we came to power. If...

THE CLIMES THEY ARE A' CHANGIN'.(water shortage in Pakistan)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Climate change is causing massive disruption in Pakistan The same drought which has forced the migration of half a million Afghans in search of food and water has been the cause of widespread protests and violence in Karachi, the Pakistani capital. The police recently used teargas and...

MEANWHILE, OVER IN JAPAN.(increased numbers of crows in Tokyo)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Climate change is introducing new `pest' plagues It will be mosquitoes, and the viruses they carry, scientists predict, which will plague the populations of the South as their climates become hotter and wetter over the coming decades. But Tokyo, in a bizarre foretaste of how nature adapts...

D'OHBYA!(ineffective rhetoric from George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... A monthly roundup of George W Bush's recent words of wisdom `I say things because I believe them' `First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.' On the Kyoto treaty, in an interview, Washington Post,...