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"We're a Small Island: The Greening of Intolerance"
Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 23:09

In the run-up to Britain's general election in May 2005, issues of immigration, refugees and asylum seekers remained at the top of the UK's political agenda.

WTO Decrees threaten environmental and public health laws
Monday, April 25, 2005 - 04:55

The European Commission is planning to join together with the US, Japan, and a number of other countries to use new World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations to dismantle a wide range of national l

EU ban on illegal US maize will have broad effects - possible new trade war in the offing
Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 02:45

The European Union has introduced emergency measures restricting the import of animal feeds from the United States.

Icelandic activists plead for international help to save ancient wilderness
Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 02:12

The Icelandic highlands are the last great expanse of true wilderness left in Western Europ

CEO tackles bogus environmental group
Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 07:53

In the first of a new series of in-depth articles on deceptive corporate lobbying and spin in EU capital Brussels, Amsterdam-based anti-corporate research and lobbying group Corporate Europe Observato

As climate change treaty comes into force, UK research group calls for change of approach
Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 09:28

As the Kyoto Protocol at last comes into force, UK-based research group The Corner House has published a statement on climate change which calls for a radical rethink of the way in which the huge envi

Demonstrate on February 12th against indifference to climate change
Friday, February 4, 2005 - 02:10

Why demonstrate? In February 2005 the world's first international agreement on emissions reductions comes into force (the Kyoto Protocol, subsequent to its ratification by Russia).