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Success of agroecology in Brazil, Cuba and Africa should be replicated in place of current support for intensive farming techniques

While BP is facing billion-dollar lawsuits in the US, another British company, Cairn Energy, is beginning drilling off the coast of Greenland

How a discontinued ferry service between Swansea and Cork was reborn when locals pooled money and resources...and bought their own ship

British companies accused of profiting from emissions trading scheme while consumers foot the bill

There are certain rules of thumb when it comes to storing, freezing and heating food in plastic containers. Read on to find out how to use plastics safely

More than 40,000 premature deaths could be prevented with healthier food rules including a ban on takeaways near schools and reduced salt and fat levels in processed foods

Chancellor George Osborne promises only to 'explore' proposals for bringing in a per-plane tax on the aviation industry

Sewing is activism, says John Paul Flintoff, as he takes us through the politics and pleasures of this long lost skill

PHOTO GALLERY: The Ecologist picks its top ten t-shirts made from organic cotton, hemp or recycled materials

Returning to age-old, chemical-free farming techniques is improving crop harvest for Malawian farmers

Nine new studies will look at the role of pesticides, habitat loss and disease in the decline of insect pollinators like the honeybee and bumblebee

Why wildlife corridors are the new reserves - and why colourful elephants are cropping up on London streets

How one Colombian community put wind turbines where they shouldn't have turned, water pumps where they shouldn't have worked, and planted a forest in soils thought long dead

Newspaper apologises for article that disputed 'peer-reviewed scientific evidence' that up to 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest is at risk from climate change

A blueprint for how Britain could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero over the next 20 years by a combination of electrification, insulation and a massive scaling up of offshore wind reports Tom Levitt