ecological footprint

Anyone can get involved in conserving biodiversity. Here are several ways to get started:
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responsibility for its victims

The risible compensation offered to the wounded British paratrooper Ben Parkinson - just £152,150 for losing both legs and suffering brain damage - reflects an age-old contradiction at the heart of militarism, which the poet Wilfred Owen recognised in his tragic poem Disabled.
In the poem, a disabled veteran sits alone in a park ‘legless, sewn [...]

human population

The regions of the planet undergoing the most severe environmental degradation are the same as those experiencing the most rapid human population growth. Ninety eight percent of the increase in population is taking place in developing countries, many of which are the same countries where Conservation International (CI) focuses its work to protect b
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World exclusive: free audio book

The First Post is giving readers the complete Charles Dickens classic Nicholas Nickleby in association with Naxos Audio Books.
Naxos Audio Books offer a superb and wide-ranging catalogue of both abridged and unabridged audio books, many now available for the first time.
Recordings have been produced to the highest technical specification to p
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conservation to combat climate change

In an ironic twist, 11 countries that have avoided widespread destruction of their tropical forest are at risk of being left out of an emerging carbon market intended to promote rainforest conservation to combat climate change.
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dirty war

While the west agonises over Darfur, another humanitarian and human rights disaster is brewing in the Horn of Africa.
In June, the Ethiopian government launched a major military campaign in the Ogaden, a sparsely populated and remote region on Ethiopia’s border with Somalia. The counter insurgency operation was aimed at eliminating the Ogaden Na
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How the Democrats blew it..?

How the Democrats blew it in eight months
Led by Democrats since the start of this year, the US Congress now has a “confidence” rating of 14 per cent, the lowest since Gallup started asking the question in 1973 and five points lower than what the Republican-controlled Congress scored last year.
The voters put the Democrats in [...]

Here be monsters

Monsters of all kinds star in Charlie White’s images. Whether they are murderers on trial or gremlin-like extra-terrestrials, White claims that his pictures manifest man’s most threatening inner demons. Doing so is a complicated business: actors are hired, monsters are created, sets are built and photographs are taken, layered an
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