Disposing of e-waste is fast becoming big business and our 18-month undercover operation, the most thorough to date into the illegal underbelly of the trade, shows that the chance to make a quick profit at the expense of the developing world is too tempting for some to resist
Supermarkets in the UK are making significant strides to counter their impact on global warming but Asda has apparently turned its back on green commitments. The latest survey in our Chilling Facts series finds that 239 stores in the UK are now using climate-friendly refrigeration, up from just 14 two years ago
Participants in the International Tiger Forum are cautioned that they must act decisively now or face a future in which the wild tiger is extinct. We see it as an opportunity to commit to an unprecedented global pledge to save wild tigers, now numbering as few 3,200
A report examining three options to be considered by a Montreal Protocol meeting, each of which would produce greater emission reductions than those resulting from the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol or any near-term options being considered in the climate talks
A report naming two of the kingpins in Indonesia profiteering from the hugely lucrative international trade in stolen timber. Rogue Traders identifies businessmen Ricky Gunawan and Hengky Gosal as two of the major players in smuggling illicit merbau timber
Yahoo! Inc., via its Japanese subsidiary Yahoo! Japan, is an important corporate facilitator of the widespread commercial trade in trade in whale and dolphin products and African elephant ivory in Japan. Yahoo! Japan Shopping and Auction sites sell more than four hundred whale and dolphin products (through around 100 whale trading companies), and thousands of […]