Peatlands cover an estimated area of 400 million ha, equivalent to 3% of the Earth’s land surface. Wetlands clean and store water, provide unique habitat for many different species and wetland plants capture  CO2 which helps to reduce climate related problems caused by humans. In most European countries wetlands have [...]

Rail Baltic is an international rail connection, which vision to unite Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania with the rest of Europe, was already dated from the early 1990s [4]. By now, the route Tallinn-Pärnu-Riga- Panevėžys -Kaunas has been determined, but forward to Warsaw, there is a need to catch another train. [...]

The report “The poisoned island” by Marius Münstermann and Christian Werner draws attention to the resource-rich island of Marinduque. It shows how the mining industry destroys biodiversity and how it makes the environment and the people sick. Through the second half of the twentieth century copper, gold and silver were [...]

Before Myanmar became a democratically governed country, the previous dictatorial government concluded an agreement with the state’s Chinese Power Investment Corporation (CPI): the construction of the huge Myitsone Dam. [1] With an altitude of 152 metres and a capacity of 6000 MW of electricity, it was planned to be the [...]

Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world. It is part of the three countries Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and with its most northern extensions it reaches as far as the equator. [2] The Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation (LVFO) confirms on its website that the fishery on [...]

The lignite fields of Ptolemaida resemble a European version of the Grand Canyon, where in its depths, dozens of trucks can be spotted that continue to bring the coal to the ever-hungry power stations in the vicinity. At the end of the western field, you can see the village of [...]

Costa Rica was thought to be one of the “greenest” countries in the world, because of its high biodiversity and of the fact that it has the highest percentage of protected areas on the planet (25% of its surface), which makes many people call the country “a paradise on earth”. [...]

  The explosion of the oil mining platform of Deepwater Horizon on April 20, 2010, for unexplained yet causes, and the ecological disaster that followed in the Gulf of Mexico, was one of the most important environmental accidents of the last decade. This explosion killed 11 employees of the British [...]

Megalopoli is a town in Arcadia in the central Peloponnese, where large lignite deposits are found, the largest in Greece after Ptolemais. For decades there have been lignite mines that are currently supplying the Megalopoli Power Plant which has a total capacity of 850 MW and covers a significant part [...]

Kythira is an island located in southern Greece, south of the Peloponnese and south of Elafonisos and Cape Maleas. The wider region is a place of world-wide undersea and tourist interest. There is Pavlopetri, the ancient city, sunk a few meters below the surface, about 5 millenniums old, protected by [...]

Genetically modified soy began to be planted consistently in Argentina around 1996. According to the business chamber that represents producers of grains and cereals, (the Cámara de la Industria Aceitera-Centro de Exportadores de Cereales) in 1990, there were only 4.8 million hectares of soy while nowadays soy covers 31 million [...]

A mobile phone contains several metals and it contains microchips that use extremely hard and highly conductible elements. Starting from arouind 2000, for the production of microchips a compound of columbite and tantalite called coltan has been used. Coltan is a black mineral from which niobium and tantalum are extracted. [...]

According to the report Act Now or Pay Later: Protecting a billion people in climate-threatened coastal cities written by the British NGO Christian Aid and published in May 2016, not later than 2060 more than one billion people will experience coastal flooding because of a combination of factors such as [...]

El Quimbo is a hydroelectric power plant in the southern Colombian province of Huila and the second-largest facility of its kind in South America. It consists of a 151-metre high and 632 meters long concrete-faced rock fill dam on the Magdalena River . There is also an auxiliary dam of [...]

The Pontevedra river in Galicia (Spain) hosts two very polluting companies which have been dumping their waste into the river for many years: ENCE, a pulp mill and biomass energy producer and ELNOSA, a chemical company which produces chlorine-derivatives. There are 963,511 potentially affected people (local population of Pontevedra). These [...]

  La enormemente sobredimensionada cría porcina existente en la comarca de Osona produce un residuo en forma de purines que contamina gravemente los suelos y los acuíferos de toda la zona. El resultado es que más del 50% de las fuentes de agua de Osona están contaminadas por los nitratos provenientes [...]

Dragon's blood latex has been used since ancient times by indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin because of its anti-inflammatory and cicatrizing properties. It´s obtained from a variety of species of an Amazonian tree called Croton lechleri. In 1991 the pharmaceutical company called Shaman Pharmaceuticals Inc. came to the province [...]

The Cosmos cement plant was built in Córdoba in the 1930s. At the time it was far from the city, but as the city grew, residential neighborhoods were built around the cement plant. There are 300 potentially affected people that live in the surrounding area. There have been many protests [...]