This is an environmental justice conflict taking place in Montcada i Reixac, near Barcelona, with complaints from civil society organizations against the Lafarge cement factory (owned by Holcim). Lafarge Cementos is a cement company that acquired the factory that was first established in Montcada i Reixac in 1917. In 2007, [...]

Guatemala for almost twenty years is taking out an energy plan seeking for transition towards renewable hydroelectric energy. But this great plan is in the meantime leading to social conflicts and environmental destruction for the mere benefit of the large companies investing in the wmarket. This is the case of [...]

Between 17th and 22nd of June, Portugal saw one of the biggest tragedies happening in front of their eyes. Due to a thunder storm that sparked a fire in a forest, Portugal witnessed one of the biggest and deadliest fires in the history of the country. More than 60 people [...]

From 1991 to the present day the Amazon forest suffered a high degree of deforestation caused by the expansion of cities, large and small breeders and soybeans producers. The few populations escaping to the colonization of 1500 are likely to extinct due to uncontrolled deforestation. The Amazon Rainforest is considered [...]

Kiribati, a collection of 33 coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean is home for a bit more than 100 000 people. In average,  the island lies no higher than two meters above sea level, which means it is one of the countries that are the most vulnerable to rising [...]

In March 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef, causing the leak of tens of thousands tones of oil in the Gulf of Alaska. Ιt took only a few minutes to open a large hole in the single shell tanker and approximately 11 million gallons (40,000 tones) of oil [...]

Riska and Wahyu Yustinur decided to leave their home town, Samadria, Borneo two years ago. They get their children out of school and started a new life in Malmö. The Yustinur family had to flee due to the palm oil business. "The situation became critical in July 2015 and in [...]

A small Native American community living in Isle de Jean Charles in coastal Louisiana is to be resettled after losing nearly all its land. The island is inhabitated by Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, a Native American tribe living in the Louisiana coastal wetlands and has lost almost 98% of its land since the [...]

„Almost everyone returning to the Tatras for the first time after the windstorm has the same queasy reaction. The scale of destruction is difficult to describe; almost 13,000 hectares of forest were knocked down, about one-third of the total forest area in the mountains, with the belt of fallen trees [...]

The arrival of 2 alien intruders in the 1950s – the chainsaw and the caterpillar tractor – have perhaps made more impact than any other introduced species. Since then, the opening up of new roads has been a key factor changing Borneo. Roads not only provide access to commercially valuable [...]

“Invasive alien species (IAS) are the second most significant threat to biodiversity after habitat loss. They are also capable of causing significant damage to human health and to the economy. The cost of controlling invasive alien species and repairing the harm they do in the EU is estimated at €12 [...]

"If the bees disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."                                                                                                                       Albert Einstein Biodiversity, including cultural plants, should be considered one of the most important [...]

The brown bear is the largest European beast, the king of our forests, most commonly found in the High and Low Tatras, the Little and the Great Fatra and the Muráň Plain. According to the census of 2015, there are 1240 bears in Slovakia, which is too much according to [...]

The so-called Minamata disease, a type of mercury poisoning, took its name from the locus of the appearance of the first incidents in 1956 in the population of the wider area of Minamata Bay (Japan). Investigations to locate the source of mercury poisoning pointed to Chisso, a chemical factory operating [...]

Anticosti Island is situated in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the province of Quebec, Canada. Its long ridges that are located here are ten of most ecologically sensitive areas in St. Lawrence Gulf and are essential for the survival of aquatic organisms in the Atlantic Ocean. [...]

Teshima  je otok v celinskem morju Japonske, med otokoma Naoshima in Shodoshima, in je del Kagawa prefekture. Severni zahodni sektor otoka se šteje kot eden najhujših primerov nezakonitega odlaganja industrijskih odpadkov na Japonskem. Odpadki so bili pripeljani z ladjami, ki so plule mimo otokov in za sabo pustile okoli 600.000 [...]

The topic of this report will cover an environmental issue in the Douglas area which is located in Scotland. For about 20 years, the land has been a site of open coal mining, a method of extracting coal from the earth by first removing the overlying soil and rock, then [...]

Tana river Primate reserve was established in 1976 to protect the remaining forest and the two endemic primate species, Tana River Red Colobus and Tana River Mangabey, which live in the lower parts of the Tana River Forest. They are endangered by habitat loss and degradation, which has increased in [...]

The topic of this report will reveal the environmental injustice in Karoo, located in the Republic of South Africa. In this area, the hydraulic fracturing or fracking is being implemented. This is the procedure by which the shale gas is acquired. However the procedure is not as innocent as it [...]

Carteret Islands are a group of six tiny islands in Bouganville Autonomous Region in Papua New Guinea and are 86 km away from the main island, Bouganville. Having an area of 0.6 km² , an elevation of 1.2 meters above sea level at its highest point and a lack of [...]