Articles by John Vidal
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‘Tip of the Iceberg’: Is Our Destruction of Animals and Nature Responsible for Covid-19?
John Vidal | The Guardian, Age of Extinction - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
18 Mar 2020 – As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics.
→ read full articleDurban Climate Deal Struck After Tense All-Night Session
John Vidal and Fiona Harvey in Durban – The Guardian,
12 Dec 2011
Talks came close to collapse when India insisted on concessions for developing countries, forcing 3am ‘huddle to save the planet’. A new global climate deal has been struck after being brought back from the brink of disaster by three powerful women politicians in a 20-minute “huddle to save the planet”.
→ read full articleGM Crops Promote Superweeds, Food Insecurity and Pesticides, Say NGOs
John Vidal, environment editor – The Guardian,
24 Oct 2011
Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of “superweeds”, according to a report by 20 Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups representing millions of people.
→ read full articleShell Accepts Liability for Two Oil Spills in Nigeria
John Vidal – The Guardian,
8 Aug 2011
Shell faces a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars after accepting full liability for two massive oil spills that devastated a Nigerian community of 69,000 people and may take at least 20 years to clean up. Experts who studied video footage of the spills at Bodo in Ogoniland say they could together be as large as the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, when 10m gallons of oil destroyed the remote coastline.
→ read full articleActivists Occupy Oil Rig in Fight to Prevent Arctic Drilling
John Vidal in Sarkoy, Turkey – The Guardian,
25 Apr 2011
The fight to stop the global oil industry exploring the pristine deep waters of the Arctic has been dubbed the new cold war, and early on Friday [22 Apr 2011] it escalated as environmental activists from 12 countries occupied the world’s second largest rig on its way from Turkey to Greenland to drill among the icebergs.
→ read full articleBolivia Enshrines Natural World’s Rights with Equal Status for Mother Earth
John Vidal in La Paz – The Guardian,
18 Apr 2011
Bolivia is set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth, now agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the country’s rich mineral deposits as “blessings” and is expected to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry.
→ read full articleWorld Feeling the Heat as 17 Countries Experience Record Temperatures
John Vidal, environment editor – The Guardian,
16 Aug 2010
2010 sees record highs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine but also many African, Middle Eastern and Latin American countries.
→ read full articleBILLIONAIRES AND MEGA-CORPORATIONS BEHIND IMMENSE LAND GRAB IN AFRICA
John Vidal – Mail & Guardian,
10 Mar 2010
20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era. We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon […]
→ read full articleONE QUARTER OF US GRAIN CROPS FED TO CARS – NOT PEOPLE, NEW FIGURES SHOW
John Vidal, environment editor – The Guardian,
22 Jan 2010
New analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies.One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched […]
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