Climate, energy and the environment

Investigation Climate change 14 article

Climate and the environment

Sofía Caruncho Llaguno , Lucía Gracey , Fiorella Montaño Pastrana , Anita Pouchard Serra , Barnaby Eales , Dominique Mesmin , Stefano Valentino , Alexandre Brutelle , Hanene Zbiss , Aïda Delpuech , Helena Rodríguez Gómez , Federica Rossi , Michele Calamaio , Davide Mancini , Raluca Besliu , Sara Manisera , Arianna Poletti , Kira Schacht Olga Ratmirova Alexander Yarashevich

Unveiling a few ways some people are harming the planet, more than often for the sake of profit.

Sacha Inchi and the biopiratery

Climate change

The sacha inchi craze: the other gold of the Incas, coveted by biopirates

By Sofía Caruncho Llaguno, Lucía Gracey, Fiorella Montaño Pastrana, Anita Pouchard Serra

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Agriculture

Fake medals and real profits: Europe’s wine award system under scrutiny

By Barnaby Eales, Dominique Mesmin

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Illegal forest clearance in the Gran Chaco as seen from the air in Argentina. Image by Jim Wickens, Ecostorm via Mighty Earth.

Agriculture

Europe’s stubborn addiction to deforested Argentinian soy

By Stefano Valentino

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Energy

How legal limbo allowed European oil companies to frack in Tunisia

By Alexandre Brutelle, Hanene Zbiss

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Ecology and biodiversity

Scrubbing the air, poisoning the sea: how “clean” shipping is destroying Mediterranean biodiversity

By Aïda Delpuech, Helena Rodríguez Gómez, Federica Rossi

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Ecology and biodiversity

How submarine cables are threatening the fragile ecosystem of the Mediterranean seabed

By Michele Calamaio

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Ecology and biodiversity

Is the EU going easy on the Croatian tuna conspiracy?

By Stefano Valentino

Area of experimental plantations of native species in Pedrogrão Grande, surrounded by eucalyptus plantations. The green-grey bushes are eucalyptus trees that are regrowing faster than other species. Grubbing them up is the only way to prevent them competing with the native species. | Photo: ©Davide Mancini

Agriculture

Portugal, wildfires and the eucalyptus curse

By Davide Mancini

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Ecology and biodiversity

Unravelling the thread: how illicit Ghanaian fish finds its way to Europe

By Raluca Besliu