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Earth Overshoot Day – what to make of this moment of reckoning?

1 August 2018

Earth Overshoot Day is a hugely popular way to highlight our global environmental impact. Here are two views on it...
Members of the European Parliament, including German co-president of the Greens parliamentary group, Ska Keller (C), take part in a voting session on the 'Conservation of fishery resources and protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures' at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 16, 2018

Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now

19 January 2018

The growing use in Europe of trawl nets that stun fish with electricity has divided opinion. It should be scaled back and properly researched, says Lesley Evans Ogden

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