Charles Clover



Profile:
Full name: Charles Clover (not to be confused with Charles Clover, FT foreign correspondent)

Area of interest: Environment

Journals/Organisation: The Sunday Times

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Website: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/columns/charlesclover

Blog: The End of the Line

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Networks: http://twitter.com/crhclover | http://www.linkedin.com/pub/charles-clover/13/562/844



Biography:
About: Freelance environmental journalist and author, currently a columnist for The Sunday Times, a director of The Fish Film Company and editor of a campaigning website, fish2fork

Education: Westminster School; University of York: English and Philosophy

Career: The Spectator: Editor; The Daily Telegraph: formerly responsible for environmental coverage at The Daily Telegraph for 20 years and founder of the Telegraph's Earth Channel (2007); The Sunday Times: columnist, July 2009–

Current position/role: Columnist


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Other roles/Main role: Editor of Fish2fork, Sustainable fish restaurant website and news channel about the oceans, 2009-

Other activities: Co-founder of the Agricultural Reform Group; Member of the Fisheries Reform Group; Founder and chairman of the Spitalfields Society - a civic society trying to rebuild the social and architectural fabric of the area; Trustee of Dedham Vale Society - dedicated to protecting the Dedham Vale area of outstanding natural beauty on the Essex/Suffolk border

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Broadcast media: Frequent contributor to BBC TV, Sky and BBC Radio news, including BBC2's Newsnight

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Awards/Honours: British Environment and Media’s National Journalist of the Year award, 1989, 1994 and 1996

Scoops:

Other: His father was a conventional farmer and his mother was an early member of the Soil Association



Books & Debate:

 * Highgrove: An Experiment in Organic Gardening and Farming OCLC 27172511, 1993 (with Charles, Prince of Wales)
 * Highgrove: Portrait of an Estate OCLC 248269512, 2002

Latest work: The End of the Line: How Over-fishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat OCLC 67383509, 2006. See: Underwater treasures - Documentary makers look for the next eco-blockbuster, The Economist, 22nd January 2009 and In video: The End of the Line - A new documentary looks at the dangers of the fishing industry, The Independent, 3rd June 2009

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Current debate:http://www.intelligencesquared.com/people/c/charles-clover 

The Sunday Times:
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Website: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/columns/charlesclover

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Articles: 2014

 * A corrupt clique of rulers keeps the north grotty to stay in power - IN A marbled hall of the majestic Cunard Building on Liverpool’s Pier Head, where first-class... - 22nd June
 * GM mosquitoes wouldn’t fly here, so don’t unleash them on Africa - The mozzies in our Essex village are enormous. No surprise, since it was known in the 17th century as a refuge of the ague, or malaria - 15th June
 * 200 councils went to mow, went to mow our wildflower havens - On the back road to the station the verges are rampant with cow parsley and dotted with campion and... - 1st June
 * Cut this crazy EU dragnet or our herring fishermen are lost - Steve Perham is the last of a line of herring fishermen stretching back 1,000 years - 25th May
 * Twisting in the wind: our right to fight blots on the landscape - They say the British side with the underdog. - 18th May
 * Between ban and frack-for-all is a way to share the shale bounty - Fracking seems to bring out the worst in people. At least it did last week when the recent... - 11th May
 * The peasants are revolting, and they’re armed with chewing gum - Constable country was looking lush and lovely last week, ready for the hordes that will descend on... - 4th May
 * We need to hatch a rescue plan before our Easter beasties hop it - The fable of a rabbit or hare bringing eggs for the children has a plausible origin in nature - 20th April
 * It’s an unwise Salmond who gets entangled in salmon nets - The River Ythan runs into the sea 14 miles north of Aberdeen in the constituency of Alex Salmond,... - 13th April
 * If not polar bears, maybe potholes will jolt the petrolheads awake - The roads around my way are telling us something - 6th April
 * Loot for landowners, green fields gone. And they call this localism? - It is my lot to take long journeys across the country - 30th March
 * Pay through the nose, go round the houses: our Sunday rail rip-off - It is the “service disruption” season - 23rd March
 * Nature is doing its utmost to help the insects. Pity we’re not - I don’t remember a brighter spring - 16th March
 * Tesco is wriggling out of its tuna pledge. Don’t let it off the hook - The whale shark is a gentle giant that migrates thousands of miles across the ocean, feeding on... - 9th March
 * Keep the planning rules, or Constable’s hay wain could be homeless - There is an old cart shed by the road as you drive off the dual carriageway into Constable country.... - 2nd March
 * As the waters recede, the true heroes and villains emerge - A great example to us all in this winter’s floods was Sue Chalkley, the Kent woman who protected... - 23rd February
 * ‘The government made us all wet’ and other myths of the flood - It was an emotional, stressful and frustrating week — not just for the damp folk in waders in the... - 16th February
 * Hold on, farmers, that’s your soil turning rivers into floods - As the dark clouds rolled in again last week, a friend sent me a video of the floodwater in... - 9th February
 * The answer to the Queen’s £5m fuel bill is lying in her back garden - The mausoleum where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are buried at Windsor is on the “at risk” register - 2nd February
 * Single spies they come, the wind turbines ravaging the land - A great friend has a house with lovely views over the Essex countryside - 26th January
 * One ship equals 7m cars. But the clean-up’s stuck in port - If you want to understand the dark side of global trade, take a look at the shipping industry - 19th January
 * Stop this hogwash: we’ve lived with flooded fields for centuries - The river in the valley I live in is full to the brim and has spilt over its banks onto the water... - 12th January



Articles: 2013

 * The wheelie bin is a disgrace — cart it off to landfill now - Let us celebrate the people who take stuff away after celebrations - 29th December
 * Greedy farmers a-milking it, no turtle doves and no partridge either - It is odd that we sing about turtle doves at Christmas - 15th December
 * The cartoon that could just save the coral and fish of the deep - The deep sea has almost no light and very low temperatures - 8th December
 * HS2 is a done deal — so this is where the real fight begins - The village of Hints in south Staffordshire is no stranger to infrastructure projects — indeed it owes its name to one: Watling Street, the Roman road from Dover to Holyhead, parts of which are still in use today - 1st December
 * Rehouse the nightingale and every critter’s home is at risk - The nightingale has curious taste in trees - 24th November
 * A little blackmail by the big six and lower energy bills are toast - My dictionary says a “cartel” is a “collusive association of international enterprises formed to monopolise production and distribution of a product or service, control prices, etc” - 17th November
 * What a pig’s ear: mega-farms are putting human health at risk - It’s pork for lunch. I am cooking it, but my wife bought it, and this involved a discussion about what to buy - 10th November
 * The harder the wind blows, the faster the rail authorities go out to lunch - Like other people who intended to get into London last Monday, I was told by the bulletins that there were no trains until 9am - 3rd November
 * Villages wither as the rich play I’m a celebrity, gate me out of here - Every morning I pass a large Victorian house on a country road here in Constable country - 27th October
 * Stargazers and burglars line up in the battle for the night sky - Opponents told those of us living in the dark-at-night, low-crime countryside that it would never happen. Now they are surprised that it has - 13th October
 * A new kind of dark satanic mill threatens the land – solar farms - In the summer my wife and I spent a day exploring the ancient farmed landscape of the Marshwood Vale in Dorset. The vale has Neolithic hill forts, wildflower meadows, sweeping views and the church of Whitchurch Canonicorum, which still contains the relics of its own saint - 6th October
 * The sea bass is off today, sir. Those French have wolfed it all - The wild sea bass has a double value compared with other fish caught around the British coast - 29th September
 * Mother Nature’s great autumn offer: pick one, get it free - It came upon us slowly, this sense of a prodigious wild harvest - 22nd September
 * Geroff our land, minister – we like national parks as they are - What I am about to say about Nick Boles, the planning minister, should not eclipse the fact that he is an intelligent and interesting man, writes beautifully and is, in my experience, good at his job - 15th September
 * The Square Mile autocrats spare no one with their death ray - I once worked for an editor whose simple maxim was to avoid making mistakes... - 8th September
 * That bang is an explosion of common sense as badger takes the hit - As people are saying in a different context, you can never predict what happens when the shooting begins - 1st September
 * We need farmed fish. They just can’t go anywhere near the sea - Picture a jetty at the end of a single-track road through one of the most breathtaking landscapes in Scotland, with a view of mountains and islands across a shimmering sea - 25th August
 * The west’s wildest festival site, lost in centuries of bad forestry - On the Scottish island of Mull this summer we squelched about 300 yards along a boggy firebreak - 18th August
 * Zombies roam our cities, Mr Pickles. Here’s how you skewer them - It is zombie summer on TV. The Returned, a French drama about the undead - 28th July
 * Trout gasping, rails buckling, but have you tasted the strawbs? - They say it’s a heatwave. From where I sit in Essex in a north-facing room with cool air round my shorts, I have a problem with that - 21st July
 * The one that didn’t get away: small fishermen net a little justice - It is a tangled story, how the allocation of fishing came to be so unequally divided between fishermen - 14th July
 * Bad news for ice-cream vans, good news for butterflies - As I write this, temperatures in parts of Britain are beginning to climb into the high twenties - 7th July
 * Dead ahead, a plague of zombie trawlers sucking life from the sea - I am back from a holiday in a caravan on the Ayrshire coast with amazing views... - 30th June
 * Be honest, minister: GM’s not about food. It’s about money - You have to admire Owen Paterson’s fearless way of doing business - 23rd June
 * Baa humbug, this plan to ship off our sheep is shear madness - Consider a sheep. What associations does the image conjure up? Mint sauce and peas? - 2nd June
 * Shut that cat flap: just one of the easy solutions eco-moaners ignore - Last week I was caught in a battle between hope and despair - 26th May
 * Ah, Constable country ... but who put that 9ft orange pole there? - I had a nightmare that rows of orange and white fluorescent poles were spreading triffid-like - 19th May
 * I’m not buzzing about this ban. What bees need is more flowers - Can we reverse the decline of our bees? - 12th May
 * A new breed of action hero cleans up at the Green Oscars - Twenty years ago a young man had a great idea that has touched many people’s lives — including my own - 28th April
 * If only we still had Thatcher, the scientist and mother of cleaner energy - I sometimes drive to the station past the building where Margaret Thatcher worked - 21st April
 * Save our seas, step 1: convince the regulars at the Crown and Anchor - 14th April
 * What the energy giants don’t want you to know about cutting bills - It was snowing. A bitter wind was rattling the door of our larder and I was wondering how much extra this unseasonal cold spell would add to our old house’s annual heating bills - 7th April
 * Cut through the Brussels deadwood before it kills our trees - Fourteen years ago, Edward Stenhouse started a successful business by finding new uses for the sweet chestnut, a tree that arrived from the Asian part of Turkey with the Romans - 31st March
 * Lazy councils are surrendering the countryside to spivs - Right now, in the Cotswolds, it’s open season for developers - 24th March
 * Cameron has a green streak he’s desperate to hide from his party - Cast your mind back to 2006, when David Cameron staged a memorable photoshoot with huskies in the Arctic, launching the rebranding of the Conservatives as the nice-not-nasty party that cared about such floating-voter worries as climate change - 17th March
 * The lights are going out across Britain, and we’re in heaven - If I am totally honest, I always thought I was on a loser complaining about light pollution - 10th March
 * Farming’s future: the corky-fruited water dropwort - Anne Robertson’s farm in the Marshwood Vale, west Dorset, has the same boundaries as it had in the 1200s. It is overlooked by reminders that farming dates back to an even earlier time - 24th February
 * Brussels makes a hash of the meat paper trail - I’m fresh out of horsemeat jokes - 17th February
 * A big cheer for the fish vote, but let’s not go overboard - The popular revolt over our fish gathers force - 10th February
 * The Green Deal is born with a sickly hue - When there is snow on the roofs, I play a game: spot the houses with little insulation - 27th January
 * Woah — next time it could be chimp curry - In a week of momentous events I gave thanks to Ireland for a few moments of mirth - 20th January
 * Hold fire — only cunning will win the mackerel war - We are entering the fifth year of the “mackerel war” that rages in the north Atlantic over the fish that is, for now, Britain’s most valuable catch - 13th January



Articles: 2012

 * Relief for fish as the scales fall from MEPs’ eyes - There was hollering, whooping and yelling — as in an American election — when radical changes to Europe’s derided common fisheries policy were voted through last Tuesday - 23rd December 2012
 * How Greenpeace drew first blood in the Arctic war - You sometimes wonder whether environmentalists think through the implications of what they are doing - 16th December
 * Hot air in Qatar will only melt the ice caps - Talk about an unintended joke: the annual United Nations talks about climate change last week took place in Doha, Qatar, where people burn more fossil fuel per head than anywhere else in the world - 9th December
 * Get off our lovely, crowded land, Boles the builder - Kerwumph! Here among the defenders of Constable country — I chair the society that saw off an attempt to make Dedham village a new town in 1965 — it has been all quiet - 2nd December
 * Brussels aims its bow at the poor Cockney sparrow - In Paris the other day I went for a walk in the Tuileries garden by the Louvre. What I saw there surprised me more than the monstrous pieces of public art and the all-year-round queuing tourists. It was a house sparrow - 25th November
 * Minister, please save us from this useless Water bill - One day soon, if you live in England or Wales, you may wake up to a rise in your water bill of up to £40 - 18th November
 * Spore wars: our global battle with killer fungi - I found ash dieback disease had arrived where I live in Essex when a reporter from a local paper rang to ask if I knew where the outbreak was. The Forestry Commission wouldn’t tell him - 11th November
 * Vaccine or virus? We must act on ash Wednesday - When Dutch elm disease killed 20m trees in the early 1970s the official view was that the strain of fungus that had reappeared was so aggressive that nothing could be done. Today, as our ash trees face a potentially greater threat, we should remember that not everyone accepted that view - 4th November
 * I see a white flag on the minister’s housing bulldozer - If your faith in this government has been knocked, prepare for it to be knocked again - 27th October
 * This victim says: more power to your elbow, PM - Energyshambles. Downing Street in retreat. Energy policy in chaos - 21st October
 * The guns of old England march into the sunset - Short autumn days never make me sad. I am one of those people who associate golden leaves and shafts of yellow light with salmon coursing up rivers and the prospect of partridge and pheasant to shoot — provided some kind soul invites me to take part - 14th October
 * Big beasts rally to Ice Station Underdog - Two of the most shocking findings of the past 30 years about what mankind has done to the planet were brought to us by the scientists of the British Antarctic Survey - 7th October
 * A dash for gas alone will put out the lights - You read it here first. Fracking, the extraction of natural gas directly from shale rock rather than via oil and gas wells, has slashed electricity prices in the United States and is challenging thinking about how to light and heat homes in the rest of the world, including Britain - 30th September
 * If you want your breakfast pinta, Brock must die - There are times when I have doubted whether the government had the nerve for a badger cull - 23rd September
 * Insulate now, before the EU gets in your loft - If you want to reduce pollution, in theory you should tax it - 16th September
 * Dirty secrets down on the salmon farm - You have to credit the people who sell Scottish farmed salmon. They deserve their awards — for marketing - 9th September
 * A bad idea whose time has come: blot out the sun - Disturbing records were set in the Arctic this summer - 2nd September
 * Unproven science swells behind the Severn barrage - If you wanted to understand how the anti-apartheid campaign was won you might call in Peter Hain MP - 26th August
 * All hands on deck, scallop pirates ahead - High winds, unusual wildlife and illegal goings-on at sea — it’s been an eventful few weeks in Lyme Bay on the Dorset/Devon border - 19th August
 * A radioactive Cinderella is our super-fuel future - There is a new book I have been reading with a mixture of suspicion and fascination. It is about an alternative nuclear fuel... - 29th July
 * There’s a drop of dying countryside in every pinta - Those still producing milk say this is the worst crisis they have known - 22nd July
 * A flood of facts to overwhelm climate sceptics - Getting drenched in a downpour on a Welsh riverbank last week — the one exciting thing about all this rain is that the salmon run early - 15th July
 * That buzzing is GM mosquitoes heading our way - Knowing that European consumers and supermarkets have consistently rejected all attempts to foist genetically modified crops on them, I was surprised to discover last week that Brussels was preparing the ground for the introduction of genetically modified animals - 8th July
 * Bobbing up in Lyme Bay: the way to save fish - You are told in the newspaper business to be a bystander, lest your objectivity be compromised - 1st July
 * Hark, an upbeat note amid the fumbling in Rio - I finally drummed up the fare to the Rio Earth summit and then found I couldn’t go - 24th June
 * Once again, the US blows Rio out of the water - Times have changed but they also seem to have come full circle - 17th June
 * Shrill voices of protection put rare birds at risk - One of the delights of the house we go to in the Hebrides each year is the sight of the buzzards that soar on an updraught above the steep, wooded cliff behind the house and mew loudly - 10th June
 * The left is having a wrecking ball in Ringo’s street - I wish I didn’t have to write about this again. But I have learnt enough about the business of holding politicians to account to know that sometimes, as ministers come and go and bureaucrats and quango chiefs take early retirement, we scribblers have to embody the folk memory about certain subjects - 3rd June
 * No mercy for mink as we hail Ratty’s return - It was a squelchy evening last week in the little river valley where I go to fish for trout and I had been watching a fluffed-up water vole... - 20th May
 * Sinking fast – our hopes for marine reserves - It seems extraordinary that when Britain decided to set up a network of marine protected areas around its coasts, people did not take a long, hard look at what had worked well on land - 13th May
 * The tendrils of GM inch in by the back door - I have a confession to make. In many years of trying to understand genetic engineering and the revolution that has flowed from the discovery of how DNA works, I still haven’t entirely grasped how you stick a gene into a tomato - 6th May
 * Leaky thinking is parching our once-wet land - As we pulled up our collars and strode into the rainy streets of London last week, a colleague muttered, “Wettest drought ever.” - 29th April
 * This shale rage is threatening to put out the lights - It is a noble ambition that we should light and heat our homes and businesses using the bountiful energy produced by the sun, the wind, the waves and the heat contained inside our planet - 22nd April
 * A painless way to offload your guilty green secret - I had a nasty shock last week. Our condensing boiler has been on the blink. It was the greenest thing on the planet when we installed it 14 years ago... - 15th April
 * Your perfect roses might be killing bees - If you are considering a spot of gardening this weekend, or a trip to the garden centre, my advice is: don’t — until you have read this, at least - 8th April
 * Save the green belt: cut Vat on home repairs - I have avoided eating hot pasties since I got the wobbles from one I bought at Waterloo station - 1st April



Articles: 2011

 * Stop shrinking all the gardens - If this government really wants to become the greenest ever then it should ignore Nimbys and encourage the expansion of gardens - 9th October
 * Ah, that fluffy grey squirrel is costing us £1bn - Invasive species of animals and plants are the second-greatest threat to wildlife on earth, bodies such as Natural England warn - 2nd October
 * Easing the energy crisis with a bit of Blackpool rock - Amid the chaos of global economics, the discovery of vast reserves of shale gas under Blackpool is great news for Britain - 25th September
 * Bodger Greg’s planning rules are crumbling - Constituency boundary changes mean that MPs are likely to be much more sensitive to local concerns than they are to the party line - 18th September
 * One nod buries the village that refused to die - Great Ryburgh, saved by its inhabitants, must now fight through another blow to save eight acres of meadow from development - 11th September
 * They’ve pumped out piffle about our ‘clean’ rivers - Water privatisation has brought about improvements but many of our finest waterways remain blighted, despite what the The Environment Agency says - 4th September
 * save the pink fairy armadillo – ask why later'' - The argument for keeping beauty and wonder in the world is fragile, not least because we haven’t found all the species there are - 28th August
 * burst of petal power to give our bees a boost'' - Bees and other pollinating insects, which depend on nectar from flower-rich countryside, add £430m a year to the economy - 21st August
 * EU rules are toxic to our tasty scallops'' - The new rules on selling scallops dead rather than alive are an insult to common sense and a triumph for The Scallop Association - 14th August
 * gun’s loaded but is it really the end for Badger?'' - The possum poisoners and seal killers may yet turn out to be right as the fight to tackle bovine tuberculosis steps up a gear - 24th July
 * fast and we can clean up the Fifa of whaling'' - The International Whaling Committee’s national delegates make football’s global governing body look a model of judicial probity - 10th July
 * softly, the residents rise to fight the bulldozer'' - Let down by consecutive governments, it is now up to Liverpool's leaders to find a way of breathing life into the Victorian suburbs - 3rd July
 * EU disease — scrapping a sane farm subsidy'' - There is a danger that if you stop paying farmers to protect rare birds, you will wipe out decades of conservation work - 26th June
 * England dumps its green dreams in landfill'' - It is no longer every Englishman's right to have the remains of his chicken tikka masala collected weekly after the coalition's U-turn - 19th June
 * green dream smothered by gardeners’ peat'' - Phasing-out the use of peat is a near perfect green policy with multiple benefits but governments and Europe have failed to act - 12th June
 * chancellor, that skylark is worth £30 billion'' - The birds and the bees are often undervalued because there is a tendency to focus on the market value of resources we can use and sell - 5th June
 * Mr Cameron — reel in Salmond with mackerel'' - If David Cameron acts now to secure the future of Scotland's fishing industry, he may net support for the union too - 15th May
 * we shoot the carthorse? Click, you decide'' - MyFarm, backed by the National Trust, is an online experiment aiming to give people back a sense of involvement in food production - 8th May
 * billions on the fantasy of wind power'' - We have to give up the green mantra that the only way to cut our carbon emissions is renewable energy. The fastest way is to burn gas - 17th April
 * old WWF panda has got awfully arthritic'' - The bleak reality is that the battle to save the world’s wildlife is being lost every day, despite conservationists’ best efforts - 10th April
 * needs a rethink'' - The American Prairie Foundation has an inspiring answer to the question of what room there will be left for nature in 2050 - 3rd April
 * away, you spivs, and show Osborne his folly'' - George Osborne’s budget speech last week was notable for the myths it perpetuated, and for the danger it poses to the rural environment - 27th March
 * nuclear confidence goes into meltdown'' - We may not have earthquakes like Japan’s, but with the possibility of obtaining all our energy from renewable sources, is nuclear worth the risk? - 20th March
 * this quango is an eco-disaster'' - The coalition is in a mess over advice from experts having given the impression that it doesn’t see the need for any - 13th March
 * little bait can end the scandal of wasted fish'' - The revulsion of fishing industry discards, as highlighted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, may have forced a big change in thinking in Europe - 6th March
 * up a natural beauty at 250mph'' - It’s Birmingham or bust for Philip Hammond, who must today convince us a limited high speed rail link money well spent - 27th February
 * done, now our forests really are in jeopardy'' - We need to create a new vision for our woodlands — if they go back to being run by a state industry, the battle is lost - 20th February
 * a pint of Old Tax Cut will revive us all'' - Gordon Brown really stuffed the pubs, but George Osborne could revive them to help bring a slightly sozzled nation back on board - 12th February
 * Down go the forest sale disaster myths'' - The disturbing thing is that the celebrities and politicians seem to know so little about the history of state-owned forestry in Britain - 6th February
 * have all been betrayed to the planning muggers'' - Does localism mean power to the people, which the coalition advocated when in opposition, or does it mean power to local businessmen? - 23rd January
 * hypocrisy — celebrity chefs’ dish of the day'' - Are celebrity chefs the solution or the problem, when it comes to our urge to strip every living creature from the sea and serve it up on a plate? - 16th January
 * with filthy lucre, rail chiefs foul our tracks'' - If you dropped raw sewage on the road you'd find yourself facing stiff fines. So why are there slicks of raw sewage all over the rail network? - 9th January
 * our cash leaking from Ulster’s pipes'' - Northern Ireland has more rainfall than most of the UK and it gets its water from a lake that is full at this time of year, so how did it run out of water? - 2nd January



Articles: 2010

 * news — electricity bills are on the rise'' - The rise is not just because of the price of fossil fuels, but because, by 2020, 31% of the price of electricity will consist of policy-driven charges - 19th December
 * Jaws in the eye — he’s not such a monster'' - The paradox is that we are attracted by sharks as last symbols of wilderness, but our new-found blue-green correctness is skin-deep - 12th December
 * small taste of revenge against the tuna mafia'' - When it comes to what happens in the oceans, EU politicia
 * whale is stuck, so let’s talk about trees'' - There is cause for optimism on climate change legislation. Expectations are so low that politicians feel able to aim for modest achievements - 28th November
 * little nudge in our cars can save a fortune in fuel'' - Most drivers are willing to drive more fluidly and economically if they are nudged into doing it in a helpful, non-preachy way - 21st November
 * safety con lurking under the street lights'' - The assumption that splashing lots of light about at night deters crime and prevents road accidents is only partially true - 14th November
 * scalping of Scotland in the scallop war'' - If you worry about the destruction caused by harvesting scallops, you will be heartened by how the Isle of Man won its scallop war with Scotland - 7th November
 * a deal. But what does it mean?'' - As a response to the species extinctions we face, Nagoya is still no more than a tentative brush with a branch as our boat careers towards the rapids - 31st October
 * rising — the oil firms’ toxic secret'' - It is quite conceivable that the oil and gas industry produces as much mercury as the world’s coal-fired power stations - 24th October
 * issue few dare confront: population control'' - Environmental thinkers have long argued that a growing human population is one of the main reasons for the erosion of natural diversity - 17th October
 * energy mess letting solar spivs into your home'' - The idea of selling us energy 'services' rather than just energy is an idea whose time should have come years ago - 10th October
 * nature lesson for us all from the veldt visionaries'' - About 210 rhinos have been killed by poachers in South Africa this year — Rhino horn is now more valuable by weight than gold - 3rd October
 * Frankenfish is feeding us a monstrous folly'' - Will the people who complain about GM one day be seen in the same light as those Luddites who smashed automated looms? - 26th September
 * the Beatles can stop the bulldozers now'' - The saving of Madryn Street, birthplace of Ringo Starr, could signal the beginning of the end for a brutal and insensitive policy of demolition - 11th September
 * are the fall guys for vanishing hedges'' - It is only the European Union’s rural development funds that have prevented Britain's loss of biodiversity from being worse - 5th September
 * recycling policy goes up in flames'' - You have only to go on holiday in a different part of Britain to realise that rubbish recycling is in a state of anarchy - 29th August
 * real green heroes dwarf Prince Preachy'' - Individuals make a difference and the reality is that dedicated rich individuals can make more of a difference than dedicated poor ones - 22nd August
 * hazards back on the road improves traffic'' - If you take away traffic lights and introduce risk by making it clear that pedestrians share their space, motorists instantly behave better - 1st August
 * few home truths about that new paint on your wall'' - The paint that is in every day usage around the country is both out of date and harmful to the environment. An overhaul is essential - 18th July
 * green way to revive towns hit by Prescott’s blitz'' - Edge Lane’s elegant Victorian houses will now be bulldozed to be replaced by new homes of a shockingly mediocre design - 11th July
 * power firms set on keeping us in the dark'' - If smart people can't work out how much they are paying for gas and electricity, what hope is there for everyone else? - 4th July
 * the whale — slap sanctions on Sony and Toyota'' - The next time Japan doesn’t abide by the spirit of the whaling moratorium, its companies should be punished - 27th June
 * and shame may scupper Japan’s whalers'' - I confidently predict that it will affect its standing in international negotiations for years — no wonder Japan is madly denying it - 20th June
 * mackerel war has started in Cornwall'' - The generous mackerel will oblige anglers, provide a delight on the barbecue and a lump of cash for commercial fishermen - 13th June
 * Charles, the people’s streetfighter'' - My advice to anyone with anything horrible planned to be built for their back yard would be to write to the Prince of Wales - 6th June
 * countryside withers as bees buzz into town'' - there are now more bumblebee nests in cities, towns and suburbs than there are in the countryside. This is not good news for wildlife - 30th May
 * march straight through a green dream'' - Green ambitions are all very well; it’s paying for them that hurts - 23rd May
 * green bill catches oil-covered wave'' - Come Tuesday, we can expect to hear US senators asking many questions about the realities of deep water exploration - 9th May
 * different attitude to travel'' - Precaution is generally wise when dealing with nature. It doesn’t pay to poke it, as it is ultimately bigger than us - 25th April
 * litter has just got a lot messier for you'' - If we don't want Britain to look like a dump, then it's down to us to stop the slovenliness of our fellow citizens - 4th April
 * toothless West watches as Japan guts fish stocks'' - Somewhere along the line we have lost the understanding that science, not politics, should determine the common good - 28th March
 * death sentence for the bluefin'' - Their victory raises the question of whether rationality can ever prevail in preventing endangered species from being obliterated - 21st March (see : Briefing: Trouble in Tokyo)
 * of green warms to eco-sceptics'' - I couldn’t help wrestling with the irony that James Lovelock was actively cheering on those who would knock science from its pedestal - 14th March
 * first sound of spring is illegal bird slaughter'' - Tests of marksmanship include eagles, harriers, ospreys and honey buzzards. Even flamingos are regularly shot - 7th March
 * off the big polluters works'' - The EU’s emissions trading scheme is cutting emissions significantly below the levels they would otherwise have reached - 28th February
 * are being bulldozed and no one listens'' - In a country where housing is in short supply, good houses are being knocked down and not replaced at public expense - 21st February
 * trust these bright sparks to keep our lights on'' - You wonder why Ofgem couldn’t have told us a bit earlier that we could be running out of gas - 14th February
 * Food Inc should make us all retch'' - There are signs that the downside of super-efficient, globalised agriculture is coming our way - 7th February
 * tormented eel is slithering out of existence'' - It seems as if we are beginning at last to value this extraordinary fish just as it may be about to disappear - 31st January
 * science is seeping into the climate watchdog'' - The drip, drip of error gives ammunition to even the most scientifically illiterate Republican who wants to talk down Obama’s climate bill - 24th January
 * the pub or let it die? You decide'' - A crackdown on supermarkets advertising cheap alcohol could turn back the clock and draw people to more civilised drinking - 10th January
 * thief – the night sky is a great jewel'' - We are losing part of our heritage. The night sky is an amazing spectacle that 90% of the population doesn’t get to see - 3rd January



Articles: 2009

 * can build his green legacy on coral reefs'' - Labour has the opportunity to create a legacy as great as Yellowstone national park, but can they pull it off? - 27th December
 * US and China leave us in a world of trouble'' - It’s a new world and you can’t fix the deals the way the big players used to - 20th December
 * climate change's evil twin'' - Ocean acidification has been quite scandalously left out of the reckoning in the past few weeks - 13th December
 * how to gauge success at Copenhagen'' - Carbon trading may have its drawbacks but it is one of the few things to have cut greenhouse gases since the world first promised to do so in 1992 - 6th December
 * out the high priests of climate change'' - It is up to the scientific establishment to set out better ground rules and insist on more openness - 29th November
 * of deceit drives Labour’s green energy plan'' - It looks as if, just before the Copenhagen climate conference, Labour is at last doing something aggressive about climate change - 22nd November
 * vanish as their protectors samba'' - Those who are setting catch limits for Atlantic fish belong to the most dysfunctional environmental organisation on earth - 15th November
 * wonder food to be taken with a pinch of salt'' - Hunger, poverty and nutritional problems in the developing world can’t be fixed by growing commodity crops. What is needed are better diets - 8th November
 * needn’t mean murder to the planet'' - It felt like a political act to order an English breakfast last week after Lord Stern of Brentford’s remarks about a vegetarian diet - 1st November
 * modern moral dilemma: ordering fish'' - Is it really so outrageous to ask where our food comes from or to rate restaurateurs who give you that information? - 18th October
 * bodges green homes'' - Why is it that the government has been so slow on energy-efficient homes given its constant preaching on climate change? - 11th October
 * minister – a lynx is not just for conference'' - What on earth was Hilary Benn doing suggesting the reintroduction of such species as the lynx to built-up, crowded, congested England? - 4th October
 * sudden whiff of optimism amid the CO2 in the air'' - What matters most at Copenhagen is the inclusion once again of the United States in a global effort to tackle climate change - 27th September
 * King Johns trample over Magna Carta'' - Thanks to Magna Carta, citizens may take their governments to court if they believe they have misapplied the law in Britain but not in the EU - 20th September 2009
 * cutting CO2 before Captain Bonkers does'' - Personal responsibility does come into it when we are talking about climate change and many of us have been ducking that for too long - 6th September 2009
 * thinking behind the new lightbulb laws'' - Why bleat that in tests people can't tell the difference between the light of a new fluorescent bulb and an incandescent one? The fact is that many people can - 30th August 2009
 * a pair of shears to the green advisers'' - We can no longer afford to pay for non-governmental organisations within the government - 16th August 2009
 * exposes EU guilt in a fishing disaster'' - The irony underlying Sarkozy’s conversion is that it is France’s fishing fleet that is principally responsible for over-fishing the giant bluefin - 19th July 2009
 * mother nature with our creed'' - It is surprising that Britain has got as far as it has in considering a scheme to cause state-funded environmental damage - 5th July 2009
 * just put fishing in more peril, M’lud'' - Cornwall’s isolated position still means it has its modern equivalents of smugglers and excise men - 28th June 2009



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Articles:

 * is the blue whale of our time'' - The Atlantic bluefin tuna is a dark, steel-blue teardrop of a fish which migrates across whole oceans and can swim at speeds of up to 45mph. This top-level predator's only problem is that its flesh is one of the most delicious things on earth, eaten raw as sushi or sashimi, The Independent, 3rd June 2009 (See: Revealed: the bid to corner world's bluefin tuna market)
 * evidence battles with belief'' - The balance of evidence does strongly suggest that humanity's activities are leading to changes in our climate, despite the extreme rhetoric on both sides of the debate - 13th February
 * Britain: Cold snap leaves birds on thin ice'' - advice on how to help birds which are struggling in the snowy weather - 6th February 2009
 * is the time to think big about man-made climate change'' - If we want to halt global warming, we should expect surprises - 30th January 2009
 * for compliments'' - There were times during the making of our film, The End of the Line, when I have felt that someone up there was looking after us - 23rd January 2009
 * pirates of Newlyn caught in law's net'' - Newlyn fishermen fooled themselves that quota rules were unworkable and so it was morally acceptable to break them - 9th January 2009
 * the fire sales of March'' - Our cash-strapped Government may be tempted to flog the forestry commission, but at what cost to the environment - 2nd January 2009
 * are second-class citizens now'' - Many of us have dreamed of becoming farmers. Well dream on - 19th December 2008
 * security matters after all'' - For years those who argued that it was important food was farmed in Britain were ridiculed. The Government is now changing its tune - 12th December 2008
 * should let the US car industry die'' - The American car industry, like its banks, is an example of the failure of government regulation. Now it's time for a reckoning - 5th December 2008
 * bluefin tuna: too valuable to save'' - The body that presides over the large fish of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic has decided to allow the magnificent bluefin tuna to continue being hunted to extinction - 28th November 2008
 * visit to Farne Island is no surprise'' - It is entirely believable that an otter has swum from the mainland of Northumberland to the Farne Islands, which start about a mile and a half off the coast - 22nd November 2008
 * the house sparrow trail'' - The fall of the house sparrow is a mystery that is at last beginning to unravel - 21st November 2008
 * - nothing to panic about'' - Every week for five years an email has dropped into my mailbox raising awful fears about "nanotechnology" - 14th November 2008
 * Obama faces a daunting task on the environment'' - It is too early to conclude that Barack Obama’s election to the White House represents America’s return to the international fold on the environment and climate change - 7th November 2008
 * crisis sees return of simple pleasures'' - Simple, homely pleasures enable us to rediscover our real, non-monetery values and take confidence from our own resourcefulness - 30th October 2008
 * Palin: her clothes, her shoes and her odd attitude to facts'' - on Sarah Palin's 'facts' that relate to endangered species, an oil pipeline, climate change and Alaska's contribution to the US energy supply - 23rd October 2008
 * 25 years ahead of EU on fish conservation '' - environmental groups have challenged the executive when it breaches its legal obligation to conserve fish - 17th October 2008
 * Miliband truly has his work cut out'' - there's something preposterous about creating a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change - 10th October 2008
 * from the financial crisis'' - How can the financial crisis help us tackle environmental problems such as man-made climate change - 3rd October 2008
 * the price of sea eagles'' - Protecting endangered species and areas of natural beauty can have considerable financial benefits - 26th September 2008
 * to be cheerful during credit crunch'' - A little research uncovers plently of reasons to be cheerful despite the current economic crisis - 19th September 2008
 * trial embarrasses Brown'' - Collapse of the case against Greenpeace activists for causing criminal damage is embarrassing to the Brown Government - 12th September 2008
 * Palin, enemy of the greens'' - Ms Palin's extreme anti-conservation stance may prove to be John McCain's Achilles heel - 5th September 2008
 * John Prescott know he was right?'' - Britain's population could exceed 77 million in fifty years. We will must plan for the future - 29th August 2008
 * year for British truffles'' - It is a bumper year for the English truffle, or so we are told by people in the know - 8th August 2008

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