In the latest from our colleagues at EIA-UK, a new report, Lost at Sea, calls on governments, industry, retailers, and consumers to help end the appalling damage that plastic waste inflicts on marine environments. The report details how global plastics production has grown from five million tons per year in the 1960s to 299 million […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Royal Dutch Shell announced today that they are abandoning further exploration for oil in the Arctic Ocean in Alaska after their first well in Burger Prospect within the Chukchi Sea produced “disappointing results.” Shell’s decision concludes a major gamble by the company that cost it more than $7 billion in lost investment, […]
In the latest from our colleagues at EIA-UK… BEIJING — The conviction and subsequent pardon of 155 Chinese nationals in July for illegal logging in Myanmar threw a spotlight on how massive volumes of timber stolen from the county’s precious frontier forests have been flowing unhindered into China for decades. The murky trade is worth hundreds […]
In January 2015, the Myanmar army raided an illegal logging operation in a remote mountainous region in the country’s Kachin State. The conviction and subsequent pardon of 155 Chinese nationals in July for illegal logging in Myanmar threw a spotlight on how massive volumes of timber stolen from the county’s precious frontier forests have been […]
On September 15, EIA and a coalition of environmental and human rights groups submitted a letter to the president of Colombia, Juan Santos, to express concern regarding the irregular accumulation of lands in Mapiripán, Meta for the purpose of oil palm expansion, and to request you take immediate action to protect land claimants whose lives […]
Illegal Logging in the Congo Basin Region: What do we know about it and how can the U.S. help? Beginning September 14, EIA’s partner, the Sierra Club, will be hosting a series of presentations across the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. (see full list of locations here) to discuss illegal logging in the Congo Basin […]