Al Jazeera English
| Feb 29, 2012
Fishermen in Malaysia say the increased presence of foreign cargo ships is destroying coral reefs at an alarming rate, causing a severe shortage of game for the locals. Shipping companies have found it to be less costly and more beneficial to kee...
Associated Press
| Feb 28, 2012
The manager at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant said it was still vulnerable, nearly a year after a tsunami crippled the facility. A report made public Tuesday found the government had withheld the potential dangers of the disaster.
Associated Press
| Feb 23, 2012
Apa Sherpa, an expert mountain climber from Nepal who has conquered Everest 21 times, says hundreds of glacial lakes, formed high in the Himalayas, are close to bursting. The result could be an environmental disaster for mountain villages.
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 15, 2012
Environmental activists want Malaysia to stop building 12 more hydroelectric dams. The government says the dams are crucial for generating much needed power. However, critics say existing dams already produce more than enough electricity. Al Jaze...
LinkAsia
| Feb 14, 2012
China's largest freshwater lake is drying up. In danger are the migratory birds that depend on the lake, and the world's only freshwater porpoise. Experts blame a prolonged drought, and the local economy is suffering a major blow. State broadcaste...
LinkAsia
| Feb 14, 2012
Indians were appalled when a recent study found that India has the worst air pollution on the planet. Then an Indian environmental official dismissed the startling finding as a "non-issue," sparking a firestorm on social media. Journalist Ajoy Bos...
LinkAsia
| Feb 3, 2012
Eight executives are behind bars, and cities in Guangxi province are in a race against time to contain the spread of drinking water contaminated by cadmium. Exposure to the chemical can result in kidney disease and cancer. State broadcaster CCTV N...
Earth Focus
| Jan 20, 2012
This Earth Focus report sheds light on the struggle of the Tsilhqot'in and Xeni Gwet'in people of British Columbia, Canada to stop the construction of Prosperity Mine, a gold and copper mine proposed by Taseko Mines Ltd. The mine would destroy Fis...
Press TV
| Jan 19, 2012
While the US government continues its push to keep Iran from operating a nuclear power plant, a debate is raging within America home about its own reactors and how safe they may or may not be. Iran's Press TV reports from New York.
— Feb 5 at 01:01 am
...the right to clean drinking water and that too in the 21st century. As it is always, as soon the media reports on an environmental issue, politi...
— Feb 4 at 01:44 pm
...examination of a companys-or business units-marketing environment objectives, strategies and activities with a view to determining problem Fashi...
— Feb 5 at 03:37 pm
...of the environment and sustainable development. (Andre Forget/QMI AGENCY) OTTAWA - The government has failed to ensure environmental protections...
— about 14 hours ago
...the human footprint on the environment due to advancements in this technology over time. Nanotechnology creates products and materials that adva...
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements. Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and/or improvement of the natural environment, and may be referred to as a movement to control pollution. For this reason, concepts such as a land ethic, environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology and the biophilia hypothesis figure predominantly.
At its crux, environmentalism is an attempt to balance relations between humans and the various natural systems on which they depend in such a way that all the components are accorded a proper degree of sustainability. The exact nature of this balance is controversial and there are many different ways for environmental concerns to be expressed in practice. Environmentalism and environmental concerns are often represented by the color green, but this association has been appropriated by the marketing industries and is a key tactic of greenwashing. Environmentalism is opposed by anti-environmentalism, which takes a skeptical stance against many environmentalist perspectives.
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