Index

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a

Abitibi-Consolidated 248

Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens 172

Afghanistan 309-10

African International Airways 97

Afrimex 96

Ahmadinejad, President 306

Alaska Brokerage International Limited 70-1

Alfa Group Consortium 178, 180

algae 140-5

aluminium cans 189-90

Amaggi Group 134

Amazon rain forest 133-9

American Association for the Advancement of Science 279

Angel, Roger 276

Animal Liberation Front (ALF) 22-4

Animal Rights Militia (ARM) 23

Arctic seed bank 51-6

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) 246-7

Associated British Food and

Beverages 236 Attenborough, David 93

aviation 215-20

b

BAE Systems 197-8

Ball, Dr Brenda 17-18

Balls, Ed 225

Baluyevsky, General Yuri 159-60

Bartfield, Peter 71, 72

Bate, Roger 260

Bellamy, David 262

Benedict XVI, Pope 242, 272

Benn, Hilary 168

Best, Dr Steven 301

biofuel 121-6

birth rate 239-44

Biwater 166-7

book publishing 245-50

bottled water 127-32

Bottled Water Information Office (BWIO) 129-30

bottom trawling 115-20

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) 138

BP 179,199

Brazil 133-9

BRIT School 312

Britain 109-14

British Airports Authority (BAA) 217-18

British American Tobacco (BAT) 253, 255

British Association of

Dermatologists 154

British Beekeepers’ Association 17, 18, 323

British Council 107

British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) 111

British Soft Drinks Association 128

Brown, Gordon 161, 218, 225, 231

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Uganda) 95

c

Caldeira, Ken 278-9

Canadian Fisheries Department 72

carbon offsetting 263-8

Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response (Colindale) 173

Centre for Infections (Colindale) 173

Centre for the Study of Carbon Dioxide 261

Cernan, Eugene 204

Cheney, Dick 180

China 233-8

China National Petroleum Corporation 42

cigarettes 251-6

CJD 138

clams 37-8

climate-change deniers 257-62

coal 233-4, 235

Coca Cola 128, 131

Colony Collapse Disorder (bees) 16,19

Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) 260

Congolese Democracy-Goma (RCD-Goma) 95, 96

Conservation of Seals Act (1970) 73

contraceptive pill 33-8

Convention of Antarctic Marine Living Resources 49

Coronado, Rod 301 cotton 294-5

Coulouthros family 178

Country Guardian group 111

cows 57-62

cremation 317-21

Crown Resources 178,180

Crutzen, Paul 124, 278, 279

d

Danone 128

Das Air 97

Dashwood, Sir Edward 41 deforestation 245-50

Democratic Republic of Congo 94-8

drug-trafficking 190-1

e

Earth Liberation Front (ELF) 299-304

eco-bulbs 152-6

eco-towns and homes 146-51

Eddington, Rod 218

Edmonds, Noel 111

E.J. Churchill 41

Electricité de France (EDF) 224, 226

elephants 39-44

end of the world party 186-91

endocrine disruptors 36-7

Environ Energy Global 199

Environment Agency 28, 34, 130, 155, 323

environmental movement 287-92

Environmental Research, Abersytwyth 60

etinyloestradiol 35-6

EU Biofuel Directive 122-3

European Bank of

Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) 179

European Commission 117,119, 194

Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) (Britain) 85

ExxonMobil 261

f

Family, The 301-2, 303

FARC group 190-1

fashion 293-8

FBI 299-303

feminisation of wildlife 33-8

fertilizers 19

fishing fleets 115-20

FlyingMatters 217

Food Standards Agency 284, 285

Forest Stewardship Council 249, 324

forests see Siberian forests formaldehyde 318-19

Friedman, Mikhail 178-9 fungi 107

see also mycorrhizal fungus FutureHeathrow 217

g

gaz-guzzlers 192-6 GC Rieber Skinn 71

George C. Marshall Institute 260-1

George F. Trumper Ltd. 43 ghost netting 117

Giesen, Stefan 178

Global Diversity Crop Trust 53

gorillas 93-9

Great Apes Survival Project Partnership (Grasp) 97

Green, Sir Philip 294

greenhouse-gas emissions 58-62

greenwash 197-202

Grey, Aubrey de 320

Griffin, George 172

h

Hachette USA 247-8

Halliburton 180

Hamlyn 248

Harmon, James 179-80

Hawking, Stephen 207

Health Protection Agency 173

Health and Safety Executive 223

Henman, Tim 148

Henman, Tony and Janet 148-9

High-frequency Active Auroral

Research Program (HAARP) 307-8

Hiroshima 157-8

honeybees 15-20

hormones 33-8

House of Commons International Development committee 97

Huhne, Chris 60

Hutton, John 224

i

Indonesia 122-6

Ingham, Sir Bernard 111

Institute for Animal Health laboratories (Pirbright) 171-2

International Bee Research Unit, Cardiff 20

International Finance Corporation 137-8

International Institute for Strategic Studies 162

International Oil Spill Pollution Compensation (IOPC) Fund 180-1

International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 141, 277

International Policy Network (IPN) 258-9

International Whaling Commission (IWC) 82

Iraq 306-9

ivory trade 39-40, 42-3

j

Japan 82-5

Japanese Knotweed 27-31

Jones, Ian 143

k

Karema (gorilla) 94,95,96

Karmes Marine Fish Farm,

Oban 22

Kelly, Ruth 217

Khan, Abdul Qadeer 161-2

King, Sir David 259, 287

KitKats 125

krill 45-50

Kyoto protocol 104, 258

l

Lackner, Klaus 279

Latham, John 277

Life on Earth TV series 93

Litvinenko, Alexander 159

‘Livestock’s Long Shadow’ (UN report) 59

Livingstone, Ken 155

Lovelock, James 288

Luers, Jeff 301

m

Maggi, Blairo 134-9

Mare International 178

Marine Bill (UK) 118

Markov, Georgi 160

Mato Grosso 134-9

Merkel, Angela 124

Meteorological Office 207

Migraine Action Association 154

mineral wealth conflicts 66-8

Ministry of Defence (MoD) 76-9, 173

Mitchell Beazley 248

Mollanod, Noel 301

Morris, Julian 258-9, 260

Moss, Kate 294, 297

motor cars 192-6

Museveni, Yoweri 168-9

Mutsambiwa, Maurice 42

mycorrhizal fungus 87-92

n

NASA 104, 131, 205, 206, 208

National Centre for

Atmospheric Research

(Colorado) 277

National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) 173

National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimbabwe) 41-2

National Radiological Board 223

Nestlé 125

Nkunda, Laurent 95-8

nuclear attack 221-6

Nuclear Decommission Authority 225

Nuclear Industry Association 225

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 158-9

nuclear plants 224-6

nuclear war 157-63

Nuclear Waste Trains Investigative Committee 223

Nyakasanga Hunting Safaris 41

o

obesity 209-14

Ocean Nourishment Corporation (ONC) (Sydney) 142 oestrogen 34-5

oil 176-81

O’Leary, Michael 58

‘Operation Backfire’ 301

organic produce 281-6

Orion 248

p

palm-oil 122-6

Panasonic 236

paper 245-50

Para 135-8, 139

peat swamps 122-3, 124, 125

Philip Morris company 189, 253, 255

Pires, Moacir 137

planet-cooling 275-80

Planktos 142-3

plastic bags 227-32

polar bears 63-8

population growth 239-44

Porritt, Sir Jonathon 288

Portch, Andrew 283

Prestige (ship) 177-81

Primark 297

Proctor & Gamble (P&G) 201

Purves, Sir William 179

r

rainforests 122-6

religious teaching 269-74

renewable energy 109-14

Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) 111

resources 323

Rhrabacher, Dana 60

Rio Tinto 189

rock stars 311-16

Rokke, Kjell Inge 47-50

Rooker, Lord 18

Roosmalen, Marc van 136

Round Table on Sustainable

Palm Oil 125

Royal Astronomical Society 206

Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 48, 324

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) 53

Royal Navy 79

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) 112

s

Sadat, Anwar 166

safaris 40-1

Sakhalin Energy 85

salmon 21-6

Salter, Stephen 277

Schellnhuber, Sir John 207

Science and Technology Laboratory (Porton Down) 173

seals 69-74

seed bank see Arctic seed bank Sena, Edilberto 136

SFK Pulp 248

Shell 68, 85, 199

Shell Transport and Trading Company 179

Shenzhen Delux Arts Plastic 230

Siberian forests 103-9

Silverbacks see gorillas Simon, Mary 65

smoking 251-6

Soil Association 283, 285, 324

solar power 111

Somerset Organics 283

Sonar 2087 77-9

Southern Ocean 46-50

soya 133-9

space travel 203-8

Stang, Dorothy 136

Stern, Sir Nicholas 257

Stevenson, William 117 Suiping, Huaqiang Plastic 230

supertankers 176-81

Sustainable Development Commission 288, 324

Svalbard Global Seed Vault 51-6

t

Tesco 202, 231

Thales Underwater Systems 79

Toepfer, Dr Klaus 97

transport industry 122-6, 192-6, 219-20

trawling see beam trawling Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (East Anglia) 207, 324

Tyumen Oil (TNK) 179-80

u

UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation 173-4

Unilever 125

United Nations (UN) 96-7,142, 168, 180, 199, 228, 277, 308, 309

Universe Maritime 178 University of California 107 urea 140-5

US Marine Mammal Protection Act 66

v

varroa mite 16-20

viruses 170-5

w

Walters, Sir Peter 179

war 305-10

water 164-9

Watercourses Convention (1997) 168 Werle, Hugo Jose Scheuer 137

whales 75-80, 81-6

Wicks, Malcolm 205

Wiedeking, Wendelin 194, 195, 196

wind and wave 109-14

windmills 112-13

World Bank 137-8, 235

World Health Organization (WHO) 318,325

z

Zoological Society of London 77, 325