TENS of thousands of Nigerian farmers and fishermen have been granted permission to challenge oil giant Shell at the supreme court in London.
Villagers from the Niger Delta’s Bille and Ogale communities allege that oil leaks from Shell’s pipelines have polluted their land and water for decades.
They will argue that Shell’s headquarters in London is legally responsible for environmental failures by its subsidiary in Nigeria.
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Nigeria’s presidential spokesman grovels to the West in response to Washington intimidation, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results



