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Juliette Jowit

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Juliette Jowit

People can hold several mini-jobs up to the €400-a-month tax-free limit and the only impact on their income is the reduction of unemployment benefits over a certain threshold.

UK looks to mini-jobs for economic boost

The creation of "mini-jobs", which allow people to take on work without paying tax or national insurance, is being considered by the British treasury.

Drowning in a sea of waste

Drowning in a sea of waste

The convenience of using plastic leaves our world smothered in rubbish.

Under siege: Climate scientists defend work ahead of COP17

Under siege: Climate scientists defend work ahead of COP17

Climate scientists are on the defensive after damaging emails were leaked in a bid to discredit evidence of global warming ahead of the Durban summit.

Cottoning on to unfair subsidies

The continuing struggle of cotton growers in the poorest region of the world comes under the spotlight.

Big business subverts world health

Big business subverts world health

UN official spells out how lobby groups stall and water down progressive regulation.

Conservation: Mankind must turn over a new leaf

The mission to catalogue threats to our world produced more gloomy news last week: that more than one in five plants is at risk of extinction.

Highway threatens migration route

Highway threatens migration route

Vehicles and animals are on a collision course in Tanzania.

Flowers face extinction

Flowers face extinction

More than one in four of all flowering plants are under threat of extinction, according to an alarming report by scientists.

‘A landscape of market failures’

In every corner of the globe the evidence of the biodiversity crisis is now impossible to ignore.

Urgent need to nurture nature

Urgent need to nurture nature

UN biodiversity report calls for global action to prevent destruction of the Earth’s resources.

‘Ration meat and save the world’

Report: People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid runaway climate change.

Eat less meat and save the planet

People should have one meat-free day a week to help tackle climate change, says the world’s leading authority on global warming.

UN says road deaths kill as many as Aids

The United Nations is to hold its first debate on road safety amid warnings that the problem is a ”public health crisis” on the scale of Aids, malaria and tuberculosis. Next…

Krill fishing threatens the Antarctic

The Antarctic, one of the planet’s last unspoilt ecosystems, is under threat from mankind’s insatiable appetite for harvesting the seas. The population of krill, a tiny…