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  • Heatwaves and floods 'are new normal'

    Tess de la Mare
    | 29th July 2021
    The State Of The UK Climate 2020 report could 'indicate future breakdowns within food chains, leading to some species struggling to survive'.

Editors’ picks

  • The failure of animal testing

    Jarrod Bailey
    Katy Taylor
    | 29th July 2021
    Animal testing in British laboratories is down – now the government must target zero.
  • Those who trespass against us

    Jan Goodey
    | 27th July 2021
    Landscapes of Freedom mass trespass demands access to, and an end to blood sports on, Brighton and Hove City Council-owned land.
  • The search for climate resilient crops

    Monika Mondal
    | 23rd July 2021
    Climate breakdown will stress essential food crops. Scientists and farmers in India are working together to find a solution for chickpeas.
  • How to game the system

    Christopher Trisos
    Simon Nicholson
    Sam Beckbessinger
    | 22nd July 2021
    When it comes to climate, stories are just as important as science.
  • Plastic carrier bags

    This plastics isle

    Sophie Johnson
    | 21st July 2021
    The UK exports plastic its waste around the world - causing environmental and social injustices. But what is the solution?
  • Women keeping Ireland's gold in the ground

    V'cenza Cirefice
    | 20th July 2021
    Ireland has been identified as a hotspot in the European mining boom. Women across the country are fighting back.
  • Oil workers strike in Iran

    Simon Pirani
    | 16th July 2021
    Oil workers stage biggest industrial action since the general strike of 1978-79 that helped toppled the Shah’s regime.

Activism

  • Those who trespass against us

    Jan Goodey
    | 27th July 2021
    Landscapes of Freedom mass trespass demands access to, and an end to blood sports on, Brighton and Hove City Council-owned land.
  • Women keeping Ireland's gold in the ground

    V'cenza Cirefice
    | 20th July 2021
    Ireland has been identified as a hotspot in the European mining boom. Women across the country are fighting back.
  • Make McDonald's plant-based - protesters

    Brendan Montague
    | 15th July 2021
    BREAKING: Animal Rebellion blockading McDonald’s burger factory, which produces 3 million beef patties per day.
  • Ava Roberts with plastic waste

    Plastic: health impacts need urgent research

    Brendan Montague
    | 15th July 2021
    Scientists lead calls for £15 million National Plastic Health Impact Research Fund.
  • Land Rover SUVs

    Land Rover my dead body

    Andrew Simms
    | 9th July 2021
    Why this advert is dangerous to people and nature – and shows advertising needs new controls.
  • ‘The Mayor won’t change his mind’

    Simon Pirani
    | 1st July 2021
    An impassioned plea to the Mayor of London to chance his mind about the Silvertown Tunnel - based on local and global climate fears.
  • River pollution investigation goes livestream

    Brendan Montague
    | 24th June 2021
    Environmentalists George Monbiot and Franny Armstrong launch Rivercide to expose pollution and crowdsource change.

Climate Breakdown

  • Heatwaves and floods 'are new normal'

    Tess de la Mare
    | 29th July 2021
    The State Of The UK Climate 2020 report could 'indicate future breakdowns within food chains, leading to some species struggling to survive'.
  • The threat of 'business as usual'

    Brendan Montague
    | 28th July 2021
    Earth’s vital signs worsen amid business-as-usual mindset on climate change.
  • Forward to the past

    Bill McGuire
    | 27th July 2021
    Just what is the climate change bottom line?
  • The search for climate resilient crops

    Monika Mondal
    | 23rd July 2021
    Climate breakdown will stress essential food crops. Scientists and farmers in India are working together to find a solution for chickpeas.
  • 100 days to shake the world

    Emily Beament
    | 23rd July 2021
    The COP26 international climate conference opens in Glasgow in 100 days. Britain is far from ready.
  • How to game the system

    Christopher Trisos
    Simon Nicholson
    Sam Beckbessinger
    | 22nd July 2021
    When it comes to climate, stories are just as important as science.
  • Barakah

    When climate breakdown goes nuclear

    Dr Paul Dorfman
    | 14th July 2021
    Nuclear is on the front-line of climate change – and not in a good way.

Biodiversity

  • The failure of animal testing

    Jarrod Bailey
    Katy Taylor
    | 29th July 2021
    Animal testing in British laboratories is down – now the government must target zero.
  • The power of partnership

    Kieran Lynn
    | 29th June 2021
    Conservation science is working alongside traditional knowledge to save Australia’s unique wildlife.
  • Village rice fields, Hida Shirakawa-go, Gifu-ken, Japan, July 2010. Photo: Joel Abroad via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA).

    Corporate courts threat to insects

    Phil Carter
    | 17th May 2021
    The shadowy parallel court system of major trade agreements makes it difficult for countries to ban broad-spectrum insecticides.
  • Los Cedros Forest Reserve. Photo: Rainforest Information Centre

    Defending our forests

    Helen Dancer
    | 29th April 2021
    Are Rights of Nature the answer to our ecological crises?
  • Fish near a FAD in the Pacific Ocean. Photo: © Paul Hilton / Greenpeace.

    Seaspiracy: Closing the net on industrial fishing

    Tim Thorpe
    | 1st April 2021
    Seaspiracy, the latest Netflix documentary exposing the impact of our food systems, is making a splash.
  • The failures of animal testing

    Katy Taylor
    | 29th March 2021
    The promise of clinical efficacy through animal testing is dangerous.
  • Ocean mammals face extinction

    Brendan Montague
    | 25th March 2021
    Scientists have found that accidental capture by fisheries (bycatch), climate change and pollution are among the key drivers of decline.

Coronavirus

  • The coronavirus vaccine billionaires

    Brendan Montague
    | 24th May 2021
    Nine new vaccine billionaires have a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion - enough to fully vaccinate all people in low-income countries.
  • The masque of covid

    Neil Faulkner
    | 24th May 2021
    The pandemic confirms that capitalism is a clear and present danger to human existence.
  • Coronavirus as warning shot

    Madhav G. Badami
    | 15th April 2021
    Communicating linkages between biodiversity loss, climate breakdown and pandemics could serve as a trigger for action on these vital issues.
  • We need global vaccinations

    Brendan Montague
    | 30th March 2021
    Rich nations need to support global efforts to vaccinate populations to prevent dangerous variants of coronavirus mutating.
  • Permanent pandemic?

    Neil Faulkner
    | 19th February 2021
    Covid capitalism has entered its second year. It is global, and chronic. How long before we identify a solution of similar magnitude?
  • Renewable energy

    A green Covid-19 recovery

    Sophie Johnson
    | 15th February 2021
    Building sustainability into the UK exit strategy from the pandemic is a win-win-win for the climate, public health and the economy.
  • Oil Palm Saplings on Burned Land in Central Kalimantan

    Our system of work is broken

    Katy Wiese
    | 11th February 2021
    The COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency made one thing clear: we have to radically rethink the way we work.

Food and Farming

  • The search for climate resilient crops

    Monika Mondal
    | 23rd July 2021
    Climate breakdown will stress essential food crops. Scientists and farmers in India are working together to find a solution for chickpeas.
  • The global nitrogen time bomb

    Natalie Bennett
    | 22nd July 2021
    The world’s mismanagement of the nitrogen cycle is 'our forgotten environmental crisis'.
  • Make McDonald's plant-based - protesters

    Brendan Montague
    | 15th July 2021
    BREAKING: Animal Rebellion blockading McDonald’s burger factory, which produces 3 million beef patties per day.
  • How the G7 can safeguard our future

    Sandrine Dixson-Decléve
    Prof Saleemul Huq
    | 11th June 2021
    World leaders must act. We are drowning in promises.
  • Italian hazelnut crisis – is this ecocide?

    Catherine Early
    | 24th May 2021
    The question of ecocide is to be debated at a special webinar this week as part of EU Green Week.
  • My secret life in the killing zone

    Anonymous
    | 10th May 2021
    Meet the undercover investigator revealing widespread cruelty in the animal agriculture industry.
  • Photo: Scott Wallace / World Bank via Flickr, (CC BY-NC-ND).

    Crops can share genes

    Nina Massey
    | 23rd April 2021
    New research shows that grasses can incorporate DNA from other species into their genomes through a process known as lateral gene transfer.

Conservation

  • Ichthyologists wanted for dam greenwashing

    Steve Lockett
    | 6th July 2021
    Lockdown dam development webinars in Himalayan regions have been recruiting fish conservationists as specialist speakers.
  • Stonehenge under threat

    Kate Fielden
    | 23rd June 2021
    Plans for a major road widening and tunnel near Stonehenge have been approved by Grant Shapps despite determined opposition.
  • HS2 will derail local economies

    Natalie Bennett
    | 4th June 2021
    HS2 will increase commuting: undermining local economies, separating families, and increasing climate emissions.
  • Policing bill threat to ecological protest

    Alice Swift
    | 4th May 2021
    Protests to stop climate breakdown and ecological destruction do work - and that's precisely why the UK and other governments are determined to suppress them.
  • Brazilian Amazon 'releasing carbon' 

    Brendan Montague
    | 30th April 2021
    Large areas of rainforest degraded or destroyed due to human activity and climate breakdown - leading to carbon loss.
  • The EU and tropical deforestation

    Simon Bager
    Martin Persson
    | 1st April 2021
    Tropical deforestation is linked to food and animal feed consumed in the EU. We read 1,141 proposals addressing this problem - so you don't have to.
  • Sound pollution impacts whales, dolphins and porpoise

    Brendan Montague
    | 26th March 2021
    New project in Ireland to monitor sound pollution impacts on whales, dolphins and porpoise.

Deforestation

  • Dying for environmental democracy

    Dalena Tran
    | 28th June 2021
    Estela Casanto Mauricio, a Peruvian indigenous leader, was killed for her advocacy for the right to live in a healthy environment.
  • Los Cedros Forest Reserve. Photo: Rainforest Information Centre

    Defending our forests

    Helen Dancer
    | 29th April 2021
    Are Rights of Nature the answer to our ecological crises?
  • The EU and tropical deforestation

    Simon Bager
    Martin Persson
    | 1st April 2021
    Tropical deforestation is linked to food and animal feed consumed in the EU. We read 1,141 proposals addressing this problem - so you don't have to.
  • Young calf in a field

    Climate, animal suffering, antibiotic resistance

    Andrew Taylor-Dawson
    | 6th January 2021
    These are just some of the reasons to stop eating animals. Yes, it’s Veganuary once again.
  • Meet Jag-Wah

    Louisianna Waring
    | 2nd December 2020
    Jag-Wah, the new environmental hero from Greenpeace, comes alive in bold animations to expose the truth about industrial animal farming and rainforest annihilation.
  • Los Cedros Forest Reserve. Photo: Rainforest Information Centre

    Saving Los Cedros is 'case of the century'

    Rebekah Hayden
    | 26th November 2020
    The struggle to save the Los Cedros Forest Reserve in Ecuador from mining will set huge precedent for biodiversity protections.
  • Logging

    Rainforest protection is 'too weak'

    Catherine Early
    | 12th November 2020
    Legislation will ban products that breach local laws to protect natural areas, and businesses that do not conduct due diligence on their supply chain will be fined.

Energy

  • Oil workers strike in Iran

    Simon Pirani
    | 16th July 2021
    Oil workers stage biggest industrial action since the general strike of 1978-79 that helped toppled the Shah’s regime.
  • Renewable energy

    Climate response creates 10m jobs

    Brendan Montague
    | 7th July 2021
    Renewable energy projects set to create 10 million new jobs globally - with 625,000 in the UK alone.
  • Blue hydrogen v green hydrogen

    Sophie Johnson
    | 18th May 2021
    Hydrogen is likely to be an important part of the next stage of the UK’s energy transition. But where will we get it from, and fast?
  • Crude Britannia

    James Marriott
    Terry Macalister
    | 13th May 2021
    Protests against BP, the oil industry and its pollution are as much a part of Britain's history as the industry itself.
  • Taxpayer backed gas project faces Total failure

    Emily Beament
    | 27th April 2021
    Criticism over UK Government backing for Total gas project in Mozambique as conflict halts scheme.
  • Fracking ban still necessary

    Emily Beament
    | 1st April 2021
    The authoritative Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says moratorium on fracking must remain unless and until there is an in-depth study into climate impacts.
  • Yvonne Margarula

    Australian uranium fuelled Fukushima

    Dr Jim Green
    David Noonan
    | 9th March 2021
    The Fukushima disaster was fuelled by Australian uranium but lessons were not learned and the industry continues to fuel global nuclear insecurity with irresponsible uranium export policies.

Mining

  • Women keeping Ireland's gold in the ground

    V'cenza Cirefice
    | 20th July 2021
    Ireland has been identified as a hotspot in the European mining boom. Women across the country are fighting back.
  • Unearthing the buried truth about green mining

    Diego Francesco Marin
    | 9th June 2021
    'Green mining' is an oxymoron that is gaining traction in the EU and pushes a risky narrative about an environmentally destructive sector.
  • Opencast mine

    Reject the extractive EU Green Deal

    Hannibal Rhoades
    | 3rd June 2021
    Communities, organisations and academics write to the EU to reject plans for a mining-heavy EU Green Deal.
  • We can't mine our way out of climate crisis

    Hannibal Rhoades
    Andy Whitmore
    | 25th May 2021
    We need a holistic, material transition towards a circular society.
  • Langer Heinrich uranium mine, Namibia

    Mindful mining?

    Natalie Bennett
    | 19th May 2021
    Green Economics Institute (GEI) and Green European Foundation one-day conference asks, 'mining for metals, can it be fair?'
  • Keep Cumbrian coal in the hole

    Coal: 'startling, very welcome U-turn'

    Gavin Cordon
    | 12th March 2021
    Robert Jenrick, communities secretary, to “call in” controversial application for new coal mine on the Cumbrian coast.
  • Young activists fight Cumbrian mine

    Anne Harris
    | 26th February 2021
    Young activists have added their voices to the call to stop a controversial new coking coal mine in Cumbria.

Pollution

  • Land Rover SUVs

    Land Rover my dead body

    Andrew Simms
    | 9th July 2021
    Why this advert is dangerous to people and nature – and shows advertising needs new controls.
  • River pollution investigation goes livestream

    Brendan Montague
    | 24th June 2021
    Environmentalists George Monbiot and Franny Armstrong launch Rivercide to expose pollution and crowdsource change.
  • Traffic jam: the Tories are freezing fuel duty for the ninth year in a row

    Driving cars out of our cities

    Andrew Simms
    | 11th May 2021
    The Car Free Megacities campaign sets out to transform London, Paris and New York.
  • Ella Kissi-Debrah - pollution targets still needed

    Emily Beament
    | 21st April 2021
    Boris Johnson still failing to impose WHO pollution targets eight years after death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah from asthma attack.
  • city hall

    Pesticides 'should be banned in London'

    Brendan Montague
    | 7th April 2021
    The Greater London Assembly 'must stop the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides, including glyphosate, on its land'.
  • Boris loses his bottle on recycling

    Emily Beament
    | 24th March 2021
    'Deposit return scheme' charging customers a levy for drinks containers paid back when they return them for recycling may not happen until late 2024.
  • Ban polystyrene chips now!

    Raya Branford
    Kate Leeming
    | 25th February 2021
    Polystyrene chips damage our beautiful planet, and harm innocent animals. Year 6 students Raya and Kate want them banned.

Economics and policy

  • Renewable energy

    Climate response creates 10m jobs

    Brendan Montague
    | 7th July 2021
    Renewable energy projects set to create 10 million new jobs globally - with 625,000 in the UK alone.
  • Life after capitalism

    Molly Scott Cato
    | 22nd June 2021
    Tim Jackson's latest book Post Growth: Life After Capitalism is 'written almost as much in poetry as in prose'.

  • Green New Deal banner

    What green jobs are they talking about?

    Nicholas Beuret
    | 15th June 2021
    If you want a vision of our green future, imagine a Millennial working a zero-hour contract in a care home, looking after a lonely bed-ridden Boomer – forever.
  • A man looking stressed at his desk

    Making time: working less to save the planet

    Kyle Lewis
    Will Stronge
    | 8th June 2021
    Working less is both necessary and desirable from an environmental perspective.
  • The populationists’ ghastly future

    Simon Pirani
    | 28th May 2021
    The false narrative that population growth is a key driver of ecological crisis accuses and puts the onus on people in the global south.
  • The coronavirus vaccine billionaires

    Brendan Montague
    | 24th May 2021
    Nine new vaccine billionaires have a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion - enough to fully vaccinate all people in low-income countries.
  • The masque of covid

    Neil Faulkner
    | 24th May 2021
    The pandemic confirms that capitalism is a clear and present danger to human existence.

Indigenous Peoples

  • Roots and fruits

    Vandana K
    | 24th June 2021
    Welcome to the all-women producers’ collective in the Indian Himalayas.
  • Survival of the kindest

    Julian Abel
    | 24th February 2021
    More experts are arguing in favour of human compassion.
  • Aerial view of Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Madagascar. Photo: via Andrew Lees Trust.

    Can Rio Tinto be trusted?

    Yvonne Orengo
    | 18th February 2021
    Communities in southern Madagascar impacted by water pollution are still waiting for basic public health information from mining giant Rio Tinto.
  • Tribal children assemble at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS)

    Lessons in destruction

    Gladson Dungdung
    | 17th November 2020
    Factory schools threaten the survival of Indigenous culture.
  • Coming back to life in Tharaka, Kenya

    Simon Mitambo
    | 7th October 2020
    Community leader shares how the Indigenous Tharakan people are pursuing decolonisation and building resilience to COVID-19 and climate change.
  • Salween Peace Park: for all living things

    Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
    | 8th September 2020
    The Karen Indigenous People in Myanmar founded the Salween Peace Park to protect their mega-diverse territory and their culture from extractivism and conflict.
  • Stories of resilience

    Million Belay
    Liz Hosken
    | 8th September 2020
    A new Ecologist series explores grassroots stories of resilience and hope in a time of multiple crises.

Systems

  • CRISPR

    Nobel Prize for a gene bomb

    Silvia Ribeiro
    | 22nd October 2020
    CRISPR and new forms of gene manipulation must not be allowed anywhere near our food systems or into the wider environment.
  • Carbon capture

    Hacking the earth?

    Bill McGuire
    | 20th October 2020
    Geo-engineering 'turns hearts and minds away from the cause of the climate crisis and inevitably dilutes the urgency with which it must be addressed'.
  • Seagrass. Photo: Richard Unsworth.

    Restoring seagrass meadows in England

    Emma Nolan
    | 23rd September 2020
    Seagrass meadows support marine life, human livelihoods and the fight against climate breakdown.
  • Glacier

    Study of 66 million years of climate

    Staff Reporter
    | 14th September 2020
    'Window into the past provides context for the ongoing anthropogenic change and how exceptional it is.'
  • Stop Golden Rice

    Golden Rice is 'trojan horse'

    Stop Golden Rice Network
    | 19th August 2020
    Golden Rice will only strengthen the grip of corporations over rice and agriculture, endangering agrobiodiversity and human health.
  • Vaccine

    UK deal threatens 'vaccine nationalism'

    Brendan Montague
    | 18th August 2020
    UK's Covid-19 vaccine deals with Novavax and Janssen threaten fair global distribution, campaigners warn.
  • Bee

    Air pollution making honey bees sick

    Barbara Smith
    Mark Brown
    | 11th August 2020
    The combined impacts of pesticides and air pollution on bees could have severe consequences.

Resurgence & Ecologist

  • Hear here

    Gary Cook
    | 2nd July 2021
    A new show celebrates the act of listening.
  • The power of partnership

    Kieran Lynn
    | 29th June 2021
    Conservation science is working alongside traditional knowledge to save Australia’s unique wildlife.
  • Roots and fruits

    Vandana K
    | 24th June 2021
    Welcome to the all-women producers’ collective in the Indian Himalayas.
  • Los Cedros Forest Reserve. Photo: Rainforest Information Centre

    Defending our forests

    Helen Dancer
    | 29th April 2021
    Are Rights of Nature the answer to our ecological crises?
  • Working for a future

    Jonathan Neale
    | 28th April 2021
    We need global solidarity to deliver climate jobs.
  • Jackson Bigasaki, caretaker at the permaculture demonstration garden in Bikunya

    Reframing economics

    Herbert Girardet
    | 27th April 2021
    Now is the time to be bold, and to envisage a holistic, green recovery linking human wellbeing with the health of ecosystems.
  • Kids from XR Youth hold up placards at the September climate march

    Education when people and planet matter

    Brendan Montague
    | 1st March 2021
    Schumacher College, in partnership Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, is launching a major new essay competition on the topic of 'education as if people and planet matter’.

Ecologist recycled

  • A virus is haunting Europe - the vector is capitalism

    Brendan Montague
    | 18th March 2020
    The decision to defend capital has led to governments taking too little action too late to stop the spread of novel coronavirus.
  • Burning sloth

    The sloth and the bonfire

    Pablo Solon
    | 28th August 2019
    Nature should not be burned at the stake, legally or illegally.
  • Water vole

    The ecology of victory

    Ian Rappel
    | 9th July 2019
    What lessons can environmental activists learn from the dismissal of the M4 Black Route?
  • London

    Reimagining London

    Samuel Hayward
    | 1st July 2019
    We can make London work for everyone, but we need to have a brave, grassroots vision.
  • Biapo Brisu

    The oil spills of Ogoniland

    Amelia Collins
    | 17th May 2019
    Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.
  • Protesters spill fake blood outside Downing Street

    Social collapse and climate breakdown

    Jonathan Neale
    | 8th May 2019
    Wisdom only begins when we let in the grief and rage of understanding climate breakdown. Can we find radical hope in the face of social collapse around the world?
  • Harbour porpoise

    Fear and self-loathing in the Anthropocene

    Ian Rappel
    | 2nd May 2019
    The first in a new series on biodiversity conservation offers a radical perspective on ecological crisis.

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