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  • Pesticide takeover spells trouble for bees

    Phil Carter
    | 3rd December 2020
    Pollinators and farmers likely to bear the brunt of the acquisition of Bharat Insecticides by a consortium led by Mitsui.
  • Good food must be a right for everyone

    Tom Andrews
    | 3rd December 2020
    The Covid-19 pandemic reminded us of the role food plays in our daily lives.
  • 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.
  • Making green come true

    Alexa Waud
    | 2nd December 2020
    What’s keeping the green promise of housing retrofit from becoming a reality?
  • Did air pollution kill Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah?

    Catherine Early
    | 30th November 2020
    A second inquest scrutinising the role of air pollution in the death of a nine-year old from Lewisham in London begins today.
  • Black Friday and the climate emergency

    Andrew Simms
    Tim Kasser
    | 26th November 2020
    Black Friday could easily refer to today’s carbon footprint driven by the spree of overconsumption, fuelled by advertising.
  • The British Museum of Decolonized Nature

    Museums and radical climate action

    Colin Sterling
    Rodney Harrison
    | 25th November 2020
    How can museums reimagine themselves in the context of the climate crisis?

Activism

  • 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.
  • Prison

    America's toxic prisons

    Kimberly M. S. Cartier
    | 13th November 2020
    'The water is bad, the air is bad, and the ground is bad. The soil is just sitting on top of … an excess of 50 million tons of toxic waste.'

  • Ntshangase’s voice rings louder than gunshots

    Dalena Tran
    | 5th November 2020
    Activist Fikile Ntshangase’s death is another case of the injustice that environmental defenders endure.
  • Fascism: History and Theory

    Sam Moore
    | 4th November 2020
    We need to understand the threat of eco-fascism - and therefore fascism. Sam Moore reviews David Renton's latest book, Fascism: History and Theory.
  • Peat bogs in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

    'Ban peatland burning'

    Emily Beament
    | 28th October 2020
    When peatland is degraded, drained and burned it releases carbon, worsening climate change.
  • Protest at Ineos refinery at Grangemouth

    Activists block Ineos refinery gates

    Lucinda Cameron
    | 23rd October 2020
    Extinction Rebellion Scotland claims Ineos is Scotland’s biggest climate polluter.
  • May Project Gardens

    Help grow May Project Gardens

    Sarah Asante-Gregory
    | 23rd October 2020
    'Together we have explored eco-materials, danced gravel into the ground and worked out how to build a classroom that will support nature and not further destroy it.'

Climate Breakdown

  • Making green come true

    Alexa Waud
    | 2nd December 2020
    What’s keeping the green promise of housing retrofit from becoming a reality?
  • Black Friday and the climate emergency

    Andrew Simms
    Tim Kasser
    | 26th November 2020
    Black Friday could easily refer to today’s carbon footprint driven by the spree of overconsumption, fuelled by advertising.
  • The British Museum of Decolonized Nature

    Museums and radical climate action

    Colin Sterling
    Rodney Harrison
    | 25th November 2020
    How can museums reimagine themselves in the context of the climate crisis?
  • The solution is the problem

    Kevin Anderson
    Dan Calverley
    | 24th November 2020
    A response to the UK Prime Minister’s plan to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030.
  • School students strike

    Mock COP26

    Emily Beament
    | 19th November 2020
    The young adult climate event involving more than 350 delegates from 150 countries is taking place over the next two weeks.
  • A 10-point green industrial revolution?

    Emily Beament
    | 18th November 2020
    What areas does Boris Johnson's plan focus on and why are they important?
  • Boris green industrial revolution 'a rehash'

    Emily Beament
    Brendan Montague
    | 18th November 2020
    Funding will not 'remotely meet the scale of what’s needed to tackle the unemployment emergency and climate emergency we are facing'.

Biodiversity

  • A fungi to be with

    Victor Anderson
    | 26th November 2020
    A review of Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (Bodley Head 2020).
  • Hazelnut crisis in Tuscia

    James P Graham
    | 25th November 2020
    Since 2018 almost 1000 hectares of land around lake Bolsena, Italy, has been appropriated by the chemically-grown hazelnuts industry.
  • Music makers journey to Colombia rainforest

    Catherine Early
    | 17th November 2020
    Documentary makers collaborate with renowned Colombian band Bomba Estereo and actor Joaquin Phoenix to record indigenous environmental projects.
  • Covid-19 and the fur industry

    Sophie Johnson
    | 13th November 2020
    The cull in Denmark will have implications for the global fur industry - where China is still the global leader. So is this the end?
  • Nature is a source of life

    Satish Kumar
    | 12th November 2020
    We need a new economy that supports humans as part of nature rather than profits and investments.
  • P & G Palm Oil Supplier in Kalimantan

    Habitat loss 18 percent since 1700s

    Sam Russell
    | 9th November 2020
    Climate breakdown and agriculture driving habitat loss, leading to extinctions.
  • Bankrolling extinction

    Brendan Montague
    | 28th October 2020
    The global banks financing industries driving biodiversity collapse.

Coronavirus

  • Good food must be a right for everyone

    Tom Andrews
    | 3rd December 2020
    The Covid-19 pandemic reminded us of the role food plays in our daily lives.
  • International Nurses Day

    Isolation: the support people need

    Mike Downham
    | 24th November 2020
    A retired doctor explores the many ways people isolating need to be supported.
  • Scotland needs zero covid

    Leslie Cunningham
    | 20th November 2020
    The Scottish Government has claimed to follow a Zero Covid strategy, yet has failed so far to protect the population sufficiently.
  • Covid-19 and the fur industry

    Sophie Johnson
    | 13th November 2020
    The cull in Denmark will have implications for the global fur industry - where China is still the global leader. So is this the end?
  • Building power in a crisis

    Colin Wilson
    | 4th November 2020
    Covid-19 was an environmental crisis and quickly became a public health crisis. Now it is very much a social crisis.
  • International Nurses Day

    Not one more of us will be sacrificed

    RS21
    | 3rd November 2020
    The government wanted us to reopen the economy and blame each other for the second wave of death.
  • Cancer Alley

    Louisiana’s struggle against Covid-19

    Jordan Unger
    | 19th October 2020
    Air pollution in Louisiana’s 'Cancer Alley' linked to high Covid-19 death rates.

Food and Farming

  • 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.
  • Farming

    Farmers' post-Brexit environmental payments

    Emily Beament
    | 30th November 2020
    The multi-billion European Common Agricultural Policy will be replaced post-Brexit with some payments linked to environmental stewardship.
  • Lessons from Evangeline’s garden

    Dennis Tabaro
    | 10th November 2020
    Evangeline Kagwiite, an 90 year-old Ugandan elder, has much to teach us about resilience and food growing.
  • P & G Palm Oil Supplier in Kalimantan

    Habitat loss 18 percent since 1700s

    Sam Russell
    | 9th November 2020
    Climate breakdown and agriculture driving habitat loss, leading to extinctions.
  • Rewilding: transforming conservation methods

    Sophie Johnson
    | 4th November 2020
    We can transform the British landscape, and the longevity of our economy, if we let nature take the driving seat.
  • 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.
  • Loch stock and salmon

    Matt Mellen
    | 14th October 2020
    The rise of the salmon farming industry in Scotland is causing death and destruction for marine life.

Conservation

  • Boxing Day Hunt and Hounds in Chiddingstone, Kent, England. Photo: Kentish Plumber via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND).

    'Trail hunting is just a smokescreen'

    Staff Reporter
    | 27th November 2020
    United Utilities suspends trail hunting on its land.
  • 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.
  • Humpback whales

    It's the whales, darling

    Michael Drummond
    | 6th November 2020
    Actress Joanna Lumley, charities concerned about unexploded war munitions being detonated at sea.
  • Rewilding: transforming conservation methods

    Sophie Johnson
    | 4th November 2020
    We can transform the British landscape, and the longevity of our economy, if we let nature take the driving seat.
  • HS2 fells 'tree of the year'

    Emily Beament
    | 21st October 2020
    The Woodland Trust 'shocked and upset' at the felling of the Cubbington Pear, near South Cubbington Wood, Warwickshire, for the HS2 railway.
  • Planting 50 million trees to fight climate crisis

    Emily Beament
    | 19th October 2020
    The Woodland Trust is urging millions of people to join its 'big climate fightback' by planting trees this November.
  • Stop HS2 to give nature a fighting chance

    Amelia Overgaard
    | 19th October 2020
    'I feel I have no real choice in whether to take a step back from this campaign as my future is at risk given the climate and ecological crisis.'

Deforestation

  • 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.
  • Rights of Nature in Ecuador

    Rebekah Hayden
    | 6th November 2020
    The outcome of a case to protect the Los Cedros Reserve from mining will set a precedent for all future Rights of Nature cases in Ecuador.
  • Sequoia National Park

    Climate and US national forests and parks

    Emily Folk
    | 5th October 2020
    Some of Earth's most beautiful and vulnerable landscapes are being impacted by climate breakdown, despite their protected status.
  • The Harlequin Frog (Atelopus longirostris). Photo: Carlos Zorilla

    Sanctuary for life in Ecuador

    Rebekah Hayden
    | 25th September 2020
    A Constitutional Protection Action could protect the Rights of Nature over the economic rights of transnational companies in Ecuador's Intag Valley.
  • Forest fire in Chir Pine forests near Chitai, Almora District, Uttarakhand, April 2016

    Forest fires in India

    Abhishek Srivastava
    | 11th September 2020
    Global heating is contributing to forest fires, and those fires are stoking further heating: a deadly cycle. What can we learn from India's forest survey?

Energy

  • Making green come true

    Alexa Waud
    | 2nd December 2020
    What’s keeping the green promise of housing retrofit from becoming a reality?
  • Kazakhstan

    Oil and gas in Kazakhstan

    Mariya Lobacheva
    Danila Bekturganov
    | 23rd November 2020
    Lifting the veil of secrecy from Kazakhstan’s oil and gas industry can help stem the sector’s immense environmental and social harm.
  • Insulation

    Hydrogen homes is a terrible idea

    Gabriel Levy
    | 3rd November 2020
    A plan to pipe hydrogen, instead of natural gas, into millions of UK homes is being pushed hard by the fossil fuel industry.
  • British Poo-troleum

    Douglas Barrie
    | 21st October 2020
    'This has moved past greenwashing, this is gaslighting.'
  • Boris gets a second wind

    Shaun Connolly
    Brendan Montague
    | 6th October 2020
    The Prime Minister will say the coronavirus crisis should be used as a catalyst to make the UK world leader in clean power generation.
  • Edinburgh May Day

    North Sea workers ready to switch to renewables

    Gabriel Levy
    | 5th October 2020
    More than half of UK oil workers would switch to work on renewable energy if given the opportunity to retrain, new survey shows.
  • The unsustainability of the electric car

    Margarita Mediavilla
    Khaled Diab
    | 5th October 2020
    Shifting to electric vehicles while maintaining current travelling habits will not deliver emissions reductions required by European Green Deal and Paris Agreement.

Mining

  • 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.
  • Rights of Nature in Ecuador

    Rebekah Hayden
    | 6th November 2020
    The outcome of a case to protect the Los Cedros Reserve from mining will set a precedent for all future Rights of Nature cases in Ecuador.
  • Ntshangase’s voice rings louder than gunshots

    Dalena Tran
    | 5th November 2020
    Activist Fikile Ntshangase’s death is another case of the injustice that environmental defenders endure.
  • BHP: don’t believe its hype

    Saul Jones
    | 21st October 2020
    Meet the mining giant that talks big on responsibility, but has a long way to go to meet its own hype.
  • A photo of the San Finx mine site, taken in the 1990s. Photo: Vida e Ría

    We can't mine our way out of the climate crisis

    Marianne Brooker
    | 29th September 2020
    Global upswell of civil society organisations, communities and academics tells EC to align raw materials sourcing plans with the interests of people and planet.
  • The Harlequin Frog (Atelopus longirostris). Photo: Carlos Zorilla

    Sanctuary for life in Ecuador

    Rebekah Hayden
    | 25th September 2020
    A Constitutional Protection Action could protect the Rights of Nature over the economic rights of transnational companies in Ecuador's Intag Valley.
  • BHP Olympic Dam mine tailings

    BHP betrays international safety efforts

    Dr Jim Green
    David Noonan
    | 15th September 2020
    Mining giant BHP was complicit in the Samarco mining disaster in Brazil but the company has not learned from the experience.

Pollution

  • Pesticide takeover spells trouble for bees

    Phil Carter
    | 3rd December 2020
    Pollinators and farmers likely to bear the brunt of the acquisition of Bharat Insecticides by a consortium led by Mitsui.
  • Did air pollution kill Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah?

    Catherine Early
    | 30th November 2020
    A second inquest scrutinising the role of air pollution in the death of a nine-year old from Lewisham in London begins today.
  • Hazelnut crisis in Tuscia

    James P Graham
    | 25th November 2020
    Since 2018 almost 1000 hectares of land around lake Bolsena, Italy, has been appropriated by the chemically-grown hazelnuts industry.
  • Beijing smog

    Air pollution harms most vulnerable

    Emily Folk
    | 9th November 2020
    Air pollution is a rising concern with climate change and wildfires having a growing impact on every day life. It's worst impacts hurt vulnerable populations.
  • Trump clapping

    Trump backs fracking over science

    Shashikant Yadav
    | 2nd November 2020
    Trump's nationalist, populist and anti-science rhetoric on fracking has shifted the debate to the right, endangering the environment and public health.
  • Medicine

    Designing environmentally responsible healthcare

    Natalie Bennett
    | 28th October 2020
    The Medicines and Medical Devices Bill must pave the way for designing new drugs that are less harmful to the environment, supported by a circular economy.
  • farm

    England's green and pleasant land threatened

    Emily Beament
    | 26th October 2020
    Natural Capital Committee finds five of seven areas examined - freshwater, marine, soils, plants and wildlife and land - are deteriorating.

Economics and policy

  • Making green come true

    Alexa Waud
    | 2nd December 2020
    What’s keeping the green promise of housing retrofit from becoming a reality?
  • Black Friday and the climate emergency

    Andrew Simms
    Tim Kasser
    | 26th November 2020
    Black Friday could easily refer to today’s carbon footprint driven by the spree of overconsumption, fuelled by advertising.
  • Melbourne Global Climate Strike, 20 Sep 2019.

    Politics in a time of consequences

    Laurie Laybourn-Langton
    | 23rd November 2020
    We need more inclusive, empowering political narratives that drive systemic change.
  • Boris Johnson

    We need a real Green Industrial Revolution

    Chris Saltmarsh
    | 20th November 2020
    Labour and the Tories aren't prepared for a real green industrial revolution. Here's what it should include.
  • CDC

    Polluting investments not in our name

    Daniel Willis
    | 19th November 2020
    Parliamentarians and NGOs across Europe have signed joint statements calling for public development banks to respect human rights and stop funding fossil fuels.
  • Biden’s environmental proposals

    Emily Folk
    | 13th November 2020
    Climate breakdown concerns voters like never before - so was this reflected in the 2020 US presidential election results?
  • 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.

Indigenous Peoples

  • 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.
  • Loggin in Manu national park

    Voices on the road

    Brendan Montague
    | 14th August 2020
    New documentary on indigenous rights and the future of the Amazon launches online.
  • Extinction Rebellion pour blood on the steps of Trafalgar Square to highlight the crisis in Brazil

    Scientists raise the alarm on Amazon fires

    Catherine Early
    | 13th August 2020
    Worsening fires and deforestation in the Amazon are exacerbating the situation for indigenous people, who are already more vulnerable to Covid-19, scientists say.
  • Park Narodowy Manú

    Indigenous knowledge and global food systems

    Dr Agnes Kalibata
    | 12th August 2020
    Indigenous peoples can inspire future global food systems towards more sustainable and just societies

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

  • 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.
  • Night sky

    Night life

    Marianne Brown
    | 4th November 2020
    The current issue of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine offers a celebration of the night sky.
  • Daisy

    Hope in the extreme

    Marianne Brown
    | 25th August 2020
    People around the world are nurturing life - and hope - in the extreme.
  • Sculpture by Walter Bailey

    Home is where the art is

    PL Henderson
    | 3rd August 2020
    PL Henderson meets the sculptor Walter Bailey.
  • Women at allotment

    Digging a hole for ourselves

    Nicky Scott
    | 28th July 2020
    Industrial practices are making their way into home-growers' gardens and compounding the damage of peat extraction.
  • Peatlands

    Fuel for thought

    Donald Murray
    | 24th July 2020
    Donald Murray explores the good – and the dark – side to peat-digging.
  • Growing veg

    Chain reaction

    Laurie King
    | 20th July 2020
    Shetland is facing food insecurity despite its thriving local food scene.

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.
  • Strike before the planet gets hot

    Jonathan Neale
    | 30th May 2019
    Greta Thunberg has called for a world-wide strike on Friday September 20 - for children and adults. Here's how to make this a reality.
  • 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?

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