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Food in the Anthropocene

Arthur Wyns

| 18th January 2019

Scientists describe how to feed a population of 10 billion people by 2050 while keeping the planet and ourselves healthy.

Protest against Bristol Airport expansion

Alex Morss

| 18th January 2019

Extinction Rebellion to stage a 'die-in' at Bristol Airport in opposition to expansion.
Lawson steps down as 'chief denier'

Chloe Farand

| 18th January 2019

Climate denier and founder of Global Warming Policy Foundation steps down.
Ellesmere Port shale gas public inquiry begins

Marianne Brooker

| 17th January 2019

Inquiry to hear from experts on potential climate impacts of the first flow test site in the county.
Liverpool FC and climate breakdown

Chris Saltmarsh

| 17th January 2019

Standard Chartered's sponsorship of Liverpool FC is a cynical attempt to buy a social license to profit from fossil fuel finance.
The pecking order

Marianne Brooker

| 17th January 2019

Fast food chains ignore chicken welfare to fuel profits, new report finds.
Which animals win in a warming Antarctic?

Staff Reporter

| 17th January 2019

Seafloor predators and open-water feeding animals could benefit from climate change.

Change makers

Lawyers reveal Drax climate impact

Marianne Brooker

| 16th January 2019

Emissions-intensive gas plant would fly in the face of UK Government's decarbonisation targets.

Extinction Rebellion in Canterbury

Ellie Horton

| 16th January 2019

Protestors demanding climate justice block a main road in Canterbury.
Ammonia: the ‘poor cousin’ of air pollution

Marianne Brooker

| 15th January 2019

Does the UK Government's Clean Air Strategy go far enough in tackling 'runaway ammonia emissions'?
The RSPB and the Climate Change Act

Jamie Wyver

| 14th January 2019

Ten top achievements in the decade since helping to bring about the Climate Change Act.
Where the gas is greener

Marianne Brown

| 9th January 2019

Marianne Brown speaks to the founder of Ecotricity, Dale Vince.
Six top tips for staying vegan beyond Veganuary

Dominika Piasecka

| 9th January 2019

New Year’s resolutions are in full swing now, but how can you make sure you stick to them?
The end of incineration is near

Claire Arkin

EnvJustice

| 8th January 2019

Celebrations erupted across the city of Commerce in Los Angeles, California when it was lights out for its dirty incinerator.

Thought Leaders

The impacts of 'eco-tourism'

Emily Folk

| 18th January 2019

Everyone needs a good vacation. Eco-friendly travel can affect not only how to travel but also where on the planet people travel.

Progress of Japan fishing reform

Staff Reporter

| 16th January 2019

Reforms represent significant progress for sustainable fishing in the region.
The cultural politics of climate change

Rebecca Willis

| 15th January 2019

A lack of political will to address climate change could be attributed to cultural constraints and social pressures.
Brexit: The uncivil war

Chloe Farand

Mat Hope

| 11th January 2019

An overwhelmingly male cast involved in whipping up support for the Leave includes ministers, political activists, businessmen and strategists.
An ecological philosophy of film

Rupert Read

| 7th January 2019

The fictional worlds of film comprise a call to action to transform our own world.
Extinction rebellion at the BBC

Alastair McIntosh

| 3rd January 2019

XR protests outside the BBC demand courage and compassion in the face of extinction.
Climate justice and the bystander effect

Holly-Anna Petersen

| 2nd January 2019

Could 'the bystander effect' explain public inaction on climate change?

Science & systems

The case for natural burial

Ken West

| 14th January 2019

Natural burial reduces pollution and helps to conserve natural habitats.

Symbiosis: a new grassroots network

Brendan Montague

| 10th January 2019

Local direct democracy groups across North America are assembling a revolutionary confederation.
Techno-fantasies and eco-realities

Corporate Watch

| 9th January 2019

What role does technology play in our ecologically sustainable future, and how do we get there?
On the nature of change

Brendan Montague

| 3rd December 2018

The first in a major new series of articles exploring how dialectical systems thinking can direct change making.
Chimps 'use each other as social tools'

Brendan Montague

| 23rd November 2018

Chimps demonstrate elaborate cognitive skills by 'using' each other to perform beneficial tasks.
Badger culls could be unlawful

Anna Dale

| 23rd November 2018

Defra’s decision to interfere with badger cull licensing could be unlawful, new research suggests.
Whale songs 'complex' and 'revolutionary'

Brendan Montague

| 21st November 2018

Humpback whales participate in a shared, constantly evolving song cycle.

Resurgence & Ecologist

Where human and animal meet

Huw Wahl

| 15th January 2019

Peter Mettler and Emma Davie's film 'Becoming Animal' tests the boundaries of perception.

The connecting thread

Alice Kettle

| 11th January 2019

A cultural heritage project at the Whitworth Gallery shows solidarity with refugees and displaced people across the world.
Born to be wild

Kate Blincoe

| 10th January 2019

Kate Blincoe heads out to watch a seal rookery.
Where the gas is greener

Marianne Brown

| 9th January 2019

Marianne Brown speaks to the founder of Ecotricity, Dale Vince.
The definition of happiness

Russell Warfield

| 8th January 2019

Russell Warfield meets feminist academic and author Lynne Segal.
Courage: Resurgence & Ecologist out now

Marianne Brown

| 4th January 2019

Introducing the latest issue of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine.
Embracing spirituality with a scientific mind

Satish Kumar

| 20th November 2018

Science and spirituality are mutually illuminating, and mutually dependent.

Unearthed

Indonesia and Malaysia lobbied UK over palm oil

Joe Sandler Clarke

| 7th December 2018

Indonesian and Malaysian officials tried to push the UK government to lean on supermarket Iceland after it announced it would cut palm oil from its own-brand products.

Nature watchdog 'not independent' says chair

Emma Howard

| 26th November 2018

Unearthed: England’s national conservation advisor is no longer independent from government - its outgoing chair told MPs last week.
Will Brexit hatch chlorinated chicken?

Damien Kahya

| 20th November 2018

Brexit, backstops, transitions, free trade agreements. What does it all mean for our food, and for animal welfare?
UK blocks maritime reform

Joe Sandler Clarke

| 20th November 2018

Move to open up International Maritime Organisation stopped by UK as it ‘could lead to outside influence'.
Fox analysis of US trade deal is ‘work in progress’

Lawrence Carter

| 14th November 2018

Department for International Trade won’t release any of its modelling until after Britain leaves the European Union.
Do fracking mini-quakes matter?

Zac Boran

| 8th November 2018

Unearthed: As soon as Cuadrilla started fracking again tremors measuring on the richter scale were detected. But are they dangerous?
Mapped: world nitrogen dioxide pollution

Lauri Myllyvirta

Emma Howard

| 30th October 2018

Data from a new European Space Agency satellite reveals the scale and spread of NO2 on a global scale - from cities in Europe to wildfires in Africa.

Clear on Climate

Food in the Anthropocene

Arthur Wyns

| 18th January 2019

Scientists describe how to feed a population of 10 billion people by 2050 while keeping the planet and ourselves healthy.

Liverpool FC and climate breakdown

Chris Saltmarsh

| 17th January 2019

Standard Chartered's sponsorship of Liverpool FC is a cynical attempt to buy a social license to profit from fossil fuel finance.
Abundance closes largest investment to date

Staff Reporter

| 15th January 2019

Abundance has raised £7million for Orbital Marine Power and the world’s most powerful tidal stream turbine.
The RSPB and the Climate Change Act

Jamie Wyver

| 14th January 2019

Ten top achievements in the decade since helping to bring about the Climate Change Act.
Insurance and climate change

Nick Oldridge

| 11th January 2019

Insurers need to properly assess climate risks and divest from fossil fuels.
How climate activists avoid burn out

Nick Breeze

| 11th January 2019

Rosemary Randall of the Climate Psychology Alliance talks to NICK BREEZE about coping with the stress and the sustainability of activism.
Sustainable pet food – are insects the answer?

Catherine Early

| 10th January 2019

A dog food based on insects instead of meat is being launched in over 150 pet stores and online - aiming to reduce the carbon pawprint of man’s best friend.

Fakenomics

Solidarity rejects climate science consensus

Chloe Farand

| 11th December 2018

Solidarity, the Polish trade union, denied the UN conclusions on the dangers of global warmingIn a joint statement with Chicago based trade union bashing right wing Heartland Institute.

'Time is running out' says oil chief - in 1965

Sharon Kelly

| 28th November 2018

The climate change warning is clear and dire — and the source unexpected.
Lawson's deniers handed $177k by US donors

Mat Hope

| 27th November 2018

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) received hundreds of thousands in US donations in 2017, recently published tax returns show.
Brazilian foreign minister is climate denier

Karl Mathiesen

| 16th November 2018

Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro names anti-globalist diplomat to lead on foreign affairs and the Paris Agreement.
A 'Museum of Communist terror' in the UK

Chloe Farand

| 15th November 2018

A group of hard-Brexiters is working together to launch a 'Museum of Communist Terror.
Climate deniers teaching at Christian camp

Graham Readfearn

| 15th November 2018

Climate science denial is just one of the lessons at a bizarre Christian conspiracy summer camp.
Obama, climate and the audacity of hope

Brendan Montague

| 13th November 2018

Fakenomcis: Obama promised to meet climate change challenge – acknowledging resistance from oil monopolies dominating US energy market.

Ecologist recycled

Children need sensitive, proactive climate change education

Sue Hampton

| 25th September 2018

Children feel the threat of climate change and want to drive radical action to safeguard their future - so we should too, argues children's author SUE HAMPTON.

Biospherics, the noosphere and our future

Mark Nelson

| 6th September 2018

Biosphere 2 was a radical experiment and inspired with its vision of how the technosphere and biosphere can be brought into harmony.
Engineering the climate could cost us the earth

Gareth Dale

| 30th August 2018

Is geoengineering realistic, is it safe - or is it just sleight of hand?
Kichwa people defend indigenous territories

Bethany Pitts

| 13th August 2018

The Ecuadorian government is in the process of auctioning off eight million acres of largely virgin rainforest to oil companies.
'Community is the way to sustain life'

Fritjof Capra

| 30th April 2018

'Ecoliteracy' is urgent and necessary if we are going to build resilient and sustainable human communities.
Planet’s first plastic free aisle is unveiled

Sian Sutherland

| 28th February 2018

Shoppers at Amsterdam's Ezoplaza today have the pick of more than 700 plastic free products.
Tackling loneliness reduces health costs

Marianne Brown

| 21st February 2018

Kindness is a public good. But it can also reduce the stress on our public services.