Green New Deal

  • Dismantling green colonialism

    Hamza Hamouchene
     | 20th September 2021
    The unprecedented oil crash at the beginning of 2020 drove straight into the pandemic lockdowns.

  • Climate change never comes alone

    Alejandro González
     | 17th September 2021
    Migration to North America has become predominantly male because of climate hazards and hostile immigration policies.

  • Climate policy at the US border

    Todd Miller
     | 16th September 2021
    Border policy is quickly becoming climate policy as more people are displaced in Central America on a heating globe.

  • Indigenous liberation - or extinction

    Simon Butler
     | 16th September 2021
    The campaign to halt climate breakdown ecological destruction is bound up with the fate of the world’s Indigenous peoples.

  • Climate migration is a feminist issue

    Tetet Nera-Lauron
     | 14th September 2021
    Women in all their diversities are disproportionately affected by climate breakdown due to existing structural and systemic inequalities.

  • Indian climate migration after Covid-19

    Jessica Faleiro
     | 13th September 2021
    Climate breakdown is leading to ever-greater migration - but the issue is still largely invisible in migration discourse and response.

  • Blue imaginaries for Green New Deals

    Jessica Lehman
    Elizabeth Johnson
     | 10th September 2021
    Incorporating the ocean into visions of an environmentally stable future would first require a change in our ocean imaginary.

Activism

  • A travesty of justice

    Hali Healy
     | 13th September 2021
    Protesters against a titanium mine in South Africa were brutally attacked. Six years later and justice has not been done.

  • Tree equity

    Julia Travers
     | 3rd September 2021
    The American Forests campaign is calling for more trees in Houston, Detroit, Seattle and other urban areas in the US.

  • 'Code red' - not greenwash

    Brendan Montague
     | 1st September 2021
    Protestors with Extinction Rebellion demand UK Government come clean on the climate emergency.

  • BP 'dropped' as C4 paralympics sponsor

    Jess Worth
    Andrew Simms
     | 24th August 2021
    Oil company BP disappears from Channel 4 coverage despite being originally announced as Paralympic Games sponsor.

Climate Breakdown

  • Indigenous liberation - or extinction

    Simon Butler
     | 16th September 2021
    The campaign to halt climate breakdown ecological destruction is bound up with the fate of the world’s Indigenous peoples.

  • A seat at the table

    Magid Magid
     | 2nd September 2021
    A new movement is empowering those on the frontline of the climate crisis.

  • Jet Zero and the politics of the technofix

    Gareth Dale
    Josh Moos
     | 27th August 2021
    Special Investigation: It’s not ‘Jet Zero.’ It’s not even net zero. It’s plane insanity - and we’re heading for a hard landing.

  • Shifting power

    Marianne Brooker
     | 27th August 2021
    Change cannot come from the top down.

  • Towards extinction...or hope

    Terry Brotherstone
     | 27th August 2021
    A review of 'Crude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation' by James Marriott and Terry Macalister.

  • BP 'dropped' as C4 paralympics sponsor

    Jess Worth
    Andrew Simms
     | 24th August 2021
    Oil company BP disappears from Channel 4 coverage despite being originally announced as Paralympic Games sponsor.

Biodiversity

  • We must save 'ugly' monkeys too

    Mike Jeffries
     | 1st September 2021
    Understanding how and why people perceive certain animals as less appealing than others could be the key to expanding public conservation efforts successfully.

  • Public against animal testing

    Brendan Montague
     | 13th August 2021
    Cruelty Free International, Animal Free Research UK and OneKind join forces to call on the UK Government to end animal testing.

  • 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?

Food and Farming

  • How agriculture must change

    Teresa Anderson
     | 26th August 2021
    Some 'Principles for a Just Transition in Agriculture' have been developed by ActionAid.

Conservation

  • Tree equity

    Julia Travers
     | 3rd September 2021
    The American Forests campaign is calling for more trees in Houston, Detroit, Seattle and other urban areas in the US.

  • We must save 'ugly' monkeys too

    Mike Jeffries
     | 1st September 2021
    Understanding how and why people perceive certain animals as less appealing than others could be the key to expanding public conservation efforts successfully.

  • Doing development differently

    Jale Simuwai
     | 17th August 2021
    Climate breakdown is the consequence of a flawed development system that we have considered normal for too long.

  • The covid conservation crisis

    Robert Aruho
     | 17th August 2021
    The coronavirus pandemic has caused a conservation crisis. Without funding, we are sleepwalking into catastrophe.

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.

  • 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.

Energy

  • Green energy grabs

    Hamza Hamouchene
     | 6th September 2021
    Two examples of renewable energy schemes in North Africa show how energy colonialism is reproduced in the form of green colonialism or green grabbing.

  • Towards extinction...or hope

    Terry Brotherstone
     | 27th August 2021
    A review of 'Crude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation' by James Marriott and Terry Macalister.

  • BP 'dropped' as C4 paralympics sponsor

    Jess Worth
    Andrew Simms
     | 24th August 2021
    Oil company BP disappears from Channel 4 coverage despite being originally announced as Paralympic Games sponsor.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Mining

  • A travesty of justice

    Hali Healy
     | 13th September 2021
    Protesters against a titanium mine in South Africa were brutally attacked. Six years later and justice has not been done.
  • Military police assemble in the community of Buenos Aires, Ecuador. Image: Peter Shear

    Can 'green mining’ boom save our planet? 

    Claire Burgess
    Liz Downes
     | 9th September 2021
    The push to extract raw materials for an urgent ‘clean energy’ transition is impacting on vulnerable frontlines in resource-rich areas.
     

  • Mining and green new deals

    Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz
     | 4th August 2021
    Mining that destroys communities and the ecosystem can have no part in any Green New Deal.
  • Coal mine, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Photo: Stephen Codrington via Wikimedia Commons.

    A world without mining

    Joám Evans Pim
     | 3rd August 2021
    We must be able to imagine a world see from mining destruction before we can make this a reality.

Pollution

  • A flood of solutions

    Sophie Johnson
     | 2nd August 2021
    Extreme floods: why they are happening and what to do about it.

Economics and policy

  • Indigenous liberation - or extinction

    Simon Butler
     | 16th September 2021
    The campaign to halt climate breakdown ecological destruction is bound up with the fate of the world’s Indigenous peoples.

  • Death by a thousand treaties

    Cecilia Olivet
    Lucía Bárcena
     | 20th August 2021
    The Energy Charter Treaty is the world’s most dangerous investment agreement.

  • Rough trade

    Laura Basu
     | 19th August 2021
    Secret international trade deals could undermine any Green New Deals.

  • Mining and green new deals

    Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz
     | 4th August 2021
    Mining that destroys communities and the ecosystem can have no part in any Green New Deal.

  • Making the climate transition work

    Dalia Gebrial
    Harpreet Kaur Paul
     | 3rd August 2021
    Workers will build the green transition: their rights and lives must be enhanced in the process.

Indigenous Peoples

  • Indigenous liberation - or extinction

    Simon Butler
     | 16th September 2021
    The campaign to halt climate breakdown ecological destruction is bound up with the fate of the world’s Indigenous peoples.

  • Doing development differently

    Jale Simuwai
     | 17th August 2021
    Climate breakdown is the consequence of a flawed development system that we have considered normal for too long.

  • Roots and fruits

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

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'.
  • 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.

Resurgence & Ecologist

  • Tree equity

    Julia Travers
     | 3rd September 2021
    The American Forests campaign is calling for more trees in Houston, Detroit, Seattle and other urban areas in the US.

  • Shifting power

    Marianne Brooker
     | 27th August 2021
    Change cannot come from the top down.

  • 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.

Ecologist recycled

  • 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?