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Fracking boom, ecological bust

Julie Dermansky

| 19th November 2018

Making visible the globe-warming gases of the Permian's fracking boom.

Bolsonaro’s deforestation has begun

Fabiano Maisonnave

| 19th November 2018

During the electoral season that brought Jair Bolsonaro to power in Brazil deforestation of the Amazon increased by 50 percent.
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.
Bhutan’s new organic food movement

Hannes Lorenzen

| 16th November 2018

Meet the Bhutanese entrepreneur working on organic food production, heritage and education.
France aims to ban deforestation imports by 2030

Sara Stefanini

| 15th November 2018

France intends to stop importing soy, palm oil, beef, wood and other products linked to deforestation and unsustainable agriculture.
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.

Change makers

Climate action in a climate of job insecurity

Hazel Graham

Stephen Graham

| 19th November 2018

Workers and environmentalists are joining forces to fight climate change.

Extinction Rebellion: embracing direct action

19th November 2018

We must rebel against capitalism's destruction of our common future.
We have no beef with the meat tax

Mark Banahan

| 16th November 2018

The proposal to tax red and processed meat should be welcomed.
Coal firm faces court for alleged wildlife crime

Brendan Montague

| 14th November 2018

Campaigners 'left with no choice but to take Banks Group to court' over habitat destruction.
Lawyers lodge objection to Drax gas plant

Marianne Brooker

| 13th November 2018

Drax plant breaches government’s planning and climate change recommendations, lawyers argue.
Avoiding Amazon in our online lives

Tim Hunt

| 6th November 2018

The company Amazon is having a huge impact on the environment as well as our hight streets - from the destruction of usable goods to fossil fuel powered data centres.
Campaigners demand halt to trophy hunting plan

Marianne Brooker

| 5th November 2018

Celebrities speak out after Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting.

Thought Leaders

Climate action in a climate of job insecurity

Hazel Graham

Stephen Graham

| 19th November 2018

Workers and environmentalists are joining forces to fight climate change.

Power, families and social workers

Andrew Papworth

Tim Fisher

| 19th November 2018

Maori traditions offer restorative justice model for healing family conflict.
Extinction Rebellion: embracing direct action

19th November 2018

We must rebel against capitalism's destruction of our common future.
Green consumerism is not enough

Liz Lee Reynolds

| 16th November 2018

Backlash against the decision to ban Iceland's orangutan advert over-emphasises the power of green consumerism.
The story of a recoverable earth

Paul Jepson

| 16th November 2018

A new narrative that emphasises regrowth and possibility could provide the hope we need.
Climate, capitalism and the military

Nick Buxton

| 15th November 2018

Capitalism's hidden fist is both a cause and effect of climate change: we need a new approach.
Tribute to a hero of organic farming

Satish Kumar

| 14th November 2018

My fond memories of Lord Peter Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace.

Science & systems

Keeping a close eye on Antarctic species

Brendan Montague

| 13th November 2018

Scientists studying Antarctic penguins have hit upon a reliable, low cost method of data collection using the simple time-lapse camera.

'Nature' prescriptions improve wellbeing

Staff Reporter

| 7th November 2018

Programme of 'river remedies' led to increased wellbeing among vulnerable adults and teenagers.
Degrowth in the suburbs

Dr Samuel Alexander

Brendan Gleeson

| 31st October 2018

The authors of 'Degrowth in the Suburbs' discuss their vision for a radical urban imaginary.
System change means dismantling patriarchy

Dipti Bhatnagar

Syeda Rizwana Hasan

| 26th October 2018

Gender justice is fundamental for meaningful environmental justice.
Wolves, systems thinking and trophic cascades

Rafaela Graça Scheiffer

| 17th October 2018

Natural systems can teach us how to repair the damage caused by large-scale meat consumption, pollution and agribusiness.
A new politics for the coming ecological crisis

Brendan Montague

| 10th October 2018

Polity Press publishes two attempts to move beyond the traditional left and right in the face of mounting ecological disruption.
Climate transition must be 'rapid and far-reaching'

Catherine Early

| 8th October 2018

Global CO2 emissions need to fall by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, and reach net zero by 2050 in order to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C.

Resurgence & Ecologist

Power, families and social workers

Andrew Papworth

Tim Fisher

| 19th November 2018

Maori traditions offer restorative justice model for healing family conflict.

The story of a recoverable earth

Paul Jepson

| 16th November 2018

A new narrative that emphasises regrowth and possibility could provide the hope we need.
Tribute to a hero of organic farming

Satish Kumar

| 14th November 2018

My fond memories of Lord Peter Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace.
Plenty of buzz - but no sting

Philip Strange

| 13th November 2018

Book Review: Thor Hanson's 'Buzz' is gently persuasive but lets humans off the hook.
Practising what we preach - on plastics

Laura Briggs

| 9th November 2018

The Resurgence & Ecologist magazine has ditched the plastic wrap after a year of searching for the most sustainable solution.
A stitch in time

Marianne Brown

| 8th November 2018

Vintage Shetland Project reveals connections between wearer, maker and the world around them.
Novel ecosystems in the deep sea

Oliver Tickell

| 24th October 2018

Innovative research is uncovering previously unknown species in deep seas vulnerable to over-fishing, pollution and habitat destruction.

Unearthed

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.
UK lobbied to weaken EU waste incinerator rules

Emma Howard

| 26th October 2018

The UK opposed stricter rules on the emissions of nitrogen oxides and monitoring of mercury.
UK plastics found in Malaysia's illegal dumps

Alice Ross

| 23rd October 2018

Packaging of brands familiar from UK supermarkets found strewn across multiple sites thousands of miles away.
Aid ‘scaled back’ since the Brexit referendum

Joe Sandler Clarke

| 19th October 2018

International development programmes promoting water security and helping refugees in Uganda have been hit by the fall in the value of the pound.
Monsanto lobbyists 'led pro-glyphosate farmers'

Arthur Neslen

| 18th October 2018

American agrochemical giant Monsanto paid a public-affairs consultancy up to €200,000 to set up a ‘grassroots farmers’ operation across Europe.

Clear on Climate

Who actually wants new oil pipelines?

Chris Saltmarsh

| 12th November 2018

Indigenous Environmental Network's lawsuit blocked construction of Keystone XL.

Towards a 'Global Deal for Nature and People'

Tony Juniper

| 9th November 2018

There is public demand for action on global warming, now we need political will.
Why Lilley voted against climate action

Brendan Montague

| 9th November 2018

Peter Lilley MP was among just five Parliamentarians to vote against the Climate Change Act in the Commons in 2008. Here's why.
Lawson's climate denial political comeback

Brendan Montague

| 8th November 2018

Fakenomics: The global economy was in a death spiral and Britain was at the centre of the financial tornado.
The Paris climate gang is breaking up

Sara Stefanini

| 6th November 2018

A group of countries banded together to shape the global climate pact in In 2015 - but political turmoil is pulling the alliance apart ahead of the next climate conference.
Climate consciousness requires political pressure

Teresa Belton

| 5th November 2018

Rutger Bregman and Steven Pinker have missed the point. Effective resistance to global temperature rise will need a fresh narrative.
IPCC bets on the renewables revolution

Jim Green - Nuclear Monitor

| 2nd November 2018

Nuclear accounts for a small fraction of energy in the IPCC's low-carbon scenarios. Renewables do the heavy lifting.

Fakenomics

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.

The men behind Britain's climate denying charity

Brendan Montague

| 12th November 2018

The secret history of the formation of Britain's most influential climate denial outfit.
Why Lilley voted against climate action

Brendan Montague

| 9th November 2018

Peter Lilley MP was among just five Parliamentarians to vote against the Climate Change Act in the Commons in 2008. Here's why.
Lawson's climate denial political comeback

Brendan Montague

| 8th November 2018

Fakenomics: The global economy was in a death spiral and Britain was at the centre of the financial tornado.
Remember Obama's 2008 climate promises?

Brendan Montague

| 7th November 2018

We recall an American presidential hopeful apparently willing to take on Koch and big oil.
How free markets will cost the earth

Brendan Montague

| 6th November 2018

Fakenomics: neoliberalism almost broke capitalism - so what might this tell us about free markets and the environment?
Matt Ridley would turn planet into Northern Rock

Brendan Montague

| 5th November 2018

A decade ago Britain was on the precipice of collapse. Matt Ridley was at Northern Rock when the crisis began. Now he wants us to listen to him on climate risks.

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.