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  • Druridge Bay

    Victory for Druridge Bay protesters

    Tom Wilkinson
     | 9th September 2020
    Banks Mining application for Highthorn near Druridge Bay, Northumberland, turned down by communities secretary Robert Jenrick.
  • Future Normal

    Future Normal – are you ready?

    Louise Davies
     | 9th September 2020
    As The Vegan Society launches a new campaign questioning our relationship with animals, their campaigns head, Louise Davies, explains the thinking behind it.
  • Badger

    Is DIVA bovine TB test a breakthrough?

    Tom Langton
     | 9th September 2020
    Defra’s March 2020 policy emphasis towards bovine TB vaccination of cattle in England is associated with optimistic noise - but will the exalted tests bring progress?
  • Hornbill

    The fate of a fragmented forest

    Sartaj Ghuman
     | 9th September 2020
    Fragmentation is one of the biggest threats that our wild habitats face today. But new research can help mitigate its effects and revive degraded landscapes.

  • XR or Murdoch?

    Dr Steve Melia
     | 8th September 2020
    Environmental NGOs criticising XR for taking on Murdoch have an opportunity to prove their efficacy - COP26.

International

  • Illegal gold mine

    Deforestation in Colombia

    Daniel Henryk Rasolt
     | 17th August 2020
    Colombia is the world’s most biodiverse country by area, but its rich forested ecosystems are facing existential threats.
  • Food sovereignty protest

    Gates 'failing green revolution in Africa'

    Stacy Malkan
     | 14th August 2020
    Green revolution is locking African farmers into a system that is not designed for their benefit, but for Northern multinational corporations.
  • 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.
  • Esther Stanford-Xosei

    Reparations and the fight for life

    Esther Stanford-Xosei
     | 31st July 2020
    Extinction Rebellion Internationalist Solidarity Network is joining with Stop the Maangamizi and African Emancipation Day Reparations March to lock down Brixton Road on Saturday 1 August.

Change makers

  • XR Murdoch shutdown

    'Tell the truth'

    Gully Bujak
     | 8th September 2020
    How can we have a true and free democracy without a free press?
  • Amigos de la tierra

    Principles for a just recovery

    Friends of the Earth International
     | 26th August 2020
    Recovery does not mean going 'back to normal'. This is the time to prioritise justice, sustainability, human rights, and the protection of livelihoods and the planet.
  • Phulbari Solidarity

    After the massacre

    Marianne Brooker
     | 25th August 2020
    Vigils in London and Bangladesh mark fourteenth anniversary of the Phulbari Massacre.
  • Twyford Rising

    Twyford Down protests re-lived in new book

    Brendan Montague
     | 20th August 2020
    Twyford Rising is not just a great story, but helps us understand today’s protests and is packed with inspiration for current campaigners.
  • Keep it in the Ground banner

    Challenging climate colonialism

    Elias Koenig
     | 10th August 2020
    This weekend's wave of direct action in Germany shows that we can and should take climate justice into our own hands.
  • Protesters against Horse Hill oil wells

    Horse Hill oil wells judicial review

    Marianne Brooker
     | 23rd July 2020
    Expansion of Surrey oil wells would have a much wider impact on the wider population, future generations and the fight to halt climate change.

Thought Leaders

  • Hornbill

    The fate of a fragmented forest

    Sartaj Ghuman
     | 9th September 2020
    Fragmentation is one of the biggest threats that our wild habitats face today. But new research can help mitigate its effects and revive degraded landscapes.
  • Goat

    A four-footed fire prevention squad?

    Dawn Starin
     | 26th August 2020
    Herds of goats are used to rid the earth of grasses and shrubs that could be a fire hazard, from the US to the Mediterranean,
  • Arlene Foster

    The fire and the fury

    Thomas Muinzer
     | 20th August 2020
    Northern Ireland’s renewable heat scandal and constitutional issues explained.

  • The end of coal in County Durham

    Isobel Tarr
     | 19th August 2020
    Far from 'hippies versus miners', this was a former mining community which took on a developer and won, again and again.
  • Wild Rumpus

    Beyond the Timber Takeover

    Sarah Bird
     | 17th August 2020
    'Forests are resilient, adaptive, multifaceted, and have offered us real hope that we could find a way through the crisis.'

Science & systems

  • 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.

Extinction Rebellion

  • XR or Murdoch?

    Dr Steve Melia
     | 8th September 2020
    Environmental NGOs criticising XR for taking on Murdoch have an opportunity to prove their efficacy - COP26.
  • XR Murdoch shutdown

    'Tell the truth'

    Gully Bujak
     | 8th September 2020
    How can we have a true and free democracy without a free press?
  • XR x Exxon

    XR v Exxon

    Brendan Montague
     | 28th August 2020
    Eco-activists demonstrate outside ExxonMobil’s HQ to demand end to oil production and greenwashing.
  • Esther Stanford-Xosei

    Reparations and the fight for life

    Esther Stanford-Xosei
     | 31st July 2020
    Extinction Rebellion Internationalist Solidarity Network is joining with Stop the Maangamizi and African Emancipation Day Reparations March to lock down Brixton Road on Saturday 1 August.
  • Act Now

    Anti-racism and Extinction Rebellion

    Ian Haney López
    Nuala Gathercole Lam
    Roger Hallam
     | 22nd June 2020
    'We must do the hard work of building racial justice into the DNA of our movement.'

Resurgence & Ecologist

  • Daisy

    Hope in the extreme

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

    At a crossroads

    Marianne Brown
     | 25th June 2020
    The road beyond crisis has to encompass transformation.

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.

  • 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?