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An open letter to Shabana Mahmood, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, about prisons from Just Stop Oil activists currently behind bars.

'If I am going to carry on writing for The Ecologist I need at least 100 of you to commit several hours of your time to running a mini-assembly.'

A prediction, a sudden death, and decades of struggle in Madagascar.

A play dramatising the crucial final hours of negotiations that resulted in the Kyoto Protocol opens in London today.

A look back at 1820s Britain lends hope, but also the realisation that British animal protection has failed.

'Climate change is the biggest threat to UK food security.'

The economic sabre-rattling between the United States and China risks an escalation to actual war.

'When I get out of this place (prison, that is), I’ll be straight on the road, speaking to people around the country. I might call it The Fanatic Tour.'

The Extinction Rebellion founders’ reliance on the momentum model was a crucial factor in the project’s early innovations and successes.

‘The first step is local communities becoming responsible for the production, storage, and distribution of renewable energy.’

How those in power get away with abuse, blame the victims, and claim to be our saviours.

From utopia to reality: fare-free public transport in Brazil.

At a crucial time in discussions around how to link climate and nature, this is an opportune moment to make the case for integrated action on climate change and nature loss.

'This World Soil Day I’m at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification COP16 in Riyadh arguing that farmers cannot be sidelined in the climate finance debate.'

Researchers at the International Potato Centre near Beijing are growing miniature spuds in conditions mimicking temperatures increases of three degrees.

We need an economy that meets human needs while remaining in harmony with nature. But what policies are necessary to turn the juggernaut around?

Glasgow: how free transport drives better health and happiness.

COP29 fizzled out as catastrophe looms. Could a tipping point in political consciousness still stave off the worst?

Free public transport in France: paving the way to a greener and more equal future.

A review of 'We Need To Talk About Climate: How Citizens’ Assemblies Can Help Us Solve The Climate Crisis' by Graham Smith.

How do we manage democracy within our movements?

'Crude Capitalism' provides a history of oil that helps dissect the many-headed hydra.

Workers chained to fossil fuels unite - we have nothing to lose but our world.

Herbert Girardet reviews We Will Not Be Saved: A Memoir of Hope and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson.