Brendan Montague

Brendan Montague is editor of The Ecologist, founder of Request Initiative and co-author of Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours: The web of influence of addictive industries (Oxford University Press). He tweets at @EcoMontague.

  • Climate activists act in concert

    Brendan Montague
     | 26th April 2021
    Climate Live is bringing artists, activists and young people together through music to unite in the fight for climate justice.

  • Support the Great Green Wall movement

    Brendan Montague
     | 12th April 2021
    The Metema forest in Ethiopia, gripped by the devastating effects of the climate crisis, could be extinct in 20 years without urgent action.

  • Big Fish tries to sink Seaspiracy

    Brendan Montague
     | 9th April 2021
    Fishing industry carping about Seapiracy drowns out the real scandal of biodiversity collapse in our oceans.

  • We need global vaccinations

    Brendan Montague
     | 30th March 2021
    Rich nations need to support global efforts to vaccinate populations to prevent dangerous variants of coronavirus mutating.

  • Ocean mammals face extinction

    Brendan Montague
     | 25th March 2021
    Scientists have found that accidental capture by fisheries (bycatch), climate change and pollution are among the key drivers of decline.

  • Fires, floods and media failures

    Brendan Montague
     | 19th March 2021
    There are hundreds of journalists publishing tens of thousands of articles attempting to hold power to account, attempting to educate the public about climate breakdown.

  • There is an 'I' in animal

    Brendan Montague
     | 12th March 2021
    A tiny fish has 'theory of mind'. So - Chris Packham asks in a new BBC series - what makes us humans so different from other animals?

  • Climate commons

    Brendan Montague
     | 11th March 2021
    Think tank calls for greater local stewardship of the net zero climate transition with community energy, heating, housing and natural assets.

  • Sunak's fossil fuel super tax break

    Brendan Montague
     | 8th March 2021
    Rishi Sunak's 'super deduction' budget announcement represents a massive tax break for fossil fuel companies - just ahead of the COP26 talks.
  • Food waste

    Waste not, want not

    Brendan Montague
     | 4th March 2021
    The Food Waste Index Report 2021 looks at food waste that occurs in retail outlets, restaurants and homes.

  • Tenet and the dialectic of climate Armageddon

    Brendan Montague
     | 4th March 2021
    Tenet, the action blockbuster, is a warning about the threat of climate Armageddon that shows how action blockbusters are part of the problem (spoilers).
  • Kids from XR Youth hold up placards at the September climate march

    Education when people and planet matter

    Brendan Montague
     | 1st March 2021
    Schumacher College, in partnership Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, is launching a major new essay competition on the topic of 'education as if people and planet matter’.

  • How to stop climate breakdown

    Brendan Montague
     | 11th February 2021
    Download FIGHT THE FIRE for free. 'The most concise and compelling guide to stopping climate breakdown currently available'.

  • Invertebrates living on plastic bags

    Brendan Montague
     | 25th January 2021
    Findings have important implications for management of urban rivers - including how river clean-ups are conducted. 
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