Monica Piccinini

Professor Herbert 'Herbie' Girardet recently retired as a trustee of the Resurgence Trust, owner and publisher of The Ecologist. Here, we examine his contribution to environmental thought.

Climate funding given by Britain to Brazil comes with ambition but with less clear impacts for communities, forests and emissions.

The Amazon is being drawn into financial systems that reshape how nature is valued, and how success is measured.

Indigenous leaders, traditional communities and researchers are resisting development in the Amazon rainforest that could push its ecosystems past irreversible tipping points.

Scientists warn Brazil is entering a hidden water crisis with global consequences.

Brazil’s Cerrado is being transformed by industrial agriculture - with British trade playing a direct role in the loss of water systems, biodiversity and climate stability.

Polluted rivers, collapsing ecosystems and communities left adrift. And now Britain’s water privatisation concept is being exported to Brazil.

Climate breakdown, fungal disease, and the Brazilian hospital on the frontline of a heating world.

Wes Streeting, the secretary of state for Health and Social Care, must find funding for research Into invasive lobular breast cancer.

PAN UK is calling on the British Government to rethink its new pesticide-reduction strategy, which now only covers crops like grains.

Global leaders attend meetings under the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, pledging ambition, justice and preservation.

Can we really offset our way out of the climate crisis?

COP30 countdown: the banks financing the Amazon’s oil addiction.

Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be paid bonuses for killing suspects. Aimed at organized crime, the law will hit ethnic minorities - and eco-activists.

Biotech is no longer just science: it’s a tool that is rewriting what life looks like.

As Brazil prepares to host the COP30 conference this November, its adoption of bioeconomics could be a beacon of hope for the world - or another missed opportunity.

The BR-319 threatens the Amazon in the name of ‘progress’ and politics.

The world’s food systems are dangerously dependent on fossil fuels, and this addiction is driving both climate chaos and food insecurity.

COP30 Spotlight: counting the cost of Amazon hydropower to local indigenous communities.

BR-319: Paving the way for Indigenous displacement and environmental catastrophe.

Brazil’s new pesticide law: no safe distance from toxic exposure.

Supermarkets turn a blind eye to methane emissions from meat and dairy industry.

Will Brazil step up as a climate leader before COP30?

Solar geoengineering, if weaponised, has the potential to deepen global inequality and escalate conflicts worldwide.