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Coconut oil production may be more damaging to the environment than palm oil, researchers say.

Strong and consistent carbon price has public support and can help UK government fund green recovery, new report finds.

Conservatives previously pledged £9.2 billion for energy efficiency, including £2.9 billion for public buildings and £6.3 billion for low income homes and social housing.

A post-Covid world must genuinely value care, embrace vulnerability, and attack the existing structures of privilege.

Activists have taken to the trees to halt HS2 construction that threatens to fell tracts of north-London nature reserve.

Corporations are busy weaponising obscure legal instruments to sue government for their actions to save lives and jobs during the coronavirus crisis.

Temperatures in Arctic Siberia were exceptionally warm, C3S experts said.

Greenpeace: "BP's rig operator Transocean has sought to punish us for trying to protect the planet."

Paiakan died in an ill-equipped hospital in Redensao, as one of over 300 indigenous people who had contracted Covid-19 by the end of June. 

The cultural sector has been decimated by the Covid pandemic. Yet it should be at the heart of a just and green recovery.

Urgent action is needed nationwide as Japan becomes a hotspot for insect loss.

Learn from Covid-19 pandemic to prevent environmental catastrophe, scientists argue.

🌳 Timber Festival is taking over The Ecologist today - celebrating the existence, rather than the passing, of a festival affected by the Covid-19 lockdown.

🌳 An extract from Hendrikus van Hensbergen's forthcoming book for young people: How You Can Save the Planet.

🌳 Natural capital and the transition to different economies and values.