Lord Lawson is Britain's leading climate denier and claims warnings from scientists are alarmist. But Lawson as chancellor fundamentally failed to understand complex systems - and failed to raise the alarm. That didn't stop him making a personal fortune. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Mayor of Malton Paul Andrews has started private legal proceedings against the government by applying for a Judicial Review to challenge a recent Written Ministerial Statement on fracking. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
ELISA HORNETT and RITA MENDONCA report on a life-affirming canoe expedition along Brazil’s Xingu River to visit communities who say their land and livelihoods have been violated by the building of a hydroelectric plant
Margaret Thatcher was at the height of her premiership when she took to the podium at the United Nations general assembly on the global environment held at the UN building in New York on 8 November 1989, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE
Scientists had well understood for many decades that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere could raise global temperatures and cause climate change. But when politicians finally took notice, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was formed, industry began a war with science itself. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
Mountain hare numbers on moorlands in the eastern Highlands have declined to less than one percent of their initial levels, according to a newly published long-term scientific study. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
Thatcherism was the implementation of neoliberalism - the school of free market economics led by Friedrich von Hayek. This school claimed economics was a science that should direct society and social policy. But, strangely, Hayek felt science itself should be avoided - as it led to socialism. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
For too long vegans and farmers have been pitted against each other. LOUISE DAVIES from The Vegan Society calls for a move on from the angry rhetoric and acceptance of the benefits of a plant-based food system for the whole of society.
