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If radical vegan Ingrid Newkirk has her way, the nouvelle cuisine on vegetarian menus in five years time may be a big juicy steak.

The Ecologist Film Unit's second release documents how espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of Government and big business to the increasingly vocal concerns of environmental protesters in the UK

The Ecologist Film Unit's second release documents how espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of Government and big business to the increasingly vocal concerns of environmental protesters in the UK.

It's back. The campaigning climate change programme The Two Degrees Show returns after more than a year's absence from the airwaves with a timely recap of some of the recent science.

In light of the Observer poll last month suggesting that 60% of the population agreed with the statement that "many scientific experts still question if humans are contributing to climate change"; just how solid is the scientific consensus that humans are responsible for most of the recent warming?

This week's guests are Professor Jo Haigh and Dr Stuart Parkinson who have both acted as expert reviewers for the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Consensus without commitment on climate change is the result of this year’s group of eight summit in Hokkaido, Japan.

Donald Trump, the American property tycoon, awaits acceptance of his proposal to build a five-star golf complex in Aberdeenshire from local councillors and the Scottish government.

The most eminent US scientist and head of Nasa, Dr James Hansen, has said that we have passed the tipping point for Arctic and Greenland ice loss. This has dramatic implications for the possible accelaration of the rate of climate change.

We discuss James Hansen's recent findings and their implications with Dr Stuart Parkinson and with Richard Hawkins of the Public Interest Research Centre

Derelict cottages restored to former glory, happy holidaymakers and revived communities – all the result of one man’s vision. Richard Hammond reports

A sobering, disturbing yet humorous look at the journey of a holiday resort 50 miles south of Palm Springs from utopia to apocalypse.

Heavy on the moralising, light on cheer, a new book on low-carbon living has Phil England reaching for the classics

Although the Dalai Lama says he is 80 per cent monk and 20 per cent politician, the focus of this documentary is largely political.

Hardy, long-lived and self-sufficient, perennial vegetables are a gardener’s dream. From rhubarb to the air potato, they are a gift that keeps on giving

The UK’s organic brewers are calling time on beer corporations, as Rachel Clode discovers

Seaweed is delicious, nutritious, a veritable cure-all and just one of the reasons Fergus Drennan does like to be beside the Great British seaside

Government and big business are countering resurgent eco activism with spies, strongarm tactics and news manipulation. Who are they calling terrorists? asks Andrew Wasley