Ecologist Writers' Fund

Shared exploitation: how Spanish-Portuguese competition fostered drought.

How drought-provoked water scarcity is creating tensions between Portugal and Spain.

Dismantling Green Colonialism is topical and timely, with chapters emphasising the greenwashing of settler colonialism in Palestine.

The End We Start From is a powerful but imperfect exploration of motherhood in a drowned world.

Bethlehem this Christmas will be a site of war and occupation, rather than peace and celebration.

We need to build alliance in the very heart of economic and political power in order to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

Ecuador's successful referendum should protect vital biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest.

The Ende Gelände climate camp this August allowed activists to come together and discuss strategy. We urgently need such spaces in Britain.

Guy Smallman has been documenting protest for decades. This week he noticed a change in the public's response to Just Stop Oil.

Climate breakdown is causing mental breakdown. (Trigger warning: suicide).

Fighting between the rebel group M23 and government forces leaves mountain Gorillas in Virunga National Park unprotected. 

Pakistan is suffering the worst floods in history as a result of climate breakdown. We must change how we relate to nature to prevent further calamities.

A rise in the number of macaques removed from the wild for research laboratories poses a major threat to the now endangered species.

Artisanal fishers are pushing back against a growing wave of land reclamation projects across the Peninsular Malaysia.

We need environmental reporters who will widen the scope of a narrow media lens.

'My solar ironing cart shows we have the technology to stop climate breakdown.'

Exposing the international failure to investigate, let alone treat, climate-related mental health issues in the Global South.

Farmers in the İşkencedere Valley, a region drowning in tragedy, are fighting against government-backed ecocide.

The fragile ecology of the Himalayan region has been increasingly devastated by dams, heavy infrastructure projects and climate breakdown.

Long Read: Economics has been dominated by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of success. But ecological economics measures welfare and sustainability instead.

Climate breakdown will stress essential food crops. Scientists and farmers in India are working together to find a solution for chickpeas.

Ireland has been identified as a hotspot in the European mining boom. Women across the country are fighting back.

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