Editors’ Picks

'I'm eighteen and can already see my Alaska community changed forever by climate change. I’ve seen glaciers shrink, summer droughts and deadly landslides – and our elected officials are doing nothing.'

The wildfires in California are a sign that the climate crisis is coming for both rich and poor countries. But how many more signs do we need before we take serious action?

Mining giant BHP was complicit in the Samarco mining disaster in Brazil but the company has not learned from the experience.

The recent uptick in the ferocity and frequency of extreme weather events is evidence of an acceleration of climate impacts, some of which were underestimated by climate computer models.

The abundance of skate, bass, cuttlefish and John Dory in Lyme Bay speaks for itself - the sea-bed’s recovery has been rapid and spectacular.

Recovery does not mean going 'back to normal'. This is the time to prioritise justice, sustainability, human rights, and the protection of livelihoods and the planet.

Is HS2 just a vanity project that will gobble up £200bn, promote aviation and trash 108 ancient woodlands. The Ecologist investigates.

Colombia is the world’s most biodiverse country by area, but its rich forested ecosystems are facing existential threats.

Green revolution is locking African farmers into a system that is not designed for their benefit, but for Northern multinational corporations.

Corporations in India can explore shale gas reserves without obtaining environmental clearances.

An interview with George Monbiot and audio of his talk at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London.

A review of Andreas Malm's Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century.

Climate targets will remain a pipe dream as long as financiers fill the boardrooms of fossil fuel companies, and oil barons are rewarded with prestigious positions in our financial system.

The targeting of environmental justice groups shows how the Modi government's criminalization of dissent is gaining pace.

This weekend's wave of direct action in Germany shows that we can and should take climate justice into our own hands.

The Paris Agreement threw a lifeline to millions of people of colour facing a premature death, but Trump is tearing that away.

Extinction Rebellion Internationalist Solidarity Network is joining with Stop the Maangamizi and African Emancipation Day Reparations March to lock down Brixton Road on Saturday 1 August.

UK's new trade and agriculture commission must address the dangers and inequalities rife in meat farming and processing.

It's time to imagine a more resilient future for the Lake District and all its communities, a future in which wild nature and thriving biodiversity is central.

Museums have a responsibility to speak out about the climate and ecological emergency.

Response measures have forced coastal communities in South Asia to choose between a super cyclonic storm or shelters with no physical distancing.

Jem Bendell's popular self-published paper has been platformed by Extinction Rebellion, but relies on pseudoscience to come to inaccurate and harmful conclusions.

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.