Editor’s Picks

Rishi Sunak, the UK's Prime Minister, blasted for ‘failure of leadership’ by snubbing Cop27 climate summit

Rishi Sunak, the latest UK prime minister, restores fracking ban in move hailed as ‘victory for common sense’.

The Tory government in the UK is failing on its promise to protect 30% of land and seas.

The combined impacts of climate and oil and gas prices have driven up average UK household food bills by a total of £11.4 billion.

Activists are facing repression and the fossil economy is fighting to grow - there is no point crying over spilt soup.

We need a radical food system transformation to drastically steer us away from climate breakdown.

Scientists are urging the Biden administration to protect the endangered Gulf of Mexico whale from extinction - which are under threat due to fossil fuel extraction. 

For the women of Guazapa, El Salvador, the bicycle has become a sign of freedom, sustainability and empowerment.

A new Vegan Society campaign encourages small dietary shifts for big environmental benefits.

A decade of recording intimidation, violence and murder against environmental defenders reveals war on nature.

Labour government 'would make Britain the first major country in the world to set and achieve the target of zero-carbon power by 2030'.

The threat posed to nature and society by the massive expansion of industrial, fossil fuel economies was discussed by a generation of authors 60 years ago. What can they teach us today?

Liz Truss's decision to overturn the fracking ban in the UK is reigniting grassroots resistance.

'The urgency to learn from Ukraine is now existential for the rest of the world.'

The climate emergency is a lived reality across the Global South - we must have action not words from COP27.

The risk of dangerous, cascading tipping points in natural systems escalates above 1.5°C of global warming, states a recent study.

The rise of climate sceptics to new prime minister Liz Truss’s cabinet has sparked fear that climate action will be scaled back.

The Ecologist today publishes Strategy 2023-6 promising a greater focus on the impacts of the fossil fuel economy - and a vision of a regenerative future.

Climate justice activists allege heightened levels of police brutality at latest Ende Gelände action in Hamburg, Germany.

How to buy high protein vegan foods at the supermarket on a tight budget.

Fossil fuel dependency is driving up the cost of living.

If we heed the warning from the financial collapse of 2008, a complex system degrading towards chaos, we can avoid a food systems collapse that could cost millions of lives.

Environment Agency data shows water companies are failing to monitor sewage discharges along the coastline including at British seaside resorts.

Is the UK Labour party the party of labour - or the party of the oil industrial complex? A short history.