'With little more than an overnight bag, our phones and laptops, Geoff and I found ourselves standing with ash on our faces, smoke in our hair, and in a new world shifted on its axis.'
Financial connections between some of the world’s most controversial corporations and leading UK engineering and science organisations uncovered in new research.
The fossil fuel industry could take important measures to mitigate climate change, but devotes itself to the opposite. The real scandal is their unwillingness to invest in renewables.
Farmers’ organisations, trade union federations, indigenous peoples, fisher groups, women’s organisations, environmental groups and progressive political parties met in Hyderabad, South India.
The sustainability of cities is inextricably linked to the sustainability of distant places. We need a new, integrated approach to planetary stewardship to address this challenge.
BHP is putting pressure on vulnerable ecosystems and communities in a mega-biodiverse region of Ecuador despite flaunting its commitment to environmental sustainability.
Have we forgotten the inherently tangled, interdependent nature of ecosystems, the ecological value of old-growth, the microcosm of habitats provided by diversity?
'The WWF has ruined the forest ... The forest needs us and we need the forest. But now we go inside as if we were thieves and they hit us with their machetes when we do.'
Environmental campaigners Greenpeace criticise financial sector for continuing to finance fossil fuels, despite dire warnings about the state of the climate.
Irresponsible tactics are being used to bury social and environmental problems associated with the Fukushima nuclear disaster as Olympics approach in Japan.
