Despite growing awareness, our government still allows landowners to help flood the homes of people living downstream. Read more.
Category: environment and the natural world
Allowing the seas to recover from the outrageous assaults of commercial fishing can help heal our own wounded lives. Read more.
The political parties have finally woken up to the environmental crisis. But the media hasn’t Read more.
For the sake of life on Earth, we should set an upper limit on the money any person can amass. Read more.
Thanks to shocking failures of government, every tree, almost everywhere, is now threatened by killer plagues Read more.
Industrial fishing is the biggest threat to our blue planet. So why don’t we act on it? Read more.
It is a weapon pointed at the living world. We urgently need to develop a new system. Read more.
No one is coming to save us. Only rebellion will prevent an environmental apocalypse Read more.
We launch a new campaign to allow ecosystems to recover on a massive scale, drawing down carbon from the atmosphere Read more.
Those who destroy the living world should be charged with the international crime of ecocide Read more.
The UK government is flagrantly flouting its own rules, allowing our scrap tyres to be sent to India for burning. Read more.
By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance. Read more.
How an animal welfare charity ended up endorsing seal killing – and what this says about our age Read more.
The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism. Read more.
As state bodies are dismantled, corporations are freed to rip the living world apart Read more.
As our wildlife and ecosystems collapse, remembering is a radical act. Read more.
The “natural capital” agenda is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous, and most of all counter-productive Read more.
Steven Pinker claims to champion Enlightenment values. But his latest book is an affront to them Read more.
Our national parks are ecological deserts, run for the benefit of a tiny minority. It’s time we reclaimed them. Read more.
An astonishing new field of enquiry explores the deep changes that could avert a planetary disaster Read more.