Category: environment and the natural world

The Keys to the Blood Bank

The Conservative minister charged with protecting wildlife is making a packet as a result of weak wildlife protection laws.

Peak Stuff?

Could it be true that resource use is reduced by economic growth?

Arrested Development

The wild boar cull should be halted, and we should stop confusing conservation with gardening.

Mutually Assured Depletion

The EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroes all blame each other for smashing the last great fish stock. All are wrong.

Jellyfish Rule

Have I just witnessed the beginning of the end of vertebrate ecology?

Shaking the Tree

The British government’s demolition programme is now moving on to the environment.

The Lost World

Where is the environmental vision that can resist the planet-wrecking project?

Power Trips

What could be sillier and more invidious than the Observer’s “eco-power list”?

A Charming Falsehood

While pressing Stewart Brand to admit he was wrong, it seems that I might have stumbled across a new tactic in the corporate propaganda war.