Category: environment and the natural world

Deep Peace in Techno-Utopia

A new film on Channel 4 disses the greens while dodging the issue of power.

Everyone agrees that the new declaration on biodiversity is a triumph. Just one snag: it doesn’t appear to exist.

The draft global plan for saving biodiversity contains no firm proposals at all.

We appear to be incapable of dealing with invasive species while there’s still time.

Here are the biodiversity challenges we’ll be pressing governments to meet

Here are some green pioneers whose work is worth celebrating.

Talking has so far done nothing to protect the world’s biodiversity. So we’re launching a new campaign to get governments to act.

The results of our competition to name England’s threatened species are stunning.

The companies now threatening to sue BP have only themselves to blame.

Matt Ridley only digs his hole deeper as he attempts to justify his distortions.

Industrial civilisation is trashing the environment. Should we try to reform it or just watch it go down?

Here’s one small way in which the collapse of biodiversity could be slowed

People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor

The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping

I set out to catch all my own fish, and live the wild life again

A debate with Paul Kingsnorth

Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry?

Why are plastic bags treated as the root of environmental evil?

The debate over biochar hots up.

Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe: the plan to solve climate change with biochar