Thanks to disgraceful government failures, an illegal waste-dumping mafia is now burning and burying millions of tonnes of dangerous materials.
Category: environment and the natural world
Level Down
The living world is being hit by everything at once: the only way to stop our full-spectrum assault on Earth systems is to reduce our economic activity.
Noble Rot
Protecting the natural world means creating tomorrow’s ancient habitats.
Shitstorm
Our team uncovers the remarkable, but scarcely understood, truth about river pollution.
This Stinks
Our rivers and seas are being transformed into open sewers by greedy business and useless governments.
Sea Change
At last people are waking up to the fishing industry’s devastating impacts.
The Tyranny of Hope
World summits and politicians’ promises are not taking us closer to environmental salvation, but further away.
Watery Grave
Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.
Dysbiosis
The great majority of people do not want to return to business-as-usual after the pandemic, but our governments are determined to make us do so.
Road to Perdition
How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?
The Extinguishing of Joy
The boats supplying the fish we eat are killing dolphins so fast that they are heading towards extinction.
Washout
Despite growing awareness, our government still allows landowners to help flood the homes of people living downstream.
Life Enhancing
Allowing the seas to recover from the outrageous assaults of commercial fishing can help heal our own wounded lives.
Platform for the Planet
The political parties have finally woken up to the environmental crisis. But the media hasn’t
Embarrassment of Riches
For the sake of life on Earth, we should set an upper limit on the money any person can amass.
Ash to Ashes
Thanks to shocking failures of government, every tree, almost everywhere, is now threatened by killer plagues
Net Curtains
Industrial fishing is the biggest threat to our blue planet. So why don’t we act on it?
The Problem is Capitalism
It is a weapon pointed at the living world. We urgently need to develop a new system.
No More Excuses
No one is coming to save us. Only rebellion will prevent an environmental apocalypse
Rewild the World
We launch a new campaign to allow ecosystems to recover on a massive scale, drawing down carbon from the atmosphere