Category: environment and the natural world

Black Box

Unesco’s tragicomic aversion to public engagement.

Another deadly tree disease threatens these islands, but the government will do nothing to keep it out.

We have enough physical and ecological space for public luxury for all. But not enough for private luxury for all.

The attempt to turn the Lake District into a World Heritage site would be a disaster

Those who claim to be “conservatives” would shred the very fabric of the nation.

By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.

Kayaking with basking sharks provides a glimpse of the wonders we could experience if our seas are rewilded.

Consumerism occupies a sacred and inviolable space, while the wonders of the living world are dispensable.

Want to cast someone into the outer darkness? Then give them the environment department, that should be the most important portfolio of all.

Academic standards go up in smoke in a wildly biased paper on burning in the British uplands.

My interview, in his 90th year, with Sir David Attenborough

National park authorities inflict mass destruction on wildlife and habitats, then call it conservation

How the government learnt absolutely nothing from the recent floods.

How public money and crazy policies speed water off the land and into our homes

Rewilding, hillwalking and the extraordinary history of these islands.

The remarkable decline in violence between humans suggests that we could also restrain our violence against the planet.

Censoring official advice, stripping the hills and rivers, the government ensures that disasters like the Cumbria floods will keep recurring.

An online tool that changes your answers is not the only problem with this attempt to fake public consent for dredging a dolphin reserve.

The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake.

It’s about time we discussed the real population crisis.