Category: environment and the natural world

Circle of Life

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.

The agencies supposed to protect the living world have been neutered, and polluters and wildlife destroyers now have a free hand.

Why does the Welsh government propose this gratuitous act of destruction? It refuses to say.

In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.

The hideous pollution case I stumbled on illustrates our failure to see the harm caused by animal farming.

There may be water on Mars. But is there intelligent life on Earth?