Category: environment and the natural world

Putting the Con into Consultation

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?

The Ecomodernists launching their manifesto today propose solutions that are both ignorant and brutal.

Living as if seen from the future.

When governments lobby in favour of air pollution, you can be pretty sure there’s corruption involved.

Rebuilding our relationship with the natural world can re-animate our own lives, as well as the ecosystem.

The European Union is becoming ever harder for progressives to love. Is it time to get out?

What better symbol of a regenerating Scotland could there be than a new network of national parks?

In defending the natural world, we should be honest about our motivations – it’s love that drives us, not money.

New insights from the deep past should transform the way we work with forests.

The destruction of some of the last of the huge animals that shaped us inflicts a great wound in our lives.

The astonishing, multiple crises caused by chicken farming.

The return of Britain’s otters offers a glimpse of rewilding’s great rewards

The destruction of cultural treasures by ISIS has parallels in ecological cleansing around the world.