Category: environment and the natural world

Abbottalypse Now

Tony Abbott intends to trash Australia on behalf of the super-rich.

The Lake District’s bid for World Heritage status shows just what a mess conservation is in.

Why are almost all the trees that councils plant exotic species?

We’re just beginning to understand the wider impacts of neonicotinoids.

De-extinction sounds like a great idea. But there’s a problem most people have overlooked.

A radical challenge to British conservation and its bizarre priorities.

It’s time we confronted the National Farmers’ Union and the millionaires it works for.

The ignorance and philistinism of those who attack nature lovers knows no bounds.

Is it really possible? Yes, I think it is.

Why do farmers’ groups indulge in such ridiculous scaremongering about the restoration of the natural world?

A brilliant and beautiful animation.

Our Newsnight film about rewilding.

Robert MacFarlane interviews George Monbiot about rewilding.

A mass restoration of ecosystems offers us hope where there was little hope before.

Somehow almost all of us have missed the real story behind the disappearance of our wildlife.

Amazingly, the UK government has not defined the precautionary principle and appears to have no idea what it is.

How government science advisers misrepresent science.

If the “hardest-worked river in the world” can recover to this extent, almost anything is possible.

Devolving policy to “the market” doesn’t solve the problem of power. It makes it worse.

How the government betrayed its promises to protect our seas.