Category: environment and the natural world

Life is Elsewhere

In both Russia and Canada a bloodbath of wolves is now taking place.

2012 was the worst year for the environment in living memory.

Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it.

Biodiversity offsets threaten both the survival and the meaning of nature.

So much for Norway’s eco-friendly image.

There’s a second environmental crisis, just as potent as the first.

Isn’t it about time the media stopped publishing recipes for threatened fish?

An open letter to the former ministers who appear to have let a devastating tree disease into the UK.

That’s what we should call the devastating ash disease now spreading across Britain.

How conservatism turned into an orgy of destruction.

If we lose the ash tree, we’ll lose culture as well as nature.

With the appointment of an anti-green as Environment Secretary, the pretence is over.

Could the rubbish published in the Observer about birds of prey be related to the author’s undisclosed interests?

In the name of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it.

A new front opens up in the war against nature.

The people cutting open bluefin tuna nets are heroes

So now what do we do to defend life on Earth?

The Rio Declaration rips up the basic principles of environmental action.

The summits which promise to save the world keep us dangling, not mobilising.

The UK’s marine reserves offer no meaningful protection to the life of the sea.