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Rigging the Market

Oil, the industry that threatens us with destruction, is being bailed out with public money

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

I see the people on trial for occupying a runway at Heathrow as democratic heroes.

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

Who is most responsible for high abortion rates? The religious right.

How the government learnt absolutely nothing from the recent floods.

An ability to contest the circumstances of our birth is an essential element of our humanity.

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

The joints of meat that do more damage than a long-haul flight

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.

The COP21 climate talks in Paris were not the success that governments claim, but a disastrous failure.

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

There are plenty of real problems with aircraft emissions. But thousands of people are obsessed instead with a fairy tale.

Why is the government so quick to bomb, yet so slow to act on climate change?

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.

A leaked letter from David Cameron offers a remarkable – and terrifying – insight into his mind.