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A Planet in Square Brackets

The draft global plan for saving biodiversity contains no firm proposals at all.

Progressive causes are failing: here’s how they could be turned around

We appear to be incapable of dealing with invasive species while there’s still time.

Here are the biodiversity challenges we’ll be pressing governments to meet

Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can’t afford to use existing reserves?

Why does a crazy set of beliefs in one field seem to migrate into unrelated subjects?

It’s already clear that the climate talks in December will go nowhere – so what do we do?

Those who made false accusations against Rajendra Pachauri are now turning their fire on me.

Here are some green pioneers whose work is worth celebrating.

A new book has forced me to reconsider my views on food.

The people hounding him have failed to produce a single scrap of evidence to support their accusations, yet there’s no let-up.

The report we publish for the first time today proves that the serious charges made against Rajendra Pachauri are completely untrue.

Why climate science divides people along political lines.

Green enthusiasm for vertical farms shows that no one is untouched by magical thinking.

Talking has so far done nothing to protect the world’s biodiversity. So we’re launching a new campaign to get governments to act.

How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.

The Conservative war on road safety has begun

If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there’s no justice in Britain.

The results of our competition to name England’s threatened species are stunning.

The government’s disastrous new deregulation programme means that the poor will be fouled by the rich.