A community renewable energy company was seriously let down by the grid - a stark warning for Britain's necessary transition to low carbon energy.

Jackdaw gas field approval triggers backlash from environmentalists. Approving Jackdaw shows the toxic grip fossil fuel lobbyists still hold over our energy policy. Andy Burnham, the British prime ...

More than half of the Ecuadorian Amazon has been marked for oil drilling. The research took place in Quichua communities ...

What does the approaching El Niño mean for the world’s economies - and for us? Britain will be particularly badly hit: a quarter of the food we import is grown in the most at-risk areas of the world.

An anthropologist reflects on Great Nicobar’s ancient forests and Indigenous lifeways. This island paradise may soon disappear. The monsoon has the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in its grip. From ...

The world has a new way to make money from the Amazon. Indigenous peoples and traditional communities could find themselves serving a more hostile economy. Nature doesn’t operate on an investment fund ...

Green groups call for Andy Burnham, the British PM, to end his silence on climate breakdown. If you can’t name the problem, how will the British public trust you to come up with the solution?

A special investigation reveals the strategic and structural failings in the British Government's attempts to decarbonise our homes. Social movements and labour must unify climate action with ...

Think tank estimates future costs of heatwaves to 2030 at least £25bn. Urgent action is needed from government to limit the damage. The record-breaking June 2026 heatwave that saw temperatures ...

Professor Herbert 'Herbie' Girardet recently retired as a trustee of the Resurgence Trust, owner and publisher of The Ecologist. Here, we examine his contribution to environmental thought. Can we ever ...

How governments use tricks and exaggerations to greenwash renewable energy statistics. The leaders of the world are failing. We can only rescue ourselves and each other if we actually know what is ...

England could see meat from gene edited animals sold in shops very soon. What are the ethical implications of this technology? From a justice point of view, you should never be industry-led on ...