The Ecologist

We have to tax the rich enough that our governments can spend enough to change the lives of the rest of us.

Welfare might depend not only on what a habitat was, but on what it allowed an animal to do: whether it could choose where to go.

River pollution, for instance, can reach communities downstream long before oil extraction enters their own territories.

A community renewable energy company was seriously let down by the grid.

Approval of Jackdaw gas field puts profit over people

“You just see them here swimming around,” Byfleet said. “But being here is like boot camp for the whales.”

When the economy isn’t working, people know it.

Environmental damage extends beyond individual oil projects

Britain’s largest community-owned solar project is struggling for survival after the local grid company stopped it from generating electricity for four months.

To all those people who argued for new UK gas fields to import less LNG: how do we heat our buildings in 2050 without building up a heat pump industry now?

We should never underestimate the power and influence of the fossil fuel companies. It’s a bit like the tobacco industry a few decades ago. Same play book. Only problem now is that we are running out of time.

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Outrage from climate campaigners as Jackdaw gas field gets the green light for new drilling

Even today, in the midst of climate breakdown, the interests of BP and Shell are mixed with the so called 'national interest'.

'For us, hope is not lost because the land will regenerate.'

"The relentless pursuit of a brighter horizon".

Andy Burnham's Labour Government is about to cut heat pump support to spend more on the military.

The Foreign Office is working hard around the world to help Shell and BP secure contracts to explore for and exploit ever more oil and gas fields.

'We didn’t want politicians, we wanted people who were passionate in what we believed in.'

The existing neoliberal paradigm does not work for us in the basic sense of maintaining our life support systems.

Slashing the heat pump scheme is a classic piece of Treasury short-term thinking.

Britain has long been an Empire based on fossil fuels.

Cutting down our forests for quick cash is like burning your house to stay warm for one night. We need forests more than forests need us. Protect our forests, protect our future. #SaveOurForests

The worst El Niño in a thousand years, it is set to take us past not just 1.5C of average global heating for a time, but 2C. A difference between what is merely dangerous climate change and absolute catastrophe.

Thanks in part to the over-use of pesticides, Britain's farmland is heading into a dangerous cycle. The swing from drought to flood every year is getting more dramatic each year.

Both drought and flood are symptoms of the same cause. It’s not that we don’t have enough water. It’s that our soils can’t absorb it when it comes.

Industrial farms pump antibiotics into animals - making an antibiotic resistance time bomb for us all.

A Green Party co-founder speaks to The Ecologist about the founding of the party, and their early vision for 'environmental and economic overhaul.'

Protesters speak out against new oil & gas projects at this critical point in the fight against climate catastrophe

The logical response to the failure of everything is a movement of everyone

Reminder: in his so-called "austerity" budget last year, Mark Carney deleted the luxury tax on private planes, yachts, and underused homes. #Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis #WealthTax #Inequality

I can get behind this in Canada too. Betting most Canadians would.

The Prime Minister is poised to make a decision on opening climate-catastrophic new oil fields.

Extinction Rebellion organiser speaks out on the need for a climate strategy that encompasses the whole of our society

"We didn’t want politicians, we wanted people who were passionate in what we believed in."

"Voters of all parties are sending a message to Westminster. They want change, starting with taking action to close this absurd tax loophole for the ultra-rich."

The worst El Niño in a thousand years, it is set to take us past not just 1.5C of average global heating for a time, but 2C.

As intensive farming drives antibiotic use, some of the medicines we have come to depend on are losing their power.

Both drought and flood are symptoms of the same cause. It’s not that we don’t have enough water. It’s that our soils can’t absorb it when it comes.

This summer saw sea surface temperatures reach record highs.

"With a majority of the public supporting this, there is no better time for the Government to introduce taxes on private jet fuel and on extreme wealth."

Buckle up.

Drug-resistant infections are already killing more than a million people directly each year.

Farmers can control their farmland’s resilience - and that starts with microbial life.

What does the approaching El Niño mean for the world’s economies and for us? We are in a period of ever escalating costs. But we should understand El Niño not as just one more shock driving up prices, but as part of a climate supercycle tinyurl.com/j5xsyzvw | @theecologist.org

"Voters of all parties are sending a message to Westminster. They want change, starting with taking action to close this absurd tax loophole for the ultra-rich."

Voluntary carbon markets have exposed the awkwardness of trying to fit a living forest into an accounting system.

The fire is over, but the ecological consequences are only beginning to be measured.

Higher temperatures - and disruptions caused by flooding, storms, and other weather events - increase the cost of production, driving up inflation.

Developers have been planting trees without a plan - and then abandoning them