With a government seemingly intent on pushing through the latest road-building programme via its localism agenda campaigners are readying themselves for combined resistance using legal experts, alliance groupings and direct action
Road building programme gets green light by stealth Jan Goodey | 5th October 2012 News Road Building Government Politics News newbury4.jpg With a government seemingly intent on pushing through the …
After yet another week in which our national politics bore rather more resemblance to a slow-motion car crash than one would really like, Bibi van der Zee decides to get to the bottom of things.
Behind The Headlines Bibi van der Zee | 2nd November 2012 News Energy Coalition Renewables Cameron Wind Farms Politics bibi bike.jpg After yet another week in which our national politics bore rather …
What do cockroaches, used-car salesmen and root canals have in common? They’re <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/08/congress-now-less-popular-than-head-lice-cockroaches-and-the-donald/" target="_blank">all more popular</a> than the 112th U.S. Congress, which ended its two-year term last week with its reputation at an all-time low.
Breaking Congressional Gridlock - 113th Congress Ben Whitford | 10th January 2013 News Congress Politics Environment ben whitford.jpg Ben Whitford is the Ecologist's new U.S. Correspondent What do …
Earlier this month the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reached 400ppm. Andrew Simms questions the apparent disinterest shown by the media.........
Why did the 400ppm carbon milestone cause barely a ripple? Andrew Simms | 31st May 2013 News Climate Change Politics Society shutterstock_123205483.jpg We passed a critical threshold and out the …
Environment minister Tony Burke says the government has done its best to stop downgrading of UN heritage status
Great Barrier Reef on the brink as politicians bicker Oliver Milman | 17th June 2013 News Politics Natural World Energy great-barrier-reef-via-shutterstock.jpg The Great Barrier Reef has lost half …
Pete Riley, campaign director at GM Freeze argues that Defra are cherry picking their science to fit their agenda, disregarding the real needs of both people and planet.....
… UK Environment Secretary suffering from GM delusion Pete Riley | 24th June 2013 News … on Milkweed. Loss of Milkweed plants due to GM soya use in the US has had a detrimental … butterfly. Pete Riley, campaign director at GM Freeze argues that Defra are cherry picking …
Government claims the cull is to protect fish stocks, but campaigners say seals are clubbed to death for their fat and fur. John Vidal reports.......
Seal Clubbing in Namibia: Shocking footage just released John Vidal | 4th July 2013 News Natural World Politics seal.jpg Seal pups, just a few months old, are killed with spiked wooden clubs. …
Dominic Dyer reports on a long overdue co-ordinated effort by the international community to take action against the global industry which is slaughtering Africa’s elephants......
Will the world act to save the African elephant before it's too late? Dominic Dyer | 15th July 2013 News Natural World Politics elephanthead.jpg Dominic Dyer reports on a long overdue co-ordinated …
The National Trust for Ireland and Greenpeace have launched two independent legal challenges to UK Government plans for new nuclear power plants at Hinkley Point, Somerset, re-opening long-standing questions about nuclear safety.......
Legal challenges to new nuclear: can we trust government? Paul Dorfman | 16th July 2013 News Energy Politics Economics Climate Change shutterstock_116555242.jpg Burnham on Sea Beach looking towards …
Of 5,500 badgers to be shot during the pilot culls, only 240 will be independently monitored for humaneness, it has emerged. And just 4 Natural England officials will oversee the killing in Gloucestershire and Somerset
Badgers: the truth behind the cull Dominic Dyer | 12th August 2013 News Badger Cull Wildlife Food And Farming Comment TB Dairy Farming Politics badger.jpg Of 5,500 badgers to be shot during the pilot …
The UK's fracking protests are working says Jan Goodey who has been reporting for the Ecologist from Balcombe since the first of the protestors turned up to stop the drills
ANTI FRACKING SPECIAL REPORT: UK Jan Goodey Will Cottrell | 27th August 2013 News Climate Change Fracking Energy Politics balcombe1.jpg Camp supporters outside the Cuadrilla gate. Image courtesy of …
In a week which has seen the UK Government shift the fracking argument away from price benefits (always an erroneous case) the pro fracking lobby is now scrambling around to find and play up to the public the wider economic benefits shale gas development could bring to Britain. Alex Stevenson reports....
DECC won't back Cameron's fracking price promise Alex Stevenson | 6th September 2013 News Energy Politics Fracking Climate Change gasprices.jpg How will fracking affect gas prices in the UK? In a …
As governments in economic difficulties increasingly turn to environmentally damaging extraction industries for quick cash, citizens of those countries are responding with increasingly louder cries of protest. Lorna Howarth reports...........
The Occupy movement is dead – long live participatory democracy! Lorna Howarth | 11th September 2013 News Protest Politics Economics Mining goldmine.jpg Entrance to a gold mine from the Roman period. …
Matt Adam Williams explains why yesterday's European Parliament vote will likely have environmentally negative impacts on the other side of the world.....
Biofuels vote bad news for orangutans Matt Adam Williams | 12th September 2013 News Biofuels Politics Economics orangutan.jpg What will the European vote mean for orangutans in Borneo? The forecast …
Australian environmentalists' declare new Prime Minister, Tony Abbotts' green agenda as ‘anti-environmental', designed only to profit the mining industry at the cost of climate change solutions, reports Maxine Newlands......
New Australian Prime Ministers' anti-environmental agenda Maxine Newlands | 20th September 2013 News Climate Change Politics Australia fish.jpg Australian environmentalists' declare new Prime …
As investors flock to the resource-rich but still poverty-stricken African nation of Mozambique, Thembi Mutch warns that - as usual - it won't be the Mozambiquans who reap the multi billion dollar rewards of an economic boom in what remains the world's second poorest country......
Mozambique under threat from resource exploitation Thembi Mutch | 27th September 2013 News Africa Resources Economics Politics moza,mbique.jpg As investors flock to the resource-rich but still …
With 20 months to go until the next general election, Britain's energy policy debate is already heating up, reports Alex Stevenson.....
Labour ready to gamble on Miliband's price freeze gambit Alex Stevenson | 26th September 2013 News Energy Politics pricefreeze.jpg With 20 months to go until the next general election, Britain's …
Alex Stevenson asks why, given the findings of the latest IPPC climate report, the issue of climate change does not appear to be on the priority lists of UK politicians.............
… conference season. "Politicians are being pragmatic - they understand it's not an issue for …
Ben Whitford says that despite the lack of coverage of the IPCC report in the US media and ongoing denial of the science from certain political quarters, climate change activists in the US are feeling motivated........
Will the IPCC report spur U.S. policymakers to act? Ben Whitford | 1st October 2013 News Climate Change Politics capitol hill.jpg Many US policymakers are in denial about the 'bad weather' headed …
If we are to move beyond the political impasse generated by the IPCC report and prevent catastrophic climate change we must look to market mechanisms, specifically price competitive renewables, writes Oliver Tickell......
The IPCC has spoken. Now what? Oliver Tickell | 2nd October 2013 News Climate Change Ipcc Renewables Carbon Tax Politics solar.jpg Giant solar installations, like the 4,000 MW power plant planned for …
Personnel at the EPA have been heavily impacted by the ongoing shutdown, leading some commentators to question the necessity of the government agency post-shutdown. Ben Whitford reports....
Could America do without the Environmental Protection Agency? Ben Whitford | 16th October 2013 News US Government Politics EPA epa-logo.jpg Would the U.S. environment suffer if the EPA was shutdown …
The Hinkley deal is a disastrous one for the UK, its taxpayers and energy users, writes Oliver Tickell. We will be locked into a punitively high electricity price, index-linked, from 2025 until 2060, and the cumulative cost of this one nuclear power station will be well in excess of £100 billion, or around £1 billion per year in today's money.
With nuclear power: truth is the first casualty Oliver Tickell | 21st October 2013 News Nuclear UK Renewables Energy Finance Politics Oceans 1609.jpg The Hinkley deal is a disastrous one for the UK, …