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What degrowth thinkers can learn from free market economist Friedrich Hayek and the father of public relations, Edward Bernays.

The North Sea has long supported local economies – and with offshore wind becoming a popular choice of renewable energy.

Christmas, the climate crisis and the cost-of-living crisis. And a lesson or two from Charles Dickens.

A train line brings workers - and COVID-19 - to the Awa Guajá community, threatening their survival. Part 2 of 2.

A visit to the Awa Guajá where people have died from sadness as well as guns since their land became a freight line for the world’s biggest iron-ore mine. Part 1 of 2.

'Man of the hole’ protected the Amazon for 26 years: his legacy lives on in a court ruling to protect his ancestral territory.

Ecosocialism is posited as a solution of appropriate ambition to prevent breakdown. But what is ecosocialism? Is it ecological? And do we all have to be socialist now?

The protests erupting across China deserve international solidarity. The future of the planet could be determined by their success - or failure.

Oil companies, dictators and greenwashers captured the process at COP27 more effectively than ever.

Rishi Sunak, the UK Prime Minister, confirmed he will in fact attend the UN talks in Sharm El Sheikh that start on Sunday.

Scientists and researchers admit despair at the failure of politicians to deliver meaningful climate emission reductions.

Liz Truss accused of using 'frack me or sack me' ultimatum as motion that the UK should ban fracking was defeated by 230 votes to 326 in farcical scenes.

We need a radical food system transformation to drastically steer us away from climate breakdown.

Keir Starmer won a standing ovation when announcing a Labour government would launch a publicly owned energy company.

The threat posed to nature and society by the massive expansion of industrial, fossil fuel economies was discussed by a generation of authors 60 years ago. What can they teach us today?

Liz Truss's decision to overturn the fracking ban in the UK is reigniting grassroots resistance.

'The urgency to learn from Ukraine is now existential for the rest of the world.'

'The diversity of habitats in Kyiv, especially on the banks of the Dnipro, is quite astonishing.'

'If you could mine salt from their grief and tears, Slovyansk would be a leader of salt-making.'

Pakistan’s floods are a result of colonialism and climate breakdown. Responsibility lies with the British Empire. We need climate reparations.

The rise of climate sceptics to new prime minister Liz Truss’s cabinet has sparked fear that climate action will be scaled back.

Should rivers be given legal rights like humans? A Bristol campaigner is testing the waters of British law in an effort to protect the Avon from further pollution.

Green gentrification is a looming crisis - we must pay attention to who profits from, and who is exploited by, the built environment system.

We need a new economics that centres our dependence on the environment to understand the coming instability of climate breakdown.