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Climate impacts could slash seven per cent of corporate earnings in the next decade.

A secure plant-based global food system will stave off the worst-case scenarios of climate breakdown.

The world is now on track to see five trillionaires within a decade, the latest annual Oxfam inequality report reveals.

PETER SOMERVILLE reviews Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton (Verso 2024).

Labour promise that new incinerators will be blocked 'if they do not help meet environmental objectives' falls short of Tory's proposed ban.

Consensus decision making could make COP30 democratic, relevant and effective.

A legal case in the Democratic Republic of Congo highlights the danger faced by environmental defenders in the country.

An open letter to Shabana Mahmood, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, about prisons from Just Stop Oil activists currently behind bars.

'If I am going to carry on writing for The Ecologist I need at least 100 of you to commit several hours of your time to running a mini-assembly.'

A prediction, a sudden death, and decades of struggle in Madagascar.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: How shipping companies ‘enable’ beef driven forest destruction in Brazil.

Oxfam research shows richest one per cent of people around the world responsible for 16 per cent of global carbon emissions.

A play dramatising the crucial final hours of negotiations that resulted in the Kyoto Protocol opens in London today.

Medical doctor faces prison for Just Stop Oil protest targeting Esso petrol pumps.

A look back at 1820s Britain lends hope, but also the realisation that British animal protection has failed.