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Economists need to develop a measure of net economic and ecological well-being, rather than depending on GDP.

A loan from International Monetary Fund allows the African country to rebuild from climate-linked disaster – but drives the poor into debt, campaigners warn.

A Labour motion calling for the UK Parliament to be the first in the world to declare an environment and climate emergency was unanimously passed.

Greenpeace’s Unearthed has revealed a “systematic destruction of information” by the government’s recently-resigned fracking commissioner.

The first in a new series on biodiversity conservation offers a radical perspective on ecological crisis.

TV wildlife expert Chris Packham has shared a letter he says he received which contains the warning: 'We want you dead.'

Reflections on time in Parliament hearing Greta Thunberg and politicians talk about climate change throw up the same conclusions.

High court judgement “wrong” and “out of step with the world”. Activists vow to continue the fight to stop expansion.

Chile plans to use this year’s UN climate talks to focus attention on the world’s most important carbon sponge – the oceans.

We need a new deal for Nature – one that is forged at the highest political level.

At the belt and road summit in Beijing, leaders talked up sustainable development, while investors forged ahead with polluting power projects in partner countries

How has our knowledge of climate breakdown changed over time, and what is it that's tempering our language and inhibiting decisive action?

Intensive agribusiness is causing a global decline in insect populations with serious consequences for humans and the rest of nature.

But John McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor, invites Extinction Rebellion activists to address the shadow cabinet.

Oliver Tickell met Polly Higgins, remarkable campaigner and founder of Mission Lifeforce, shortly before she died this month.