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A groundbreaking new study has shown that a mother’s exposure to pollution can have a measurable impact on the genes of her unborn child.

Two NGOs have accused the Indonesian Ecolabel Institute (LEI) of greenwash by handing ‘sustainable forest management certificates’ to companies converting natural forest or peatlands into timber plantations.

Protests. A political free-for-all or a new collective activism around social and environmental problems? Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Straus find out.

Dan Box makes a detour to the G20 climate protests in London, but leaves disappointed. Later, a lecture by Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern review, lifts his spirits.

The thing is, I like urban farming. Rooftop gardens and window boxes excite me. Balconies filled with beans and tomatoes give me hope. Nonetheless, the ‘next big thing’ in urban horticulture has left me cold.

As adventure tourism exhausts its possibilities, what next?… A look at why we travel, its environmental impact, and where our final destination might be

Reporting from the front-line of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at those combating illegal logging

Ann Pettifor has changed the world once; now she wants to do it again.

‘Small-scale, incredibly cautious and very slow’ is how Derek Gow sums up the Government’s approach to nature conservation.

In many ways, Carolyn Steel was born to be an architect: as a child she used to dream of buildings.

William McDonough highlights the wastefulness and environmental impacts of modern design and manufacturing and proposes a whole rethink of the process.

The new work by artist Maya Lin, famous for her memorial to US soldiers lost in Vietnam, commemorates the species destroyed and endangered by human action. As the list of the dead grows, David Hawkins wonders if the future is set in stone

The creation of a new and neutral currency unit linked to the environment would stabilise the economy and reduce CO₂.

In writing <i>Leviathan</i>, Thomas Hobbes created a monster: us. By reasserting our humanity we can correct the mistakes of the social scientists, says Tom Hodgkinson

Four green travellers have lost their way on the road to Damascus. Only renewables have the answers to our energy predicament.