Natural World

Former Director of the Tyndall Centre and a Professor at the University of East Anglia, Andrew Watkinson explains why 'a few loose sentences' in the IPCC report shouldn't change people's opinion of the science

Everyone has an opinion on how best to use land in the UK, but bridges need to be built between those who want to see every inch producing food and fuel, and those who believe that land means more than farming

Major UK cereal brand switches to more sustainable sources of palm oil following interview with the Ecologist

The UK has joined growing European support for Atlantic Bluefin tuna to be declared an endangered species to prevent collapse

Deutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev is heading up the groundbreaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) report and doing for nature what Sir Nicholas Stern did for climate change - valuing it

Brazilian cattle-ranching company named and shamed for destroying the land of an uncontacted tribe

Ecosystems are buffering humanity against the worst impacts of global warming and also alleviating poverty, says United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

If alternatives to deforestation like REDD do not arrive soon Liberia's remaining rainforest cover is likely to go the same way as its neighbours in Cote d'Ivoire

Unregulated sand extraction in Sierra Leone is good for business but wreaks havoc on the coastal environment

A landmark ban in Hungary on the use of cyanide in mining looks set to make huge improvements in public health. Now the country's neighbours need to follow her lead...

Dismissed initially as a good storyteller but nothing more, environmental historian Poul Holm has mapped the history of marine animals in such detail that it is having profound impacts on our current understanding of the oceans

An explosive mix of animals, people and economics means that land in Africa is becoming more valuable - and more contested - than ever

Oceans becoming noisier as sounds travel further in increasingly acidic water

Canadian scientist Dr Pierre Mineau talks about the ongoing struggle to protect birds from pesticides that 'don't belong in this millennium'

The Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solon, explains why over 100 countries are now backing a proposal to acknowledge the rights of nature in a climate change agreement

Previous studies have focused on the impact of acidification on coral reefs but not other marine organisms

The marine campaign group Oceana has put together a fact sheet about ocean acidification

Former deputy editor of the Ecologist, Paul Kingsnorth, tells Matilda Lee why an obsession with CO2 has distracted environmentalists, and why we may already be beyond the point of no return...

Warmer weather and reduced frosts linked to climate change are giving a boost to spring mushroom numbers in the UK and Europe

At times awkwardly funny, informative and charming, Marianne Taylor's book is an easy first step into British natural history

In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline

Former Paraguayan government minister makes plea for West to intervene in runaway illegal logging situation displaced from Brazil

An installation featuring giant tropical tree stumps in Trafalgar square is designed to symbolise threatened rainforest trees throughout the world

Are we risking serious problems if action to tackle deforestation assumes that a tonne of tree carbon is the same as a tonne of fossil carbon?