We urgently need to save what is left of the animal and plant world

Thirty-one species disappeared forever in 2020. Extinction being something we should eternally be ashamed of and which has full bearing on our future. The push...

Insects face a perilous decline. Here’s why that’s dangerous for us.

The English poet Siegfried Sassoon knows how we started the 20th century, with the most ignoble war humanity had ever experienced — WW1. “The soldier...

We can’t sacrifice Africa’s Okavango Delta for oil

Environmental activists warn that plans to drill in Namibia and Botswana pose significant ecological risks.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — the American Serengeti — shall not die

The Trump administration is pursuing a controversial plan to open up ANWR to oil drilling. Here’s what’s at stake.

We almost lost the world: rolling back the environmental rollbacks

It felt like a second D-Day last week — D for the hard-earned victory of the better half of Democracy, and decency, and not despondency,...

Can this simple fix save Arctic ice?

Today open sea is taking over the top of the world and its immeasurable ability to cool the Earth. Currently only about 250,000 square miles...

We need an international environmental criminal court now

It was not a lawyer or economist who uttered those words about the “financial and industrial internationalism” but a poet and a prophet generations ahead...