Oaks face 'slow burn' disaster Britain's oaks facing multiple threats in a ‘slow burn' ecological calamity – report.

“What we are seeing with oak is not a single threat, but a convergence of pressures acting at the same time."

Sámi, energy and 'green colonialism' Norway’s electrification plans are framed as climate action, but Sámi leaders say they threaten reindeer herding, land rights, and lack meaningful consultation.

Are Norway's Equinor plans meaningful climate action or a case of 'creative accounting'?

Can Rio Tinto take responsibility for QMM? Recent protests around Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Southern Madagascar are met with a company 'clarification'. But no one is any the wiser.

Loss of land has serious consequences for rural producers and their food security.

Oaks face 'slow burn' disaster Britain's oaks facing multiple threats in a ‘slow burn' ecological calamity – report.

Oak trees are cornerstones of British biodiversity - and they are under threat.

Blocking bottom trawling Innovative, yet simple, solution helps protect the seas from the illegal bottom trawling that ravages the seabed in protected areas.

"Marine life started blooming again"

The art of activism Each Life Sacred: an album. When grief creates community and art becomes activism.

What role does culture play when formal systems fail to adequately respond to human suffering?

Sámi, energy and 'green colonialism' Norway’s electrification plans are framed as climate action, but Sámi leaders say they threaten reindeer herding, land rights, and lack meaningful consultation.

The Sámi Parliament is challenging Norway's climate plans as 'greenwashing'

The night-time nectar bar Let very hungry caterpillars nibble plants, gardeners urged in moth campaign.

Conservationists and horticulturalists are teaming up to urge gardeners to let caterpillars feast this spring

Blocking bottom trawling Innovative, yet simple, solution helps protect the seas from the illegal bottom trawling that ravages the seabed in protected areas.

Innovative, yet simple, solution helps protect the seas from the illegal bottom trawling that ravages the seabed in protected areas.

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Can Rio Tinto take responsibility for QMM? Recent protests around Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Southern Madagascar are met with a company 'clarification'. But no one is any the wiser.

Locals fear that Rio Tinto will cut and run from Madagascar, leaving a toxic legacy of contaminated water, deepened poverty, unpaid claims and a fractured governance landscape.

Oaks face 'slow burn' disaster Britain's oaks facing multiple threats in a ‘slow burn' ecological calamity – report.

Britain’s two native oak species, sessile oaks and pedunculate oaks, support more wildlife than any other native tree.

Hell and - even higher water? Sea level rise much worse than previously measured - raising fears of greater impacts from climate breakdown.

Sea levels around the world’s coasts are higher than modelling often assumes.

Indigenous activists smeared on socials Social media weaponised to criminalise Indigenous leaders and climate activists in Guatemala.

Elite networks in Guatemala are using social media platforms to orchestrate coordinated online smear campaigns against activists

Fukushima at fifteen The disaster is not over.

The disaster is not over.

Speaking truth to power Can democracies still function when truth itself is destabilised?

Democracies are being outpaced by a rapidly evolving information crisis.

'Border breaches risk meat disaster' Lorries skipping border controls raising animal and plant disease risk, MPs warn.

Border check “drive-bys” raise the risk of disease hitting the country, MPs warn

Speeding towards climate breakdown London’s car-centred transport policies turbocharge climate danger.

London’s car-centred transport policies turbocharge climate danger.

Wild idea for vegetarian festival Shambala stopped serving meat and fish a decade ago - but is now asking festival goers whether it should allow wild deer.

UK festival considers serving up deer meat for eco-conscious food lovers

Cocoa boom, water bust Cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, forced to drink water from unsafe ditches and streams.

"The children go on bikes to the well. It might be dirty, but we have no choice – we can’t afford to care about quality.”

Climate nears tipping points Global warming must peak below 2°C to limit tipping point risks.

Global warming might exceed 1.5 °C as early as the late 2020s or 2030s

Burn, baby burn Carbon capture project greenwashes waste incinerator expansion.

Research calls into question the technical and financial viability of carbon capture and storage projects.

Rain, rain go away Severe weather swings leave families battling floods and farmers facing bad year.

“A near-continuous run of Atlantic systems over the past three months has brought persistent rain, damaging storms and few dry spells.”

Cocoa boom, water bust Cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, forced to drink water from unsafe ditches and streams.

The chocolate industry rakes in billions - and cocoa growers of Côte D'Ivoire are counting the cost

Climate nears tipping points Global warming must peak below 2°C to limit tipping point risks.

Think the climate's been out of control? We haven't seen anything yet.

Burn, baby burn Carbon capture project greenwashes waste incinerator expansion.

Carbon capture researchers say that the oil industry is dangerously exaggerating the potential for undersea storage of greenhouse gases.

Rain, rain go away Severe weather swings leave families battling floods and farmers facing bad year.

Droughts and floods leave farmers floundering and families washed out of house and home

'Nature will take over' Harbour-dredged mud used for ‘remarkable’ restoration of protective saltmarsh.

Precious saltmarsh is eroding at a rate of two or three metres a year in the face of rising seas and increased storminess driven by climate change

Hope as a radical act How to envisage an aspirational world we would truly want to inhabit.

"Hopkins’ book gives much-needed encouragement to imagine the change you really want to see."

Hyperscale data centre protests Global Action Plan UK is coordinating two days of action from Friday, 27 February 2026 to oppose the expansion of massive data centres.

Protesters raise the alarm about giving Big Tech the power to monopolise our energy and water supply

Cocoa boom, water bust Cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, forced to drink water from unsafe ditches and streams.

Cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, forced to drink water from unsafe ditches and streams.

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