The failures of privatisation fall disproportionally on poorer, racialised and rural communities

"In the late 1980s, with concern about environmental issues like the hole in the ozone layer soaring, and all three main parties in crisis, people flocked to the Greens."

The UK's continues to approve new oil and gas exploration on nature reserves, where pollution is already at alarming levels.

A manifesto of ecological love

Britain pioneered water privatisation - and then exported it around the world.

Polanski's Green Party is putting eco-populism is on the map

"It's horrible being alarmist, but this report is mind-blowing"

Nuclear power accounted for just 9.0 percent of global electricity generation, barely half its historic peak of 17.5 percent in 1996.

“The rate of extinction is tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past ten million years. It suggests that a sixth mass extinction may be underway”

Britain is the world’s worst offender for letting fossil fuel companies drill in protected areas.

While the mine exports its profits, the local communities import poverty and despair

Death cult capitalism is driven by the fantasies of a handful of mega-wealthy people

Nuclear power has spent 25 years in stagnation, while renewable energy has seen unprecedented growth.

The world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks.

Britain is the worst country in the world for letting oil and gas companies drill in protected areas, according to a new investigation.

A massive ilmenite mine in Madagascar has a dark history of pollution

"Capitalism is a system that has outlived its use. It should have been overthrown a long time ago."

An extended version of our report on the impacts of tourism on posidonia in the Mediterranean, in English, has been published by @theecologist.org I worked with Ana Lopez and Alban Leduc, with the support of the @journalismfund.bsky.social theecologist.org/2026/jan/26/... #posidonia #overtourism

An extended version of our report on the impacts of tourism on #posidonia in the #Mediterranean, in English, has been published by @theecologist.org I worked with Ana Lopez and Alban Leduc, with the support of the @journalismfund.bsky.social theecologist.org/2026/jan/26/...

The renewable sector keeps growing whilst the nuclear sector flounders

We must acknowledge a hard truth: the conservation model we have relied on for more than a century has failed

In a world of rapid urbanisation, are smaller rural communities a more sustainable answer?

"We are drowning in commodification at the expense of happiness and the future."

"Corruption affects everything that could be done through politics or law."

Snowy slopes are dwindling - but the Olympics is still accepting fossil fuel cash

Climate wrecking companies are sponsoring climate education

"Sana’a faces the possibility of running out of economically viable groundwater within decades.”

Unchecked anchoring is threatening an ancient keystone species

Capitalism is a death cult

We exist in a machine that is destroying the basis of life on the one planet we have to live on. This is commonly understood. Yet very little is done about it. Why? Me for @theecologist.org theecologist.org/2026/jan/23/...

The orcas in tanks cannot be given back their lives. But the legal loopholes that put them there can absolutely be dismantled.

Underpaying green sector workers is stifling the energy transition

A way of living is naturally and sustainably, based on centuries-old traditions.

Tell the committee there will be no Winter Olympics on a burning planet

Environmentalism shouldn't be about protecting ‘nature’ from people, but as a powerful act of connection and reciprocity with one another, with our surroundings, and with a just future we build together.

These molluscs are believed to be one of the most imperilled groups of animals in the world

Counting the cost of saving the planet

As urbanisation across the world is still growing, some are turning to rural existence to seek sustainability and community.

It's high time the Olympics cut ties with Big Oil like it once did with Big Tobacco

A 'conservation' mindset isn't enough - we need solidarity with other living things

What is being conserved is not a species, but an institution.

A keystone species is under threat

It's not just about their lifestyles - it's about their climate-wrecking investment portfolios

“Reclaiming the commons is ultimately about repairing our relationship with the natural world. This is a crisis of disconnection.”

“The UK is now adopting protest-control tactics imposed in countries where democratic safeguards are collapsing”

Hens in cages suffer lives of extreme pain. It's long past time for action, says the Humane League UK

"Passion alone won’t build a net zero economy,”

There has always been a history in England of resistance to Enclosure.

A new line of sustainably-made merchandise from Teemill X The Ecologist Environmental justice is always in fashion ecologist.teemill.com

The super-rich have already blown through their yearly share of the carbon budget