Wes Streeting, the secretary for Health and Social Care, must find funding for research Into invasive lobular breast cancer - to save lives and end an injustice towards women. From @monicapiccinini.bsky.social theecologist.org/2025/dec/19/...

By me for @theecologist.org: The breast cancer blind spot Wes Streeting, the secretary for Health and Social Care, must find funding for research Into invasive lobular breast cancer - to save lives and end an injustice towards women. theecologist.org/2025/dec/19/...

We are capable of miracles - why are we investing in carnage?

A strategy to make Britain less reliant on foreign imports would require importing 25% of global lithium

Jane Goodall’s most enduring contribution to the ecological movement may be her conviction that hope is not a feeling, but a tool.

UK protections for human rights defenders are being weakened, campaigners say

A fundamental lack of democracy in the formation of trade policy in Britain lets oil companies sue governments across the world if they take action on climate change, according to a new report. Crucial work from investigative journalist @adamramsay.bsky.social

A cautionary tale from the climate wrecks of 1930s America

Will activist voices be integrated meaningfully into the COP31 in Turkey next year, or are will they just be tokenised?

Oil companies can sue governments across the world if they take action on climate change

Millions of tonnes of Christmas impulse buys, including t-shirts, end up in landfill every year

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

Recycled polyester pumps more microplastic into our soil, our waterways, our bodies

Migration and mutual aid in The Grapes of Wrath. theecologist.org/2025/dec/16/...

A new strategy on lithium economically 'fails on its own terms', and leaves trade justice by the wayside.

The UK government is planning to weaken guidance to its embassies on how they support human rights defenders around the world

"Goodall modelled a civic practice that the world urgently needs to scale: persistent, emotionally intelligent engagement with both science and society."

"These efforts aren’t just adaptation. They’re acts of resistance." Mountain communities in Peru on the frontlines of climate breakdown fight back.

Fast fashion's green claims don't stand up to scrutiny

The race for rare earth minerals ramps up

“Embassies prioritise trade over human rights”

The UK's Critical Minerals Strategy has failed to seize the moment. That means it’s now up to all of us to push for meaningful transformation – and win. Our trade campaign manager @cleodierickard.bsky.social for @theecologist.org

Campaigners speak out on the need to hold UK companies to account for abuses. theecologist.org/2025/dec/15/...

Britain's Critical Minerals Strategy fails on its own terms – and on the necessity of global resource justice. Latest analysis from @globaljusticenow.bsky.social theecologist.org/2025/dec/11/...

We Can, a new comic‑book and animation series, asks bluntly: if we can achieve miracles, why are we still promoting destruction? theecologist.org/2025/dec/10/...

Re "the very sinister development of nuclear renaissance”. "Over the years I have regularly been fed wildly optimistic figures of construction costs and times, and of the resultant electricity supply. At worst we have been consistently lied to.... And now it is happening all over again..."

Corruption, illegal mining, and lack of action threaten Peru’s mountain communities as glaciers disappear. theecologist.org/2025/dec/08/...

The call of the rewild

"Our response couldn’t be more inadequate".

Taking on paper power with people power

The long-term effects of pesticides on the human body remain poorly understood

"We all have an interest in stopping factory farming."

Cement accounts for 7% of global emissions: Seashells offer a novel route to cutting that environmental burden

'Missing species' are set to be reintroduced to Scotland in new rewilding programme

Clamping down on private jets could raise billions in tax revenue

A stark warning to UK government on their climate inaction

Small producers are being edged out by multinational corporations

The downfall of a banking climate coalition raises urgent questions about financing the green transition.

PAN UK is calling on the British Government to rethink its new pesticide-reduction strategy, which now only covers crops like grains. theecologist.org/2025/dec/03/...

Construction carbon can be cut by over a third by repurposing a common waste product

'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency': Climate campaigners confront parliament

"The Highlands can become a beacon of hope in the fight against extinction and wildlife loss.”

'Tis the season to overconsume

In the UK alone, roughly 1.2 billion land animals are killed each year

Taxing meat is heavily advocated by animal welfare and environmental groups alike

The Scottish Rewilding Alliance is agitating for ecosystem repair

We need a tax on the destructive lifestyles of the ultra-wealthy

As a peak of climate urgency, COP pledges from global leaders ring hollow

'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders. theecologist.org/2025/dec/01/...