THE ECOLOGIST

JUNE 10. 2025

Will green flood defences work?

Vegetated coastal solutions are hailed as a sustainable alternative to hard flood defences – but new evidence casts doubt on how much they can really deliver.

JUNE 9. 2025

Climate capitalism won’t save us

To assume 'green capitalism' is more progressive than its fossil opposition would be a critical mistake.

Bottom trawling like 'bulldozing national parks'

Marine and fisheries stakeholders are being asked to take part in a consultation on the prohibition of destructive bottom-towed fishing gear.

JUNE 6. 2025

'Hey Equinor, leave them kids alone'

Greenpeace condemns Equinor-funded computer game aimed at UK schoolchildren.

JUNE 3. 2025

Roehampton joins fossil fuel career boycott

Roehampton University becomes the twelfth higher education institution to ban fossil fuel companies from recruitment fairs.

JUNE 2. 2025

Unlevelling the land

The ten largest transnational landowners in the world control an area larger than Japan, according to a new report.

MAY 30. 2025

The AI of the storm

The rise of generative AI has exploded the demand for energy, including from fossil fuels.

'I don’t want this to be achievable'

Woman setting sail to break Arctic record made possible by melting ice.

MAY 28. 2025

Game over

The world’s global average temperature could exceed 2C above pre-industrial levels before 2030.

'The praxis of reciprocity'

A review of The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

MAY 27. 2025

Will banking ever be sustainable?

Bevis Watts gives his thoughts on the sector’s progress in his last interview as CEO of Triodos.

MAY 23. 2025

Defining and renovating our forests

Bringing back trees changes how people relate to the land and to each other.

MAY 22. 2025

'The world begins with a sound'

A bee-related exploration of sound with a deeply felt message about our living connection with nature.

MAY 21. 2025

Cascading climate tipping points 'likely'

World on course to trigger multiple climate tipping points unless action accelerates.