Environment

Beaver colony granted right to stay in Devon

The Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs has legally sanctioned a beaver colony to remain on the River Otter in east Devon, after the success of its five-year reintroduction trial. The colony are the first wild beavers to live in the English countryside for four centuries.

Protestor's sign saying - 'Visit Kent Lorry Park of the UK'

Ashford lorry park and another nail in the coffin for local democracy

Liz Wright criticises the government’s total disregard for local politics as they purchase 27 hectares of agricultural land in Ashford, without engaging with the local community

Unfriending climate denial: Facebook’s role in spreading misinformation, and how we can stop it

Sara Hall, co-founder of Stop Funding Heat, details how Facebook is failing to crackdown on climate change denialism on the platform

An education for the future

Former primary school teacher Jenny Rhodes proposes an education system with future generations in mind

What has changed? Liverpool’s climate emergency progress

Cllr Lawrence Brown looks at how Liverpool’s action on the climate emergency matches up with its promises

An image of active travel in Greater Manchester

Active travel at the heart of a green recovery

Sustrans’ Daniel Gillett reflects on the recent government emergency funding for active travel

Rob Hopkins interview: Overcoming the crisis of imagination

Green World interviews activist Rob Hopkins about society’s loss of imagination and how to rekindle it

Opinion: A Green Brexit is possible

Rupert Read and Emma Dawnay discuss how Brexit can be made to work for the environment

Nothing to see here

Dr Megan Argo weighs up the benefits and risks of launching too many satellites into the Earth’s orbit

CCC calls for recovery to focus on climate

“The UK is facing its biggest economic shock for a generation. Meanwhile, the global crisis of climate change is accelerating. We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to address these ur...

Emma Love |

Climate Change

Environment

Economics

Energy

| Fri 26 Jun 2020

Calls for review into links between air pollution and Covid-19 deaths

“It is inexcusable to try and find out why the BAME community is adversely affected by Covid-19 and not consider the relationship between Covid-19 and air pollution.” Growing calls have b...

Olivia Rutherford |

| Wed 10 Jun 2020

Oceans on a knife edge

“Urgent system change and a transformation of our treatment of the natural world are essential to the restoration of health, and to our own survival.” Green peer Natalie Bennett reflects ...

Natalie Bennett |

| Mon 8 Jun 2020

Save the trees: the campaigner whose protest stopped felling

“What had been planned for the trees of Western Road symbolises much that was — and still is — wrong in neoliberal Britain: privatisation, austerity, national and local governments gett...

Alan Story |

Environment

Society

Politics

| Wed 27 May 2020

What does “not going back” mean for how we get around?

“I’ve lost count of the conversations with neighbours and campaigners wanting to keep some of the lockdown quietness and make sure that it stays safe for people to breathe, walk and cycle...

Caroline Russell |

Transport

Environment

Society

| Thu 21 May 2020

Europe’s Green Deal as the new normal

“Climate change and loss of biodiversity are still the biggest threat to our society and planet. It's increasingly clear that everything is connected to our unsustainable model, and that ...

Evelyne Huytebroeck |

| Mon 11 May 2020

Are we really all in this together?

Greens announce Carbon Chancellor plans outside Treasury

“This health crisis has starkly demonstrated the gross inequality that disfigures our society but it also gives us an opportunity to change that.” Former Green MEP Molly Scott Cato explor...

Molly Scott Cato |

| Mon 4 May 2020

No going back: Rebuilding a post-coronavirus world

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to hold the globe in its grip, people are beginning to look ahead to the world that awaits us once the crisis is over. The task of rebuilding will be mo...

Green World |

| Fri 24 Apr 2020

CO2 levels increase by 26 per cent since 1970

Global carbon dioxide levels have increased by 26 per cent since 1970, while the last five years have been the hottest on record. Though the coronavirus pandemic is expected to cause carb...

Green World |

| Thu 23 Apr 2020

Reboot economy through Green New Deal, say Greens

The Green Party has responded to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s coronavirus reference scenario and urged the government to avoid a business as usual approach to a post-coronavirus...

Olivia Rutherford |

| Wed 22 Apr 2020

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