Politics: Environment

This heaving planet

Half a century ago, the WWF was formed to help save endangered animals. Today, it’s human beings who are increasingly at risk, through overpopulation and food scarcity. Can we bring our birth rate under control and avert potential catastrophe?

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Green or greedy? How the financial sector could save the planet

How corporations hide their environmental impact and how investors can hold them to account.

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Fukushima’s lessons in climate change

If we abandon nuclear power, prepare for catastrophic global warming.

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Let’s step out of the lab as the climate changes around us

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Humbled by nature, humble by culture

The scale of the 11 March Japanese earthquake and tsunami is a profound reminder of just how small we human beings are. But it also carries a message of hope about Japan’s long struggle with the natural world.

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Oil of algae

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Power play

Cheap meat comes at a high price

The conditions of pig farms in parts of the EU are atrocious, but the fightback has begun.

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Out of the woods

The coalition’s proposed fire sale of English woodland will leave parliament powerless to decide on even more matters of great importance to our country.

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Ministers announce partial halt of forest sales

Proposed sale of 15 per cent of England's state-owned forests has been postponed by coalition.

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