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Why this advert is dangerous to people and nature – and shows advertising needs new controls. “Life is so much better without restrictions” says the...

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For countries that celebrate it, December and January sees perhaps the biggest annual festival of overconsumption as Christmas and New Year roll together in...

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It is good to see that a mountain in New Zealand, previously named by its colonial invaders as Mr Egmont, has just been given the same legal status as a...

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The new edition of a great book by our friends at Badvertising is out! https://theecologist.org/2024/sep/23/how-many-ads-do-you-see READ: The new, updated...

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Could a country that has built its whole identity and welfare on oil, start winding up its searching and drilling for oil? The answer might be bubbling in...

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The IPCC report published on 9 August made for gloomy reading on the true scale of the climate crisis now facing humanity. But the report made clear that...

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Can we respond to extreme heat to protect human health and shore up infrastructure in such a way that actually accelerates a rapid, low carbon transition to...

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UK homes are not built to handle the heat. Most of them were designed and constructed for a much cooler climate where extreme heat events were rarer and...

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All the wonders of human civilisation were conceived of, and created in, a climate that no longer exists. Nowhere is this clearer than in the infrastructure...