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Meet the 'climate kids' suing the US government over global warming

15 August 2018

They claim inaction on climate change has blighted their future – just one of many challenges now hitting the courts. And they might just succeed

Earth Overshoot Day – what to make of this moment of reckoning?

1 August 2018

Earth Overshoot Day is a hugely popular way to highlight our global environmental impact. Here are two views on it...

Capitalism broke the planet. Here’s how it’s going to fix things

20 June 2018

The environment and high finance are strange bedfellows – but a new movement is raising billions to fight climate change. A breakthrough – or green hogwash?

Rich nations restore their own forests but trash those elsewhere

14 May 2018

As countries get richer, they start replanting their forests – but this is not a big environmental gain because they “export” the deforestation to poor countries

Are we deluding ourselves when we shop for eco-friendly stuff?

3 May 2018

A highly critical new report questions the worth of the sustainability logos that appear on many products. Are they still a force for good, wonders Fred Pearce

How can India clean up when all of its waste has an afterlife?

25 April 2018

Waste has a complicated cultural significance in India. A new book looks at how that affects the country's efforts to get clean

Acid bath: The new threat to lakes and rivers

25 April 2018

Freshwater acidification was supposed to be a thing of the past, but it’s back and it could be even worse this time

Real colour of money: business wants profit and green cred

27 March 2018

A strange alliance of corporates and environmental groups thinks profits and green credentials can be aligned. But there's some angry pushback

The doctor who exposed the UK's terrible experiments on patients

7 February 2018

In the 1960s, British medics took sometimes fatal liberties with unsuspecting patients in the name of science. Maurice Pappworth wasn't having any of it