THE ECOLOGIST

OCTOBER 29. 2025

Hurricane Melissa adds urgency to COP30

Hurricane Melissa shows need for climate action at Cop30 summit, Cabinet hears.

OCTOBER 28. 2025

'Ideas for navigating a stormy future'

Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C is released 10 years after the landmark Paris climate agreement.

Climate storms threatens 'vicious cycle'

Climate impacts will 'get in the way of action to tackle the underlying problem'.

OCTOBER 27. 2025

What the old folk teach us

Our preconceptions are often challenged when we engage with people cross-culturally. What might we discover if we turn that same curiosity to the ancient past?

OCTOBER 24. 2025

A critical decade for climate

Nature struggles to cope in our rapidly changing climate – but we can, and must, intervene.

OCTOBER 22. 2025

'We must end animal testing - and solve sepsis'

The University of Kent has pledged not to conduct any sepsis experiments on animals after hearing from PETA, and now, others must follow.

OCTOBER 21. 2025

Wild landlocked salmon return to Finland

The salmon of the Hiitolanjoki river can finally return to their ancestral spawning grounds after being blocked for more than a century by three hydroelectric powerplants.

OCTOBER 20. 2025

'Animals matter as we plan our world'

Why animal welfare belongs in planning permission decisions.

OCTOBER 17. 2025

Bottom trawling ban 'must be top of agenda'

MPs call for British Government to ban bottom trawling as Parliament passes oceans Bill.

OCTOBER 16. 2025

A primatologist inter pares

Jane Goodall, nature defender and primatologist, dies in California.

OCTOBER 15. 2025

Worst case scenario

Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere climb at record rate to new highs in 2024

Droughtflation 'is eroding resilience'

Climate breakdown is driving drought, impacting farmers - and increasing the cost of food during a cost of living crisis.