THE ECOLOGIST

JANUARY 19. 2026

'Kinship can save us'

Conservation must move beyond protection to kinship, restoring our reciprocal relationship with the living world to heal both people and our living planet.

JANUARY 18. 2026

Save our snow - ban Olympic fossil fuel ads

The Winter Olympics killed tobacco sponsorship - can it do the same for fossil fuels?

JANUARY 16. 2026

The green passion pay gap

A passion pay gap - where professionals accept lower pay because they care deeply about the work - is undermining net zero goals.

JANUARY 13. 2026

Warm words won’t free hens

The British Government has launched a consultation for banning the use of cages for laying hens.

'Focus on the richest polluters'

The super-rich are disproportionately responsible for driving the climate crisis - Oxfam.

JANUARY 12. 2026

Locked out of nature

Why England’s countryside remains off-limits - and the movement fighting to open it up for everyone.

JANUARY 8. 2026

Animal rights and legal wrongs

Why animal welfare failures threaten the rule of law.

JANUARY 5. 2026

Kshamenk has died

'Kshamenk did not die too soon. He lived far too long in a situation he had no means of escaping. '

DECEMBER 19. 2025

The breast cancer blind spot

Wes Streeting, the secretary for Health and Social Care, must find funding for research Into invasive lobular breast cancer - to save lives and end an injustice towards women.

DECEMBER 17. 2025

Trade secrecy fuels climate crisis

Westminster system leaves British trade policy 'hopelessly captured' by climate polluters.

DECEMBER 16. 2025

People getting mad in similar ways

Migration and mutual aid in The Grapes of Wrath.

DECEMBER 15. 2025

UK links to human rights abuses scrutinised

Campaigners speak out on the need to hold UK companies to account for abuses.

DECEMBER 12. 2025

The good in us all

'Jane Goodall modelled a civic practice that the world urgently needs to scale: persistent, emotionally intelligent engagement with both science and society. '

DECEMBER 10. 2025

Why are we still promoting destruction?

We Can, a new comic‑book and animation series, asks bluntly: if we can achieve miracles, why are we still promoting destruction?