Ukraine’s pets are symbols of humanity in an inhumane war
In the face of Russia’s indiscriminate attack, Ukrainians’ care for their animals is an act of defiance.
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Ilya Kaminsky: “Putin has managed to get poets to reject their own language”
The Ukrainian-American poet on language, war and art in a time of crisis.
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Boycotting Russia’s oligarch-run timber trade would deliver an overdue rebuke
Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine should bring renewed focus to the depletion of global forests, not provide an excuse to…
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“Austerity is coming back”: Tim Lang fears for food security as war rages
The government has left Britain vulnerable to global shocks such as the invasion of Ukraine, says the leading food policy…
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Lee Schofield on how farming needs to re-wiggle its approach to nature
In the face of accusations of a “sheep-wrecked” countryside, a Lake District rewilding project is bringing conservation and farming together.
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Will Russia’s war push back action on climate change?
If future geopolitical instability is to be contained, Ukraine’s acute crisis must not distract from the climate’s chronic threat.
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Could Happy the elephant follow an Ecuadorian monkey into legal personhood?
The US lawyer Steven Wise reflects on the long journey towards the recognition of animals as legal persons with rights.
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Horror of the high seas comes in rogue waves or the steady rise of storm surges
The destruction wrought on coasts by rising ocean levels will in the end be far more dramatic than the odd…
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