Environment / Ecocide

We have brought the natural world and its diversity to a breaking point. Dinyar Godrej surveys the damage and explores how we need to act to repair it.

For more than half a century, economists and policymakers have focused fanatically on growth as the only feasible way to end global poverty and improve people’s lives. But in an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, that comfortable conventional wisdom is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on the line.

Femke Wijdekop makes the case for Ecocide to become a crime under international law.

An extraordinary gathering of frontline communities in Paris has been presenting evidence of crimes against nature. Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey reports.

22 April is Earth Day. Should punishment be made to those personally responsible for destroying our planet?

Put environmental villains in the dock, says campaigner Polly Higgins.