Another chunk of the Amazon rainforest goes up in smoke. In the last 10 years alone, 38,600 km2 (equal to 8.4 million football fields) has been deforested for ranching, logging, soy and oil-palm cultivation.Photo: Loren McIntyre/Stock Connection Blue/Alamy

The case for nature

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.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
Illustration: Pete Reynolds

We can’t grow our way out of poverty

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.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Portent of doom: a penguin covered in oil following a spill off the coast of South Africa.Photo: Martin Harvey/Alamy Stock Photo

The duty to care for our common home

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

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016
Two good days when crimes against nature were exposed

Two good days when crimes against nature were exposed

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

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NI 21 - Paris Climate Talks - COP21 - December, 2015
A devastated landscape: Suncor
Canada’s oilsands upgrader facility on
the banks of the Athabasca River.Larry MacDougal/CP Photo

Putting the 'I' in ecocide

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

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NI 451 - Adapt or die - April, 2012
Stopping the Juggernaut Photo by: Mr Bill under a CC Licence

Stopping the Juggernaut

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

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NI 437 - Humans vs. Nature - November, 2010

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Article title From magazine Publication date
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
How we make poverty March, 2020
Technology justice May, 2016
Paris Climate Talks - COP21 December, 2015
Adapt or die April, 2012
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
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