To make mistakes is human. To make them repeatedly is careless and short-sighted. To do so in pursuit of profit and at the expense of the natural systems on which we all depend is unforgivable.

For a species undeniably so intelligent and technologica... Read more >

Today was a day I have at times feared might never come, but I’ve just emerged from a packed press conference in Jakarta for the launch of Asia Pulp & Paper’s new ‘Forest Conservation Policy’ aimed to end its involvement in deforestation.

I’ve person... Read more >

While the thought of official councils — with their high-level policy workshops and multilateral task forces — is enough to send most sensible people into fits of abysmal loathing, there is one such council that anyone passionate about the high north ... Read more >

Scientists have been warning for decades that human caused climate change will bring an increase in extreme weather and it seems that our carbon chickens are now coming home to roost.

Hurricane Sandy was arguably one the most dramatic extreme weather... Read more >

Sometimes the longest struggles can be the most rewarding.

Today -- after ten months of #PeoplePowered activities and behind-the-scenes haggling -- G-Star has committed to eliminate all uses of hazardous chemicals from its supply chain and products b... Read more >

The French President Francois Hollande today received his Cameroonian counterpart, Paul Biya, at the Elysée Palace in Paris – and there was not a lack of potential topics for discussion.

Yet surely the one thing that had to be addressed was the def... Read more >

Deep in the vast rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, chainsaws are buzzing. Heavy machinery rumbles and growls, as loggers slice their way through the forest.

Three newly published investigations have confirmed that much of this logging w...

I'm standing outside a Shell petrol station in Davos, looking at polar bears on the roof with a huge banner that says ARCTIC OIL - TOO RISKY.

Twenty-five activists have shut down the station, some of whom are chained to the pumps. The place is surrou... Read more >

UPDATE February 1st: G-Star has committed to Detox! Read more here.

Zara. Levi’s. Benetton. Uniqlo. Victoria’s Secret. Mango. Esprit. Marks & Spencer. H&M. Li Ning. C&A. Puma. Adidas. Nike. Fourteen of the world’s top international fashion brands – a... Read more >

Davos, where the 1% come to be among themselves.

Black SUVs cruise the icy roads, snipers crouch on rooftops, bodyguards step out of hotel doorways and survey the scene before their charges follow them onto the pavement and billion dollar deals are d... Read more >

Devastating storms and lives lost, houses destroyed, sweltering heat waves, menacing bushfires, plunging winter temperatures, droughts, floods and even snowstorms in the desert: this is the reality of our weather – it's not a forecast. And it's going ... Read more >

Limited Brands – owner of iconic underwear labels Victoria’s Secret and La Senza – has today bowed to public pressure and committed to eliminate all hazardous chemicals from its supply chain and products by 2020.

That makes it three brands in three w... Read more >

US President Barack Obama finally broke his 'climate silence' with strong remarks about the climate change threat during his inauguration speech on Monday. That’s good. And it's about time.

For years we have watched the warnings from climate scientis... Read more >

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Timber on a truck near indigenous lands, Maranhão state. Logging in and around Indigenous Land is common.

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Trucks filled with timber from illegal logging operations in the Amazon have been stopped in their tracks by an indigenous village protesting the continued exploitation of their lands.

With little or no support from the local or federal aut... Read more >

The world's journalists have been jostling and vying with each other to describe and witness the stunning, but also deadly, extreme weather that has gripped the planet in recent months.

The focus has often been the tumbling of records: 2012 was the h... Read more >