The obliteration of life in Lebanon

Stefanie Khoury argues that Israel's military strategy that deliberately targets infrastructures sustaining life is now extended from Gaza back to the Lebanese context in which it first emerged.

University pensions and coal

The Universities pension scheme, USS, claims it is divesting from coal. But how true is this? Bill Spence sets the record straight.

Switzerland’s climate paradox

Stefanie Khoury reflects on the latest Davos summit and explores the contradictions between Switzerland's economic supremacy and climate vulnerability.

Plants against property

Sarah Keenan reflects on the story of Japanese knotweed, and what it tells us about human-centred understandings of value, life, and land

Trees vs insurance companies

Kat Scott reports from a campaign to save a 170-year-old oak tree in Essex, which became a test case for corporate greenwashing, and the limits of environmental law in practice. In this blog she asks, does anyone want to live in a world where insurance companies decide the fate of old trees?

US aggression and Venezuelan oil

David Whyte reflects on the kidnapping of Venezuelan president, arguing that there has been a tendency in commentaries to neatly segregate climate impacts from the US’s ultimate aim to secure fossil capitalism

The fight for the Hudson River

The US courts have given the green light to dump 45 thousand gallons of radioactive wastewater into New York’s Hudson River, Samira Homerang Saunders reports.

Israel’s strategy of ecocide

We reproduce Centre Director David Whyte's evidence to the Gaza Tribunal last week on Israel's deliberate strategy to render Gaza unliveable.