Rep. Nydia Velazquez listens at a House committee hearing. | Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images By ZACHARY…
Month: March 2021
The Green New Deal’s time has come – but where has Labour’s radicalism gone? | Adam Tooze
What a difference power makes. The past 18 months saw political defeats for the left on…
Democratic centrists balk at more red ink after Covid spending spree
Sen. Angus King speaks during a Senate committee hearing. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Democrats are eyeing…
‘Ecological island’: as Maasai herding lands shrink, so does space for Kenya’s elephants
Kenyan elephants risk a slow extinction in a bleak, ever-shrinking “ecological island” in one of the…
Budget cuts and collapse in tourism revenue pose ‘severe’ threat to nature
Job cuts in nature reserves and environmental rollbacks by governments during the Covid-19 pandemic could undermine…
A wet March makes a sad autumn? How Victorians viewed weather
The Victorians did not have much idea what caused weather patterns but they knew what effect…
Country diary: a pheasant can take care of itself
A woman stopped me in the lane, to say she’d heard a bird in pain, I…
Is the government ready to lead the fight against the climate crisis?
Later this year, the government will host COP26 in Glasgow – possibly one of the last…
Three stories of hope: 10 years on from Japan’s triple disaster
Much has changed along the hundreds of miles of devastated coastline and the recovery is gathering…
What is this ‘hot pigeon’? Is it even real?
One of the main characters on Twitter today is the pink-necked green-pigeon, a photo of which…