Politics: Environment

In defence of renewables

Huhne is right on climate sceptics and "armchair engineers".

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A very English revolution

Middle England feels betrayed by the coalition’s shake-up of planning rules – the biggest since the 1930s. Are the Tories ready to go to war with their own core vote?

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The Dale Farm eviction is the ugly side of localism

Both central and local government are failing in their roles as a guarantors of minority rights.

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A black and white issue

The culling of badgers is irrelevant, malicious and ineffective.

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This heaving planet

Half a century ago, the WWF was formed to help save endangered animals. Today, it’s human beings who are increasingly at risk, through overpopulation and food scarcity. Can we bring our birth rate under control and avert potential catastrophe?

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The city on the edge of the world

In 1933, J B Priestley set off to discover “the common well of Englishness”. In the first of a new series following in his footsteps, award-winning writer Edward Platt travels to the isolated, defiant outpost of Hull.

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Watching the Arctic melt, I realise apathy must be frozen out

We can choose abject complicity, or we can decide that it's not too late to build a better world.

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How the Tories went from oak-tree logo to enemies of conservation

Gas fracking: the next threat to the planet

Unconventional gas extraction should not be part of our energy future.

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Miliband's new energy policy could be a vote winner

A greener and cheaper approach would have significant appeal.

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