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The growth in emissions is creating a ‘diesel generation’ of unhealthy youngsters

Environmental breakdown, coupled with the self-destructive behaviour of some countries, has set us on a road to ruin

It was 1989 and I was investigating a tip-off I had about villagers being forced out of their homes. It turned out that another story was developing

It’s untenable to let salaried work define us. In the future, what we do for society unpaid should be at least as important

The principles that define a good life protect me from despair, despite this diagnosis and the grisly operation I now face

The most important environmental action we can take is to reduce the amount of land used by farming

The creatures we feared our grandchildren wouldn’t see have vanished already — and it has happened faster than even pessimists predicted

Trump and Brexit are responses to a political system that’s imploding. But could a radical redesign wrest it from the liars?

The Earth cannot accommodate our need and greed for food. We must change our diet before it’s too late

Each generation is normalising the erosion of our environment, and the devastating losses to fragile ecosystems are mounting

A regime of cramming and testing is crushing young people’s instinct to learn and destroying their future

Online information is already being used to manipulate us. We must act now to own the new political technologies before they own us