The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

Ministers and officials have been muddying the waters over taking public control of Thames Water – it’s time to set the record straight

Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026

A reminder of how terrible these diseases used to be

Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns

It is now two years since Thames breached the terms of its licence by losing its investment grade ratings

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job

CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job

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Sources shed new light on Peter Mandelson’s role in landing £330m contract for software that is slow, subject to frequent crashes and little used

The main purpose of this call for evidence is to give stakeholders the opportunity to provide evidence on agricultural pollution.

There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Before we can even start to resolve Wales’s chemical pollution problem, we need to understand the scale of it.....

The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

George Monbiot, Georgia Elliott-Smith and Steve Hyndside are Fighting Dirty, using the law to stop harmful pollution in its tracks. Find out more and follow our work at https://fightingdirty.org/

Exclusive: Fighting Dirty taking legal action against government over proposal it says could import weaker standards

Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the liv...

Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot