As our structures and systems alienate us from nature and make of it a commodity to be priced up and exploited, we humans hanker for a better balance, the sustaining connection that we know only it can ultimately provide. We have been too long the agents of nature's destruction. Conservation requires our agency, too.

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Nature can be miraculously resilient

Nature can be miraculously resilient. But where we should be fighting tooth and nail to conserve and restore, we often get swept away by corporate greenwash.

The fate of the Aral Sea

In this tale of two halves Paul Lauener reports from Kazakhstan on the fate of the Aral Sea as one part makes what could be the Earth's greatest environmental comeback and another turns into an ecological disaster.

Gulf of Mexico cleanup

There are two kinds of cleanup operations in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion: the real one and the one that allows us to continue indulging in fossil fuel fantasy. Both are problematic, argues Adam Ma'anit.

Ecocide - can it be tried in the International Criminal Court?

Polly Higgins has gone from being a high-flying London barrister to an environmental campaigner. She's on a mission to get extensive ecological destruction recognized as the crime of ecocide which could be tried in the International Criminal Court.

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Argument on budget deficits and public services.

Issue #437 of the New Internationalist magazine also includes: Are cuts in public services justified? Banker Dan Mobley goes head to head with tax justice campaigner John Christensen.

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