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Coca Cola, Pepsi and Nestle named world’s worst plastic polluters in 2020
Image showing plastic pollution found on beach in Malaysia
Environment

Coca Cola, Pepsi and Nestle named world’s worst plastic polluters in 2020

Young people take charge of climate crisis talks with Mock COP26
In a crowd of people outdoors, a hand holds up a placard that reads
Environment

Young people take charge of climate crisis talks with Mock COP26

Is this 'Green Industrial Revolution' enough to get ahead on climate change?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks through Whitehall with papers under his arm
Environment

Is this 'Green Industrial Revolution' enough to get ahead on climate change?

Climate change threatens UK’s supply of fresh fruit after Brexit, says report
Fruit and vegetable of all colours pile high at a market stand
Environment

Climate change threatens UK’s supply of fresh fruit after Brexit, says report

Label food with its impact on the planet, doctors say
Environment

Label food with its impact on the planet, doctors say

Fake billboards target HSBC over ‘climate colonialism’
In 2018 HSBC committed to ending funding for new coal projects outside of Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia, but the policy did not apply to schemes already backed by the bank.
Environment

Fake billboards target HSBC over ‘climate colonialism’

The Big Exchange launches to ‘let people do better with their savings’
The Big Exchange
Money

The Big Exchange launches to ‘let people do better with their savings’

"Climate concern is distinctly unremarkable. Why is not more being done?"
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Joseph Hearn

"Climate concern is distinctly unremarkable. Why is not more being done?"

The Big Exchange adds Nordea to growing ethical funding platform
The Big Exchange
Money

The Big Exchange adds Nordea to growing ethical funding platform

Artist creates stunning wildlife collages using scraps of The Big Issue
carole baughan
Art

Artist creates stunning wildlife collages using scraps of The Big Issue

Discovering the wonder of lockdown wildlife with Dara McAnulty
Environment

Discovering the wonder of lockdown wildlife with Dara McAnulty

Earth Day 2020: How the COVID-19 will change the way we look at the planet
Kathleen Rogers

Earth Day 2020: How the COVID-19 will change the way we look at the planet

Inside the future of humanity: Svalbard’s Global Seed Vault
Seed Vault Nordgen
Environment

Inside the future of humanity: Svalbard’s Global Seed Vault

How are homeless people in Australia affected by the bushfires Down Under?
Australia wildfires Getty
Environment

How are homeless people in Australia affected by the bushfires Down Under?

Chris Packham: "Punk is coming back to save the planet"
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Environment

Chris Packham: "Punk is coming back to save the planet"

'We live our lives in a way that impoverishes the natural world'
Environment

'We live our lives in a way that impoverishes the natural world'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Bristol makes moves to be first UK city to ban diesel cars
Diesel
Environment

Bristol makes moves to be first UK city to ban diesel cars

Going in search of the magic money tree
Money

Going in search of the magic money tree

Mapping the future of ethical investing
Money

Mapping the future of ethical investing

Collected speeches of school striker Greta Thunberg to be released as book
Greta Thunberg
Books

Collected speeches of school striker Greta Thunberg to be released as book

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