An actor, two big bees and a lot of experts: a week spent tackling the planet’s problems

World’s largest conservation summit since Covid-19 brought 4,000 people to Marseille to showcase issues and solutions from coral reefs to land protection At times in Marseille’s early autumn sun, pre-pandemic life felt tantalisingly close at the world’…

Scottish campaigners condemn Cop26 as ‘the most exclusionary ever’

Activists say almost 2,000 people on waiting list for place to stay owing to lack of affordable accommodationScotland-based climate campaigners have condemned “the most exclusionary Cop ever”, as they reveal a waiting list of nearly 2,000 delegates and…

From Boudicca to modern Britain: the dream of island utopias, ruled by women

Once the British Isles were seen as a stronghold of female leadership. Patriarchal culture pushed these stories to the geographical margins – yet they live on, a force too potent to ignoreThroughout history, the idea of islands where women rule has bee…

Cop26 will be ‘rich nations stitch-up’ if poorer countries kept away by Covid

Environmental activists demand delay to Glasgow climate talks if costs and travel restrictions block attendance of those worst-hitThe Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow should be postponed until the government can ensure that the talks won’t be a “rich na…

Climate change deniers are as slippery as those who justified the slave trade | Nick Cohen

Global warming sceptics should be hiding in corners. But still some defend the indefensibleNo one seems as defeated as the global warming “deniers” who dominated rightwing thinking a decade ago. Like late 18th-century opponents of abolishing the slave …