Nature

The UK government has announced planning reforms to ‘accelerate infrastructure delivery and homebuilding while safeguarding the environment’. However, government rhetoric around planning has been inconsistent, sending mixed signals on whether environmental protections will be upheld, warn campaigners.

We support communities fighting harmful resource extraction, such as mining and fracking. Learn about our current campaigns and our past wins.

Funds for communities hosting pylons welcomed - and should be extended to wind and solar farms too

Primate expert Serge Wich, part of the team that identified the Tapanuli orangutan as a new species, explains why they’re threatened and how to protect them.

The banned pesticide has been granted for emergency use every year since 2021, until now

UK-based company Jardine Matheson wants to expand its gold mine in Indonesia. Learn how this would further devastate wildlife, the rainforest and local people.

Water firm bosses could face up to two years in jail for obstructing investigations into law-breaking over sewage spills

Find out about the data and methodology used by Friends of the Earth to identify pollution hotspots for wildlife.

The new Labour government is rightly planning to build millions more homes. But it’s not as simple as tearing up planning rules. Sustainability Analyst Paul De Zylva and Senior Planner Magnus Gallie explore how house building can be done in a way that doesn’t cost the Earth.

Friends of the Earth and The Co-operative Bank join forces to breathe life back into thousands of nature-deprived spaces across the country