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Climate Crisis
STEF LYONS is stirred by a new opera that toys with ecological themes, but doesn’t get properly polemical
Just six years cut from 41-year jail sentence for Just Stop Oil activists
Rich natural resources built Aberdeen twice, but today it lies almost abandoned, as our city faces a third major transition — and the renewable energy future threatens same old exploitation, warns LARA FLANNERY
The government’s nuclear power expansion plan is a hollow betrayal of working people that panders to wealthy corporations and will rip off consumers, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Furious campaigners claim that Oxford University is colluding with the council to squander £10m of public funds for a new bridge that wrecks a nature reserve, reports BERNY TORRE
There is little benefit coming to Scotland or the wider UK from projects like Rosebank or Jackdaw – or indeed renewables – as profits are siphoned out of the country by foreign companies, writes PAULINE BRYAN
BERNIE EVANS despairs of a government that is asking the crooks sucking Britain dry how to get the economy back on track
Ministers urged to nationalise North Sea fossil fuels to prevent massive taxpayer bailout and a just transition when the reserves run dry
World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns
Governments must dramatically slash emissions and support the transition to a renewable future in 2025, UN says
But Unite warns that Labour has ‘missed a golden opportunity to bring the national grid under public ownership’
IAN SINCLAIR highlights a recent book chapter by climate scientist Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, who warns ‘a world full of horrors’ can expected if climate catastrophe is not averted
Climate protesters demand end to fossil fuels and complicity in Gaza genocide
Protesters hit out at fossil fuel corporations fuelling the climate crisis and profiting from genocide in Gaza
As a new report reveals how dire the climate situation is now, other recent research demonstrates how activism – namely Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes – has already forced governments into action, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Will Labour live up to its campaign promises and support this vital Bill as it passes into the next stage of its passage through Parliament, asks TOM HARDY
PAUL DONOVAN applauds a highly important book that appears at a crucial time in the present biodiversity and climate crisis
The government’s reliance on unproven and short-termist technology won’t deliver answers to today’s energy crisis, warns MARK MASLIN
Bleak report finds planet is on brink of irreversible climate disaster
Insurers and regulators now openly ignore the ecological crisis as they continue to support contributors to climate breakdown, and British law is on their side — that’s why XR will be targeting them again, writes TOM HARDY
Just Stop Oil activists aren’t out to destroy art, they are here to save us. We should thank them not jail them, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Sand and gravel underpin almost all urban development — but the extraction of these vital materials is unsustainable and causes untold damage, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how one of the organisations shaping Labour’s investment plans was created by Tories and bankers, looking like a slightly green-flecked PFI vehicle instead of a body for proper investment
North Sea oil and gas licences may be ruled unlawful after High Court bans new coalmine
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER condemns Starmer’s willingness to let children go hungry and the elderly shiver while pouring billions into doomed nuclear projects that won’t address the climate crisis
Social scientist DANA R FISHER speaks to Ian Sinclair about the efficacy of disruptive actions carried out by groups such as Just Stop Oil, the conditions that might generate a truly mass climate mobilisation, and what a win for Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election would mean
General Medical Council on ‘the wrong side of history,’ campaigners say, after tribunal suspends Insulate Britain activist from the medical register for 3 months
A new study has found that forests destroyed by wildfires emit carbon long after the flames die, with implications for post-fire management, write NATASCHA KLJUN and JULIA KELLY
Construction of the new city will cost at least $33bn and is being carved out of Borneo's jungle, putting indigenous people and endangered wildlife at risk
Arrests come as towns and cities across north still smoulder from days of rioting, looting and attempted lynchings
How is this much-loved migratory bird species faring as rising temperatures change when seasons arrive, asks ALEXANDER C LEES
Over 440,000 hours of sewage was released along England’s coastline in 2023