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Opera Review / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
STEF LYONS is stirred by a new opera that toys with ecological themes, but doesn’t get properly polemical
A view of the stadium from Wood Street Bridge across the Riv
Climate Crisis / 16 March 2025
16 March 2025
Extinction Rebellion activists protest outside the Royal Cou
Britain / 7 March 2025
7 March 2025
Just six years cut from 41-year jail sentence for Just Stop Oil activists
A climate activist interrupts Chancellor Rachel Reeves's key
Britain / 2 March 2025
2 March 2025
a general view of Aberdeen Harbour in Scotland, which has be
Features / 28 February 2025
28 February 2025
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
People taking part in a Cop28 London march protest outside B
Editorial: / 26 February 2025
26 February 2025
President Donald arrives to speak at the Republican Governor
World / 21 February 2025
21 February 2025
HP dome
Features / 15 February 2025
15 February 2025
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
Activists from Fossil Free London and Green New Deal Rising
Britain / 12 February 2025
12 February 2025
Campaigners against the bridge are seeking to save the natur
Features / 12 February 2025
12 February 2025
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
Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demons
Voices of Scotland / 4 February 2025
4 February 2025
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
Activists from Fossil Free London and Green New Deal Rising
Features / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
BERNIE EVANS despairs of a government that is asking the crooks sucking Britain dry how to get the economy back on track
A plane flies past a
Britain / 26 January 2025
26 January 2025
The Oil platform Stena Spey is moved with tug boats amongst
Britain / 12 January 2025
12 January 2025
Ministers urged to nationalise North Sea fossil fuels to prevent massive taxpayer bailout and a just transition when the reserves run dry
A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire as it burns a struc
Britain / 10 January 2025
10 January 2025
World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns
Firefighter Geo Mulongo (centre) finishes his water while ta
World / 10 January 2025
10 January 2025
Grant Douglas pauses while evacuating as a wildfire reaches
Britain / 30 December 2024
30 December 2024
Governments must dramatically slash emissions and support the transition to a renewable future in 2025, UN says
A child rides a bike at Whitelee Windfarm in East Renfrewshi
Britain / 13 December 2024
13 December 2024
But Unite warns that Labour has ‘missed a golden opportunity to bring the national grid under public ownership’
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Features / 13 December 2024
13 December 2024
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
Disposable vapes of varying flavours on sale in a shop
Britain / 11 December 2024
11 December 2024
Activists participate in a demonstration at the Cop29 UN Cli
Britain / 24 November 2024
24 November 2024
Protesters during the Climate Justice Coalition's March for
Britain / 17 November 2024
17 November 2024
Climate protesters demand end to fossil fuels and complicity in Gaza genocide
Activists participate in a demonstration calling for climate
World / 15 November 2024
15 November 2024
A screen displaying the Azerbaijan flag sits near power line
Editorial: / 13 November 2024
13 November 2024
Activists demonstrate for climate justice and a ceasefire in
Britain / 11 November 2024
11 November 2024
Protesters hit out at fossil fuel corporations fuelling the climate crisis and profiting from genocide in Gaza
ACTION: A Fossil Free London activist disrupts the 2023 Shel
Features / 9 November 2024
9 November 2024
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
Residents look at cars piled up after being swept away by fl
World / 30 October 2024
30 October 2024
Extinction Rebellion demonstrators end four days of action w
Features / 29 October 2024
29 October 2024
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
A private jet comes in to land at Stansted Airport in Essex,
Britain / 28 October 2024
28 October 2024
shrub
Books / 25 October 2024
25 October 2024
PAUL DONOVAN applauds a highly important book that appears at a crucial time in the present biodiversity and climate crisis
A woman walks along a path in a drought-stricken field in Zv
World / 15 October 2024
15 October 2024
Shadow Energy Secretary Ed Miliband on board the jack-up bar
Features / 10 October 2024
10 October 2024
The government’s reliance on unproven and short-termist technology won’t deliver answers to today’s energy crisis, warns MARK MASLIN
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (centre), Energy Security an
Britain / 10 October 2024
10 October 2024
Bleak report finds planet is on brink of irreversible climate disaster
Climate campaigners from Extinction Rebellion Scotland prote
Features / 6 October 2024
6 October 2024
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 supporters sit on the floor after throwing sou
Features / 4 October 2024
4 October 2024
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
A resident reacts as a wildfire approaches the village of An
World / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
Stop Climate Chaos members, dressed as Big Oil CEOs, in blac
Britain / 26 September 2024
26 September 2024
Sand
Science and Society / 25 September 2024
25 September 2024
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
Reeves
Features / 19 September 2024
19 September 2024
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
Oil platforms standing in the Cromarty Firth near Invergordo
Britain / 13 September 2024
13 September 2024
North Sea oil and gas licences may be ruled unlawful after High Court bans new coalmine
People demonstrate in Leeds today as part of a global day of
Britain / 13 September 2024
13 September 2024
A general view of the Sizewell nuclear power plant in Suffol
Features / 6 September 2024
6 September 2024
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
Workers collect dead fish from a river near the port city of
World / 29 August 2024
29 August 2024
Just Stop Oil protesters take part in a walking protest bloc
Features / 24 August 2024
24 August 2024
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
Insulate Britain campaigner Dr Diana Warner outside Stratfor
Britain / 21 August 2024
21 August 2024
General Medical Council on ‘the wrong side of history,’ campaigners say, after tribunal suspends Insulate Britain activist from the medical register for 3 months
fires
Features / 13 August 2024
13 August 2024
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
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (centre) talks to journalis
World / 12 August 2024
12 August 2024
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
Protesters during a Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) Paddle-Out
Britain / 12 August 2024
12 August 2024
A boat sits above a section of the Great Barrier Reef above
World / 7 August 2024
7 August 2024
Just Stop Oil activists
Britain / 5 August 2024
5 August 2024
Arrests come as towns and cities across north still smoulder from days of rioting, looting and attempted lynchings
People protesting against Barclays sponsorship of the Wimble
Climate Crisis / 11 July 2024
11 July 2024
Donald Trump
World / 21 June 2024
21 June 2024
A stranded fin whale stuck on its belly, in a shallow fjord
World / 11 June 2024
11 June 2024
A swift in flight
Features / 17 May 2024
17 May 2024
How is this much-loved migratory bird species faring as rising temperatures change when seasons arrive, asks ALEXANDER C LEES
Lake Windermere, Cumbria, during the warm Spring Bank Holida
Britain / 15 May 2024
15 May 2024
Over 440,000 hours of sewage was released along England’s coastline in 2023
roups including Friends of the Earth Scotland, Stop Climate
Features / 14 May 2024
14 May 2024
Major cities underwater, a billion climate refugees — many scientists now expect societal collapse due to climate change. Yet from the political elite here in Britain, we have nothing even approaching acknowledgement, writes IAN SINCLAIR
A cuckoo
Notes From A Free Walker / 11 May 2024
11 May 2024
Spring has sprung in all its glory — but DAVE BANGS is disturbed by the absence of a crucial sound
a man driving a car in traffic at night
Features / 9 May 2024
9 May 2024
Rishi Sunak’s propaganda glamorising car culture aims to whip up anti-green backlash from a fantasy world of tweed caps and open-top Morgans in a cynical vote-grabbing ploy, writes SALLY WILTON
In this courtroom sketch, former US President Donald Trump (
World / 15 April 2024
15 April 2024
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (left) and shadow energy secretar
Britain / 12 April 2024
12 April 2024
Models on the catwalk during the Mark Fast show at Orchard P
Features / 9 April 2024
9 April 2024
In light of their vicious exploitation of workers and the massive ecological cost they bring, the government should be clamping down on fast fashion brands like Boohoo and Shein. Instead, it is enabling them, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
8 - climate crisis
Features / 2 April 2024
2 April 2024
Speaking to RUPERT READ, Ian Sinclair discusses the urgency of climate action, the demise of the 1.5°C target, and the pivotal role of trade unions in building a majority against climate change
Emissions
Features / 30 March 2024
30 March 2024
Research reveals that companies are still getting away with driving climate change through methane emissions — but new tracking technology may finally make enforcement of regulations a reality, writes CRISTEN HEMINGWAY JAYNES
Scottish Labour's Katy Clark arrives at the Scottish Parliam
Britain / 26 March 2024
26 March 2024