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Climate Crisis
Britain / 24 November 2024
24 November 2024
World / 24 November 2024
24 November 2024
Britain / 17 November 2024
17 November 2024
Climate protesters demand end to fossil fuels and complicity in Gaza genocide
World / 15 November 2024
15 November 2024
Editorial: / 13 November 2024
13 November 2024
Britain / 11 November 2024
11 November 2024
Protesters hit out at fossil fuel corporations fuelling the climate crisis and profiting from genocide in Gaza
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
World / 30 October 2024
30 October 2024
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
Britain / 28 October 2024
28 October 2024
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
World / 15 October 2024
15 October 2024
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
Britain / 10 October 2024
10 October 2024
Bleak report finds planet is on brink of irreversible climate disaster
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
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
World / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
Britain / 26 September 2024
26 September 2024
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
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
Britain / 13 September 2024
13 September 2024
North Sea oil and gas licences may be ruled unlawful after High Court bans new coalmine
Britain / 13 September 2024
13 September 2024
Britain / 10 September 2024
10 September 2024
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
World / 29 August 2024
29 August 2024
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
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
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
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
Britain / 12 August 2024
12 August 2024
World / 7 August 2024
7 August 2024
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
Climate Crisis / 11 July 2024
11 July 2024
Britain / 25 June 2024
25 June 2024
World / 21 June 2024
21 June 2024
World / 11 June 2024
11 June 2024
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
Britain / 15 May 2024
15 May 2024
Over 440,000 hours of sewage was released along England’s coastline in 2023
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
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
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
Britain / 18 April 2024
18 April 2024
World / 15 April 2024
15 April 2024
Britain / 12 April 2024
12 April 2024
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
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
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
Britain / 26 March 2024
26 March 2024
Britain / 19 February 2024
19 February 2024
Britain / 16 February 2024
16 February 2024
World / 7 February 2024
7 February 2024
Britain / 25 January 2024
25 January 2024
Britain / 27 December 2023
27 December 2023
Editorial: / 27 December 2023
27 December 2023
Britain / 19 December 2023
19 December 2023
Features / 17 December 2023
17 December 2023
The contradictions of oil-producing nations hosting and leading a climate change summit have been unavoidable. They could easily transition to renewable-based economies – we just need a new ‘1945 moment,’ explains ALAN SIMPSON
Britain / 13 December 2023
13 December 2023
Features / 12 December 2023
12 December 2023
Cop28 must tear out ‘the poisoned root’ of the fossil fuel industry if it is to contribute to saving the planet, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP, as she bears witness to the execrable charade in the UAE
World / 11 December 2023
11 December 2023
Critics slam Cop28's watered-down final climate deal
Environment / 23 November 2023
23 November 2023
Britain / 20 November 2023
20 November 2023
World / 5 November 2023
5 November 2023
However, Canadian open-pit copper mine allowed to operate for at least 20 more years
World / 3 November 2023
3 November 2023
Britain / 25 October 2023
25 October 2023
Britain / 24 October 2023
24 October 2023
Waiting for demand to fall will be too little too late, climate campaigners warn
Features / 3 October 2023
3 October 2023
Combating climate change is a global emergency. RICHARD HEBBERT looks Britain’s place in this struggle
Features / 30 September 2023
30 September 2023
The Prime Minster’s net zero U-turn makes no long-term economic sense and will leave working people and the poorest in our society counting the cost, says REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP
Britain / 28 September 2023
28 September 2023