Climate Crisis
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
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
Spring has sprung in all its glory — but DAVE BANGS is disturbed by the absence of a crucial sound
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 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
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
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
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
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
Critics slam Cop28's watered-down final climate deal
However, Canadian open-pit copper mine allowed to operate for at least 20 more years
Waiting for demand to fall will be too little too late, climate campaigners warn
Combating climate change is a global emergency. RICHARD HEBBERT looks Britain’s place in this struggle
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
The fight against the newly approved Rosebank oil field ‘is not over’, environmental campaigners warn
Amid increasing floods and drought brought about by climate change, water security and its effective management are going to become pivotal factors in tomorrow’s politics, warns ALAN SIMPSON
Ian Sinclair spoke to respiratory specialist DR LAURA-JANE SMITH about how the impact of air pollution on our health is badly underestimated and the kind of legislation needed across Britain to fight it
‘A truly sustainable fashion industry is one that doesn’t wreck our planet or impoverish and exploit the people in it,’ War on Want says
Earlier this week, CAROL STAVRIS delivered the main report to the Communist Party’s political meeting, covering the small boats crisis, climate change and the drive to war
Survivors of Maui fires face power cuts and poor mobile phone service as teams work to find and ID the dead, report Claire Rush, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Christopher Weber
Carbon market complexities are used to obfuscate the weak evidence that they can meaningfully reduce emissions, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
The US military is the world’s most carbon-intensive institution — and yet its budget just keeps growing, writes ALLIYAH LUSUEGRO
Huge transformations in energy production usage are already underway and Britain is off the pace – brave thinking and brave action are needed if we’re to avert climate calamity, argues ALAN SIMPSON
Campaigners take government to court over its ‘unlawful’ offshore energy plan
For real climate co-operation, which seeks the salvation of our planet and humanity, Sino-US tensions must be eased, argues KEITH LAMB
The ecological crisis caused is already hitting the global South harder than the regions where the capitalists responsible live — anyone disrupting ‘business as usual’ should be applauded, writes ROGER McKENZIE
JAMES NALTON discusses how the narrative surrounding climate activists is increasingly negative, not just from the expected quarters of the Establishment, but from elsewhere too