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Democracy Dies in Crude Oil
Environmental activists rarely get to celebrate a major win for the planet, but that’s what happened in Ecuador in August last year. After a decade-long struggle between activists and the government, a...
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Money Pit
This will be Keir Starmer’s HS2: a hugely expensive scheme that will either be abandoned, scaled back or require massive extra funding to continue, after many billions have been spent. The government’s...
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Carbon Capture Means More Pollution for Black Communities in Cancer Alley
Rosemary Green and her husband live mere feet away from a massive chemical storage depot that hugs the Mississippi River just west of New Orleans. Over 200 tanks of the International-Matex Tank...
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Climate Disasters Only Slightly Shift the Political Needle
Even amid what seems like a never-ending series of deadly and destructive climate extremes across the country, including heat waves in the Southwest, wildfires in California and hurricanes and flooding...
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The Environment Is the Economy, Stupid.
“If you choose to stay … you are going to die,” said the mayor of Tampa, Florida, two days before Hurricane Milton was predicted to make landfall—less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene wrought...
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The Challenge and Reality of the Green Energy Transition: A Reply to Peter...
This is a reply to the recent polemic against renewable energy by Peter Gelderloos. We agree with a number of the points Gelderloos makes. But we disagree with his claims about renewable energy and we...
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Activist Killings In Colombia, Critical Context For The COP-16
Colombia’s biodiversity is as varied and enormous as the panorama of violence facing those fighting to conserve it. But the Colombian state appears to have forgotten the plight of land defenders, who...
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Preventing Climate Change Isn’t Expensive. Doing Nothing Is.
There’s no other way to say this: worrying about how much it costs to prevent catastrophic climate change is patently absurd. It is absurd in a political system where money is simply conjured out of...
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Oil Companies Are Still Determined to Burn the Planet Down
This is an extract from Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market by Adam Hanieh, now available from Verso Books. A few weeks into 2023, the world’s largest oil and gas...
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Earth’s Water Cycle Off Balance for ‘First Time in Human History’
Decades of mismanagement of water resources, deforestation, and the fossil fuel-driven crisis of global warming have put “unprecedented stress” on the Earth’s water systems, according to a new report,...
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In the Shadow of King Coal
Writer and director Elaine McMillion Sheldon begins her latest documentary, King Coal, with a funeral rite. A multigenerational, multiracial procession of people in black clothing walks slowly up a...
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Third-Party Funder is the Only Winner in Odyssey Marine Exploration’s Suit...
Mexico is trying to protect the environment and fishing communities off the country’s northwest coast from the harmful effects of offshore mining. For that, the government will in all likelihood pay a...
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COP or CON? How Big Conservation Captured Biodiversity Protection
Heads of state and ministers from across the world will meet for the COP16 biodiversity summit from 21 October to 1 November in Cali, Colombia. Credit: COP16. Some 31 years after the Convention on...
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“An Ecological War Is Going On”: Uganda Charcoal Booms Despite Ban
When Mustapha Gerima decided to drop in on his home village of Midigo in northern Uganda’s Yumbe district in 2016, he never imagined the visit would change the whole trajectory of his life. He was...
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Election Throws Uncertainty Onto Biden’s Signature Climate Law
President Joe Biden’s signature climate change law passed Congress by the narrowest of margins, without a single Republican in favor. GOP leaders have attacked the bill and promised to repeal it. Yet...
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COP16: It’s Wild-West Capitalism Versus Life on Earth
All eyes should be on the salsa dancing capital of the world, Cali, Colombia, where representatives of 190 nations are joined by a broad swath of global civil society and international Indigenous...
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Outrageous Anti-Protest Laws Can’t Silence the Climate Movement
In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of Bach outside Citibank’s headquarters in New York City....
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New Scientific Report Confirms World Leaders Failing to Meet Climate Goals
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its annual emissions gap report today. According to this latest analysis, global heat-trapping emissions have yet to peak, and the world is on...
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Activist Diary #6: First Aid Drop to Western North Carolina
Hurricane Helene killed at least 230 people across six states in the southeastern United States. Western North Carolina was especially devastated, with 95 people reported killed at the time of this...
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The Plastics Industry’s Wish List for a Second Trump Administration
Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed last month is a wish list, not of tough new mandates to get a handle on the world’s plastic’s crisis, but of regulatory rollbacks and...
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COP29 Must Kickstart Stalled Progress on the Lifeline That is Adaptation
2024 has been another brutal year for Africa in terms of climate change. From the Horn of Africa to Mozambique, Malawi and the Congo, the continent has faced record-breaking temperatures, devastating...
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BRICS Rejects Global Climate Action
Sovereignty was the theme of this year’s BRICS Summit, the 16th annual conference of major oil producing and rapidly developing countries. BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—are now...
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Billionaires Emit More Carbon Pollution in 90 Minutes than the Average Person...
The first-of-its-kind study, “Carbon Inequality Kills,” tracks the emissions from private jets, yachts and polluting investments and details how the super-rich are fueling inequality, hunger and death...
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The U.S. Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
No country is immune from water scarcity issues—not even wealthy countries like the United States. Population growth and climate change are stretching America’s water supplies to the limit, and tapping...
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The GOP Playbook for Sabotaging Environmental Regulations
The devastation throughout the southeastern United States in the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton has laid bare the importance of strong climate policy, including adaptation and mitigation...
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Pre Election Nightmare
We are almost at the abyss. It is a date circled on the calendar, like a dental cleaning, a car safety inspection or an execution. All of American history has shuffled forward to this moment....
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Who Pays for Climate Damages? Making Big Oil Pay Is Most Popular Policy...
Making the oil and gas industry pay for climate impacts is ranked as the favoured policy choice, according to a survey conducted in eight countries across five continents by strategic insight agency,...
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Uganda: It’s time for Total and CNOOC to Clean Up and Go Home
From a distance, anti-oil protests in Uganda might not make much sense. After all, the country has discovered “black gold.” Big multinationals with world class expertise and global clout have offered...
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Trump Would Be an “Extinction-Level Event” For the Planet, Turbocharging...
UC Berkeley scholars warn that “With plans to expand the production of fossil fuels, curtail environmental regulations, dismantle key climate monitoring agencies and even undermine the Endangered...
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