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People in the Philippines are still struggling to survive a week after typhoon Haiyan hit.

Rescue workers were fighting to get to outlying regions of the Philippines hit by typhoon Haiyan as Socialist Worker went to press. In the worst-hit city of Tacloban more than 10,000 people are thought to have died.

We are told that Britain faces an energy crisis unless we build new nuclear power plants. Energy researcher Gerry Wolff told Socialist Worker that the crisis is fake—we don’t need nuclear

New international report from top climate scientists weakens climate sceptics' arguments

Anti-fracking protesters in Balcombe, Sussex, began a month of rolling direct action on Monday of this week.

 More than 1,000 people marched through the West Sussex village of Balcombe on Saturday of last week, against plans to frack for shale gas.

The blind pursuit of profit means capitalism is taking us ever faster toward climate catastrophe, says John Parrington

The Tories are throwing money at some of Britain’s biggest firms to fund dangerous fracking projects. But their hopes of a “shale gas revolution” won’t benefit workers—and will create a disaster for the environment, writes Dave Sewell

Fracking aims to extract gas and oil locked in shale rocks by blasting them with a mixture of water, sand and chemicals and fracturing the rocks.

Sections of Britain’s ruling class are desperate to find a magic solution that can end the crisis. Some hope copying the US fracking boom could be it.

Dave Sewell argues that global warming is behind extreme weather trends, but it can be stopped

Up to 200 people attended a conference on Confronting the Climate Crisis on Saturday of last week.