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Cyclone Pam devastated the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu last week.

New research underlines the risk of climate disaster unless there is radical change—adding extra urgency to next month’s Time To Act protest.

Around 250 protesters with a contingent of tractors rallied against fracking outside Lancashire county council in Preston last week.

Up to 2,000 people marched through London last Saturday against the renewal of Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons.

World leaders met for United Nations (UN) talks in Lima, Peru, last week—and took us closer to climate disaster.

Over 300 people gathered at the gates of Ineos Grangemouth refinery in the cold and rain for the No Fracking Falkirk protest.

A new United Nations Synthesis Report on climate change makes grim reading, and despite attempts by various governements to skew its findings, it is unambiguous in its conclusions.

Martin Empson reviews Naomi Klein’s book, and argues that only getting rid of capitalism can stop climate change

“I am convinced that climate change represents an historic opportunity to advance policies that dramatically improve people’s lives, close the gap between rich and poor, create huge numbers of good jobs and reinvigorate democracy from the ground up.” So says Naomi Klein is her latest book, This Changes Everything. In a call to arms, Klein...

Can Marxism help us understand our relationship with the environment? Did Marx himself ignore the role of nature? And do his theories need to be updated to incorporate ideas from the green movement? Paul Burkett’s Marx and Nature, along with Marx’s Ecology by John Bellamy Foster, was a major contribution to these debates. Marx and...

Hydraulic fracturing has rescued the oil and gas industry, producing huge profits and cutting dependence on crude. But the price to be paid will be huge.

Hundreds of thousands of people marched for action against climate change last Sunday in a global day of protest that wildly exceeded organisers’ expectations.