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Oil and gas firms are pressing governments hard not to impose any measures on Myanmar that might hurt their profits.

Twenty five years ago this week nine protest leaders in Nigeria were executed who were fighting environmental destruction caused by fossil fuel giant Shell.

The star-studded drama can’t quite decide what kind of film it wants to be. But Simon Basketter says it’s enjoyable watching it try to work it out 

Large numbers of offshore workers want green industries and jobs. They can deliver change—but they are ignored by those at the top, reports Sarah Bates 

A long-running border dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan has flared up with some of the heaviest fighting in four years.

The destruction in Norilsk, Russia, is shaped by the connected issues of climate change and the profiteering interests of private companies.

Activists have taken their anger at the climate crisis straight to one of the drivers of the ecological catastrophe

On Monday night the price of West Texas Intermediate oil, used as a benchmark in oil pricing, plunged by over 300 percent to almost minus $40 dollars a barrel.

Multinational bosses plan to keep pumping out more oil and gas—despite climate catastrophe. Sarah Bates looks at why we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground and why the industry is so central to how capitalism operates

Boris Johnson was happy to take a £14,000 gift in travel and hospitality from the Saudi Arabian government last autumn, which he declared in his financial interests.

North Sea oil rig workers struck for 12 hours on Monday and a 24-hour strike is planned for Monday 20 August.

Workers began a 24-hour strike on three of energy multinational Total’s North Sea oil platforms.