Climate change
18 February 2014
Flood waters bring contamination from overflowing sewers and drains.
18 February 2014
Firefighters have been rescuing those trapped by the floods across Britain.
18 February 2014
Flood defence projects around nuclear sites were among those that didn’t go ahead because of funding cuts.
18 February 2014
Tory ministers and top civil servants have played a dizzying blame game in recent weeks.
11 February 2014
Now that parts of their beloved Eton College are under flood water, you might expect even the Tories to get serious about climate change.
11 February 2014
Floods and storms swept over wide areas of southern England, Wales and the Midlands last week.
11 February 2014
Services cut by politicians would have protected tens of thousands of people, writes Dave Sewell
28 January 2014
Over 300 people poured into a meeting in Burry Port, Llanelli, to voice their anger and concern about plans for underground coal gasification (UCG) in the Loughor Estuary.
28 January 2014
IGas is looking for gas near Salford—but opposition is growing, writes Katherine Jacobs
21 January 2014
With freezing weather confining millions of Americans to their homes for days on end recently, you’d think their TV news would want to discuss climate change. But you’d be wrong.
14 January 2014
David Cameron has announced a bribe worth up to £1.7 million a year in business rates to councils that allow fracking for shale gas.
07 January 2014
The weather has always been difficult to predict. But the past week has been particularly dramatic.
26 November 2013
Around 800 people walked out of the United Nations climate change talks in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday of last week.
19 November 2013
People in the Philippines are still struggling to survive a week after typhoon Haiyan hit.
19 November 2013
As the latest United Nations climate conference takes place Martin Empson examines why governments are so feeble in their efforts to challenge global warming
12 November 2013
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.
29 October 2013
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
01 October 2013
New international report from top climate scientists weakens climate sceptics' arguments
03 September 2013
Anti-fracking protesters in Balcombe, Sussex, began a month of rolling direct action on Monday of this week.
20 August 2013
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.