Climate change
Take on the system to stop climate chaos
11 February 2014Now that parts of their beloved Eton College are under flood water, you might expect even the Tories to get serious about climate change.
Widespread chaos after floods sweep Britain
11 February 2014Floods and storms swept over wide areas of southern England, Wales and the Midlands last week.
Tories laid the ground for Britain's flood crisis
11 February 2014Services cut by politicians would have protected tens of thousands of people, writes Dave Sewell
Hundreds meet in Llanelli to oppose coal gas plan
28 January 2014Over 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.
Locals and trade unionists join forces against fracking Barton Moss
28 January 2014IGas is looking for gas near Salford—but opposition is growing, writes Katherine Jacobs
Climate reporting - It’s the end of the world as we know it, but TV feels fine
21 January 2014With 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.
Protest in Salford as Cameron goes "all out" for fracking
14 January 2014David Cameron has announced a bribe worth up to £1.7 million a year in business rates to councils that allow fracking for shale gas.
A chilling thought
07 January 2014The weather has always been difficult to predict. But the past week has been particularly dramatic.
Mass walkout at UN climate talks in Warsaw
26 November 2013Around 800 people walked out of the United Nations climate change talks in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday of last week.
Filipinos fight to survive in aftermath of typhoon Haiyan
19 November 2013People in the Philippines are still struggling to survive a week after typhoon Haiyan hit.
After typhoon Haiyan - capitalism and the climate
19 November 2013As the latest United Nations climate conference takes place Martin Empson examines why governments are so feeble in their efforts to challenge global warming
Philippines typhoon shows the price of poverty
12 November 2013Rescue 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 don't need nuclear power
29 October 2013We 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
World is getting dangerously warmer, whatever the climate ‘sceptics’ say
01 October 2013New international report from top climate scientists weakens climate sceptics' arguments
Anti-fracking protesters begin new phase of protest
03 September 2013Anti-fracking protesters in Balcombe, Sussex, began a month of rolling direct action on Monday of this week.
Shale gas firm forced to halt drilling as activists camp out
20 August 2013More than 1,000 people marched through the West Sussex village of Balcombe on Saturday of last week, against plans to frack for shale gas.
Melting and methane could speed up climate change
13 August 2013The blind pursuit of profit means capitalism is taking us ever faster toward climate catastrophe, says John Parrington
Fracking - is the gas price bubble about to burst?
06 August 2013Sections 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.
Fracking - it's deep and it's dangerous
06 August 2013Fracking 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.
What's behind the fracking frenzy?
06 August 2013The 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
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