Climate change
01 September 2019
The climate emergency was brought to life in central Manchester this weekend as activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR) mounted a four-day occupation.
27 August 2019
In just three weeks, people could walk out of their workplaces worldwide to join the strike for the climate
27 August 2019
Energy giant Cuadrilla has caused the biggest fracking-induced earthquake in Britain to date
27 August 2019
The blaze in the Amazon rainforest has been met by worldwide anger on the streets
27 August 2019
Sadie Robinson looks at what is distinctive about workers striking and why it is an especially powerful form of resistance.
23 August 2019
Hundreds of people turned their despair at the burning of the Amazonian rainforest in to fury at Brazil’s government and big agribusiness on Friday.
22 August 2019
Three activists from climate change direct action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) have been convicted after being arrested on protests earlier this year.
20 August 2019
People in Iceland held a “funeral” last Sunday for the country’s first glacier lost to climate change.
20 August 2019
Gabby Thorpe looks at the plight of people displaced by climate chaos and argues that we should welcome refugees
18 August 2019
The deforestation unleashed by Brazil’s far right president is a big threat to the environment. But, Gabby Thorpe argues, we can’t trust those world leaders who have attacked him either
13 August 2019
The police watchdog will investigate how cops handled the investigation into the death of a 12 year old school student in Greater Manchester.
13 August 2019
climate Activists across Britain are getting ready for a series of local “Rebel Risings” starting from this weekend.
12 August 2019
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report on humans, land use and a changing climate last week.
11 August 2019
Most people in Britain recycle—yet staggering amounts of waste go to landfill. That’s because the real problem is how capitalism operates, not individual behaviour, writes Gabby Thorpe
09 August 2019
Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists called for a “swarm” at a roundabout near the approach to London’s Blackwall tunnel on the busy A102 on Friday.
08 August 2019
Sarah Bates examines whether rewilding can help stop the coming climate catastrophe
07 August 2019
More than five million people in Zimbabwe face hunger or starvation, according to the United Nations (UN).
06 August 2019
Alistair Farrow explains how the revolutionaries Marx and Engels looked at humans’ interaction with the natural world
06 August 2019
The younger royals like to foster an image of being progressive fighters for social justice. This was somewhat marred last week by a visit made by prince Harry to join a conference on saving the world.
06 August 2019
A dam holding around 1.3 million tonnes of water seemed set to collapse.