Environment
Energy
How can we meet everybody’s energy needs on a planet with finite resources?
In this section, New Internationalist discusses fossil fuels and the transition to renewable energy. In response to the rising cost of living, we investigate major players in the energy sector and highlight those profiting from the current energy crisis.
Study: Big Oil shareholders’ profits soar as world melts
A new report shows the dramatic rise in cash earnings of shareholders in Britain’s big oil since the Paris Agreement.
What if… electricity were a right not a commodity?
Universal, free access to electricity could be better for people and the planet. Nick Dowson explores how it could be done.
Heat the rich: British Gas/Centrica
As part of its investigation into firms cashing in on the energy crisis, Corporate Watch turns a critical eye on British Gas.
Heat the rich? Part five: E.ON
As part of its investigative deep dive into energy firms cashing in on the cost of living crisis, Corporate Watch investigates E.ON, the second-largest energy supplier in the UK.
Heat the rich: OVO Energy
In the fourth installment of its series investigating the firms cashing in on the energy crisis, Corporate Watch takes a look at the UK’s 3rd largest supplier, Ovo.
Crisis capitalism: Octopus energy
In the third installment of Heat the Rich – an investigative series on energy firms profiting from the cost of living crisis – Corporate Watch takes a critical look at the UK’s fourth-biggest energy supplier, Octopus Energy.
Cashing in on energy
In the first of its new series, Heat the Rich, Corporate Watch takes a critical look at Scottish Power.
Liz Truss’s bosses’ bailout won’t solve the energy crisis – but people power still can
In Glasgow, a new campaign has gas and electricity providers in its sights – and is taking on the regulator too. Coll McCail explains how the group intends to win.
Fighting the fossils
Profiles of groups from Palestine, Mozambique, Uganda and India who are saying no to new oil and gas infrastructure.
Cut and run
Transnational oil companies are looking to leave the Niger Delta without cleaning up their mess. Ken Henshaw reports.
How we halt Big Oil's climate-wrecking business
We cannot let the fossil fuel industry block urgently needed climate action. Nick Dowson lays out a path to change.
More coal won’t fix the UK’s energy crisis
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, plans to expand a coal mine in South Wales are being touted as a way to solve Britain’s energy woes. Daniel Therkelsen of Coal Action Network explains why it’s is bad news.
Stay or go: villagers vs big coal
Germany may have committed to phasing out coal but that hasn’t stopped mine expansion plans which threaten two villages. Paul Krantz and Leo Frick report.
Saving the Wild Coast from Big Oil
Mike Loewe reports from South Africa on the community fighting to stop Shell from exploration along its wildlife-rich shores.
How we stopped coal in England
Isobel Tarr of Coal Action Network speaks to activists at the forefront of the decades-long movement to end new opencast coal mining about how change was won.
A new frontier for UK coal?
Daniel Therkelsen of Coal Action Network looks at how plans for the mine made it this far and how local people are stepping up to fight it.
Inside the Trojan horse
BP or not BP activist Phil Ball on the love, sweat, and ingenuity of the unprecedented 51-hour creative takeover of the British Museum.
Life after coal
Can we move away from fossil fuels without destroying the communities that rely on them? Sam Adler Bell looks to the devastated US coalfields of Appalachia.
Defusing the carbon bomb
In order to avoid climate breakdown, over 80 per cent of known fossil-fuel reserves must stay in the ground. Danny Chivers has this round-up of social movements targeting mines, rigs, infrastructure and investment.
Why I protested a British Museum exhibition of my own people’s history
Yasmin Younis explains why she protested against a British Museum exhibition of her own people’s history.
Goodbye to the monarchy?
What do republican activists make of this royal wedding? Darren Loucaides finds out.
The Women Who Stopped the Nuclear Deal
Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid won the Goldman Environmental Prize for stopping a secret nuclear deal with Russia. Veronique Mistiaen reports
What is Robert Mugabe’s legacy?
Reporting from Zimbabwe, Nhau Mangirazi examines the legacy of nearly four decades of Mugabe rule.
The People vs Arctic Oil
Environmental groups are suing the Norwegian government after it handed out new licences to drill in the Arctic for the first time in 20 years.
Myth 6: Fossil fuels are more economically viable than renewables
Not if you look at the environmental costs, says Dinyar Godrej.
Escaping carbon slavery: the view from Nigeria
The climate negotiations have done worse than nothing to prevent climate change. Nigerian activist Adesuwa Uwagie-Ero suggests paths toward climate justice.
Dirty games
Azerbaijan will be showing its friendly face this month as it hosts the European Games. But it’s what is going on behind the scenes that is important, argue Emma Hughes and James Marriott.
Desertec: the renewable energy grab?
Desert solar plants planned for North Africa are just another exploitative resource grab, argues Hamza Hamouchene.
Shifting priorities: from arms to renewables
Andrew Smith and Matthew Burnett-Stuart urge the government to reconsider its spending plans.
Madagascar tar sands threat
Kara Moses reports on plans to dig bitumen in a 'biological treasure trove'.
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Will fracking realign the world?
Pundits foresee an altered world order brought on by fracked gas and oil. Dinyar Godrej thinks the changes could play out quite differently.
Introducing... The Eight Great Greenwashers
Ahead of the Rio +20 Earth Summit, Danny Chivers exposes the canny, crafty and plain deceitful claims of corporations co-opting 'sustainability'
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Video: To BP or not to BP?
A group of merry players perform an anti-BP soliloquy to an unsuspecting audience at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
