Environment
This section considers how we can build a world that works both for the planet and for its people. We draw attention to the perils of deep sea mining and continued coal extraction while considering solutions to the environmental crisis through interview pieces and critical analysis of current, technological solutions.
Who’s backing Glencore’s toxic mining? (You, perhaps?)
Banks and pension funds in the UK and Europe are helping to ruin lives in Colombia and Peru, Vanessa Baird writes.
Carbon credits are dispossessing African communities
Instead of cutting their emissions, big polluters are exploiting the continent’s forests.
History on repeat: Aberfan and Mariana
Rebecca Jarman and Diana Salazar report on the stark similarities between two mining-related tragedies.
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.
View from Brazil: Agribusiness lobby scuppers climate gains
Brazil wants to be a beacon in the fight against global warming, Leonardo Sakamoto writes. Its powerful agribusiness lobby has a different view.
Electric cars – climate saviours or eco-villains?
Should we believe the hype about electric cars? Danny Chivers assesses the state of play.
The Ogiek won reparations, now they want results
One year after a court ruling, the Ogiek are still waiting for reparations. Amy Hall reports on a case that could change the lives of Indigenous people across the region.
Britain’s great coal scandal
The UK’s largest opencast coal mine has ‘illegally’ extracted 300,000 tonnes of coal after being ordered to close. Daniel Therkelsen of Coal Action Network reports on this shocking state of affairs.
The interview: Vandana Shiva
The Indian physicist and veteran food sovereignty activist speaks to Amy Hall about a lifetime of keeping smiling while fighting the lies of the ‘poison cartel’.
The race is on to stop deep-sea mining
Graeme Green reports on why this is a critical year to stop destructive deep-sea mining from taking hold of the world’s oceans.
Food barons are making a killing from this crisis
Ahead of their event on resisting monopoly capitalism, Global Justice Now’s Nick Dearden explains the rise of ‘food billionaires’, and what we can do to challenge their power.
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.
For whose protection?
A target to turn 30 per cent of the world’s land into protected areas for nature by 2030 is set to be agreed by world leaders in December. But not everyone is happy about it, as Amy Hall reports.
Our right to the land
It brings power and wealth to whoever holds it, but land should be treated as a public good, argues Amy Hall.
Land back
Riley Yesno explores some of the ways the Indigenous-led movement is redistributing land and wealth in North America.
Cashing in on energy
In the first of its new series, Heat the Rich, Corporate Watch takes a critical look at Scottish Power.
‘No one goes there, not even dog walkers’
Hundreds of people take part in a ‘mass trespass’ to save an ancient woodland under threat from the development of a Center Parcs holiday resort. Amy Hall reports.
An Indian tale of inter-species solidarity
All That Breathes is a strangely beautiful tale of India’s climate and political struggles. Husna Ara writes.
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.
The violence of Brazil's 'wildcat' gold mining
Indigenous activist Mauricio Ye’kuana speaks on the dangerous fight to protect his people’s land.
Rivers: holy waters
We need thriving rivers in order for life on Earth to flourish. But often how we treat them shows little understanding of this basic principle. Dinyar Godrej ventures into the maelstrom.
Rivers: holy waters
We need thriving rivers in order for life on Earth to flourish. But often how we treat them shows little understanding of this basic principle. Dinyar Godrej ventures into the maelstrom.
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.
Can we banish polluters from billboards?
Is it time we banned ads from greenwashing fossil fuel companies? Danny Chivers has some answers.
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.
‘We will oppose it until the end of our lives’
Shadrack Omuka reports from Kenya’s Arabuko Sokoke forest on the threat posed to East Africa’s largest coastal forest from titanium mining.
What if…we took degrowth seriously?
Ditching planet-popping expansion for justice is a vision worth getting behind, says Dinyar Godrej.
Trapped in the state-corporate nexus
Villagers in the Indian state of Odisha are fighting a major steel plant development, in the face of intense repression – yet again. Aritra Bhattacharya reports.
