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Around 700 families were evicted from the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, India in November 2017, following an order of the Guwahati High Court. ZUMA PRESS /ALAMY

25 Nov 2022 4 minute read

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...

A man holds out his hands, holiding a lightbulb with small lights coming out of it. You can't see his face.

12 Oct 2022 5 minute read

Cashing in on energy

In the first of its new series, Heat the Rich, Corporate Watch takes a critical look at Scottish Power. ...

India’s railways are frequently hailed by defenders of the British Empire as a positive legacy of colonialism. While the country has an extensive network which ranks among the world’s biggest employers, it was designed to serve the interests of imperialism and private profit – with the directors of the sub continent’s first railway drawn from the ranks of the East India Company. Here passengers prepare to eat on board a modern-day sleeper train. BOAZ ROTTEM/ALAMY

15 Sep 2022 1 minute read

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Railways: Back on track?

On every continent, the railways are experiencing a renaissance. But what will it take to reshape them in the interests of...

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7 Sep 2022 4 minute read

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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. ...

Photo of Mauricio Ye’kuana, a Brazilian Indigenous leader and Treasurer of the Hutukara Yanomami Association (HAY), who work to protect Yanomami and Ye’kuana communities in the Brazilian Amazon

23 Aug 2022 4 minute read

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The violence of Brazil's 'wildcat' gold mining

Indigenous activist Mauricio Ye’kuana speaks on the dangerous fight to protect his people’s land.

Satellite view of Lake Mead, US, taken on 19 July 2022 during a drought. It shows how little water there is and dry ground around it.

16 Aug 2022 3 minute read

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Climate change? It’s everyone’s problem

It’s naive to assume that rich countries will escape the impacts of a changing climate, argues Nanjala Nyabola...

Hindu women offer prayers to the sun god by venturing into the foam-coated waters of the Yamuna River (a major tributary of the Ganges) in New Delhi, India. The river is responsible for 70 per cent of the city’s water supply but is severely polluted at this stretch. Recently city authorities have taken to deploying blowers to push back the foam from the banks during festivals, so that the faithful can take a holy dip. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS

7 Aug 2022 1 minute read

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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...

Hindu women offer prayers to the sun god by venturing into the foam-coated waters of the Yamuna River (a major tributary of the Ganges) in New Delhi, India. The river is responsible for 70 per cent of the city’s water supply but is severely polluted at this stretch. Recently city authorities have taken to deploying blowers to push back the foam from the banks during festivals, so that the faithful can take a holy dip. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS

2 Aug 2022 12 minute read

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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...

14 Jun 2022 7 minute read

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Cut and run

Transnational oil companies are looking to leave the Niger Delta without cleaning up their mess. Ken Henshaw...

13 Jun 2022 4 minute read

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Fossil fuels – a journey in time

A short history of dependency.

Passersby walk past a mural in Venezuela showing oil drilling. Oil has made an important contribution to Venezuelan state revenues. JOHN VAN HASSELT/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES

7 Jun 2022 12 minute read

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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...

9 Jun 2022 3 minute read

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What if…we said ‘no’ to concrete?

The world is turning grey as more and more concrete is poured. Vanessa Baird posits an alternative.

Hundreds of billboards and bus stops – like this one in Brighton, England – have been hacked by activists across Europe as part of the call to #BanFossilAds and stop greenwashing. DESIGN: NOEL DOUGLAS/INSTALLATION: BRANDALISM

16 Apr 2022 3 minute read

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Can we banish polluters from billboards?

Is it time we banned ads from greenwashing fossil fuel companies? Danny Chivers has some answers.

15 Mar 2022 4 minute read

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‘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...

3 Mar 2022 3 minute read

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What if…we took degrowth seriously?

Ditching planet-popping expansion for justice is a vision worth getting behind, says Dinyar Godrej.

Two men sort betel leaves

28 Feb 2022 6 minute read

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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 –...

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