I saw Greta Thunberg for the first time in Poland at the end of last year. It was during the early days of the Katowice UN climate negotiations. She was sitting in a makeshift TV studio, having her...
New media organisations feature climate science deniers more than climate scientists, while the mainstream media promotes “false balance”, according to a new study published today in Nature Communi...
How far would you go to tackle climate change? In Rosie Watson’s case, pretty far.
In two weeks’ time, the 24-year-old activist will run from the Lake District to Asia in an attempt to change the ...
Whitehaven is a small port town on the coast of Cumbria, where coal means both life and death.
It was death in 1947, when an explosion at the William Pit killed 104 miners, and again in 1910, when...
ExxonMobil will retain its ability to lobby the European Parliament after MEPs refused to take away their badges.
The ability of the oil major to meet with Brussels decisionmakers was under questi...
Across Europe, right-wing populist parties are picking up votes. In some countries, once-fringe parties have gained enough support to propel them into the halls of national power. But, for most, an...
With millions of students taking to the streets and oil majors increasingly facing litigation, the fossil fuel industry is finally being held to account for its contribution to the climate crisis.
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The UK is facing intensifying criticism over its continued funding of overseas fossil fuel projects.
At the latest hearing of the government’s enquiry into the UK’s export credit agency (UKEF), ex...
North East England is facing the threat of another opencast coal mine, which could extract up to 800,000 tonnes of coal from beneath agricultural land on the border between Newcastle and Northumber...
Shortly before violent protests broke out in the oil-producing city of Basra in Iraq, British government representatives visited an oilfield partially operated by BP, and praised the company’s “imp...
