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Is Earth’s climate written in the stars?

Alasdair speaks to professor Dagomar Degroot about his new book, “Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean,” exploring how the solar system impacts our climate, and how this has affected human history.
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Wim Carton and Andreas Malm
  • Opinion

How will capitalism react to climate collapse? 

Abject failure to treat the causes of climate change, rather than the symptoms, has made solar geoengineering all but inevitable, say Wim Carton and Andreas Malm.
Frederike Klümper and Joanna Trimble
  • Opinion

Climate diplomacy must shift focus from markets to land rights

Land tenure is key to climate goals, but carbon markets have had harrowing impacts on local communities. A new agenda on adaptation must succeed where decarbonisation has failed, say Frederike Klümper and Joanna Trimble.
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Biomass exposed

Drax biomass led to disabling health conditions, say unions and workers

Read our series of investigations on the UK’s biomass supply chain, watch clips from the BBC Newsnight documentary, and explore international news coverage.

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Cooling towers at Drax Power Station in April 2025. ©️Land and Climate Review

Latest investigations

  • Bioenergy, Politics & law

Drax biomass led to disabling health conditions, say unions and workers

The UK's largest power plant is facing worker lawsuits after the national health and safety regulator dropped criminal charges over biomass dust in 2023, a Land and Climate Investigation can reveal.
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  • Agriculture, Politics & law

La loi Duplomb: a gift for the French agro-industrial complex? 

How a proposed farming law sparked one of the largest political mobilisations in modern French history.
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  • Fossil fuels, Markets, Politics & law

How Exxon is using international law to sue the Dutch government

Exxon owes the people of Groningen millions in compensation for damage caused by gas extraction. Thanks to a legal instrument, it could be the residents of the province that end up compensating the fossil fuel giant.
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Latest Analysis

  • Politics & law

A longstanding battle: Māori efforts to protect the Whanganui River

In an excerpt from their new book, Dana Zartner, Fabian Cardenas, and Mohammed Golam Sarwar reflect on the most famous case of nature being granted legal personhood.
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  • Adaptation, Culture

Seeing the storm ahead

Adaptation is not only about finance and technology - it is about visualising change. Bertie Harrison-Broninski reads John Vaillant's 'Fire Weather' and Stephen Robert Miller's 'Over the Seawall'.
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  • Mining

Sacrifice in the salt flats, for a greener future

Dr Camila Vergara sifts through the politics of lithium extraction in Chile.
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Is Earth’s climate written in the stars?
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Can tech really save us from climate disaster?
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Is the race for minerals unnecessary?
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