Time is rapidly running out to prevent catastrophic climate impacts to the Earth’s polar ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost - decision-makers at COP30 must act now, say leading polar scientists.
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.
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.
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.
Women are neglected by climate funding, despite their pivotal role in Indigenous land management and climate resilience, say Namnyak Sinandei Makko and Omaira Bolaños.
After three years of negotiations, delegates must not compromise on their principles at the UN's final session to decide international legally binding rules on plastic pollution, says Punyathorn Jeungsmarn.
Donald Trump is dismantling all sources of independent opinion in the United States to increase the power of the presidency, says John Holdren, former Presidential Science Advisor to Barack Obama.
How do agricultural monopolies create higher food prices? Is market concentration at breaking point for seeds, agrichemicals and farm tech? Jennifer Clapp explains.
Carbon offsets mean little while tech companies enable high-intensity consumption and fossil fuel investment, say Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni, in an excerpt from their new book.
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.
Since 2010 the country has lost forest cover three times the size of New York City in mining zones for critical minerals, stripping away the country’s resilience to climate-related catastrophes, including typhoons and floods.
Space travel comes with atmospheric risks – and if corporations take over the world beyond our orbit, who will regulate extraterrestrial waste and mining?
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.
A small US town will soon be submerged by rising sea levels, but its residents' views have been mocked and dismissed on national TV. In an extract from her new book, Anne Helen Toomey explores failings in climate communication.
In an extract from his new book, Ståle Holgersen questions the idea that climate change presents an economic threat, arguing that capitalism is flexible enough to make money from both destroying and saving the planet - all at the same time.
Camille Corcoran talks to experts about investor-state dispute settlements, which allow fossil fuel companies to bring multi-billion dollar lawsuits against countries that pass green policies.
Biofuels are the latest driver of plantation monocultures eroding biodiversity and Afro-Colombian culture in the Cauca Valley, says María Arango, following a new report.
Drax “must be held accountable,” says US Senator for Maryland Chris Van Hollen, after The Times and Land and Climate Review reveal the bioenergy company violates US regulation an average of five times per day.
A new investigation by Land and Climate Review and The Intercept has found that Drax broke regulations while constructing a new pellet mill in Washington State.
This month, the British power company has been issued another fine in Mississippi, with additional penalties expected in Louisiana. In collaboration with The Intercept, Land and Climate Review talk to experts and locals about Drax's operations in the US Southeast.
Academic research offers a different story from news media on Sri Lanka's short-lived ban on agrochemicals. Bertie Harrison-Broninski explores what really happened, and whether there's a future for national-scale organic policy.
New research looked at an adaptation project funded by the World Bank & UNFCCC-run Green Climate Fund. Instead of helping farmers, it helped their corporate partners.
Austin Frerick describes how US farming policy created a grain monopoly, in an extract from his acclaimed 2024 book 'Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry'.
Brutal management practices are making forest increasingly fragile and can no longer be ignored. State-organised forestry is slowly collapsing, says Peter Wohlleben.
The UK’s largest power station began importing wood from Canadian pellet plants 12 years ago. The mills, bought by Drax Group in 2021 & 2022, have breached environmental regulations 189 times.
Europe has lost 800 farmers a day since 2010 – the sector has real issues that need fixing. Backtracking on climate will only appease lobbyists, not protesters, says Thin Lei Win.
Will this week mark the end for the EU's corporate responsibility bill? That would be a shameful legacy for Germany's FDP, says Environmental Justice Foundation CEO Steve Trent
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'.
Without adequate environmental impact assessments, new renewable energy projects risk damaging India's Open Natural Ecosystems say Sanjana Nair & Dr. Abi T. Vanak
The EU successfully regulated illegal fishing with a 'carding' system in 2010. It should take the same approach with the upcoming forced labour law, says the Environmental Justice Foundation's CEO.
Governments are not doing enough to shape and regulate this newly burgeoning industry. The UK should lead the way with a new regulatory body, says Green Alliance's Faustine Wheeler.
Guinean bauxite is the source of aluminium in everything from our office buildings to our cars - but the bauxite supply chain is a black box of human rights issues.
The human impact of petrochemical plants along the Houston Ship Channel prove that Amnesty's recommendations to the EU are vital, say the authors of a new report.
Artisanal mining has been demonised by big industry, and oversimplified in the press - in reality miners, large corporations, and government are all intertwined in the DRC, says Dr. Sarah Katz-Lavigne in an interview with Lauren Sneade.
Europe's demand for lithium is set to soar to 60 times current levels, with cobalt and graphite 15 times higher. But how will proposals for new EU mining and refining interact with the EU's role as a champion of biodiversity and development?
We must not ignore a hugely important metric to help us solve the ‘twin crisis’ of biodiversity loss and climate change, says Professor Patrick Moriarty
Deep sea mining could trigger a multitude of environmental, climatic, and social justice issues - there are better means of sourcing minerals, says Jessica Battle, who leads WWF’s 'No Deep Seabed Mining Initiative'.
Ahead of a key vote in European Parliament on 1st June, Solidaridad's Catarina Vieira warns that the law risks cutting smallholder farmers out of European supply chains, forcing them into even less regulated markets.
As the EU looks to finalise the re-cast Renewable Energy Directive as part of the Fit for 55 package, this briefing examines the science against burning solid biomass for energy.
In a review of Matt Simon's book 'A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies', Bertie Harrison-Broninski asks whether plastic pollution gets enough attention.
Experts expect more than half of the voluntary carbon market to be carbon removals by 2030. The sales are happening already - but the removals are not.
Lauren Sneade reads Rosetta Elkin's "Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation" and asks a controversial question: is the very concept of afforestation rooted in colonial violence?
As keeping global heating to 1.5°C looks increasingly unlikely, some academics are suggesting we use aerosols or salt to block out the sun. Are they right, or risking everything?
What does the future look like? According to the UK’s Science Museum, and by implication Shell, the oil and gas giant sponsoring this exhibition, it looks like a corporate expo.
Too many uncertainties exist around enhanced weathering for it to be implemented, despite significant potential. The EU must be less frugal with R&D or the private sector will step in and transparency will suffer, says Amann Thorben.
Debt-for-climate swaps are an effective mechanism to relieve poverty and help wealthy countries meet their climate finance obligations, says Avishka Sendanayake.
Climate adaptation should not be approached with universal solutions. Designed primarily by and for affluent communities, the solutions considered best practice are often examples of “maladaptation,” causing more problems in the long term than the challenges they are trying to solve.
'A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land' is a touching elegy for nature lost to consumerism, says Lauren Sneade.
Part utopian fiction, part political philosophy, and part climate policy analysis: Bertie Harrison-Broninski reviews the ambitious new work from Verso books.
38 scientists have written a public letter to EU governments and the European Parliament over concerns around the Bioenergy Provisions of the Fit for 55 Plan.
Even conservative estimates show the climate crisis has cost poor countries more than half a trillion dollars already - it is past time to define and fund loss and damage, say A. Karim Ahmed and Jeffrey D. Tamucci
As timber becomes more widely-used in the construction industry, our assistant editor compares new timber materials to concrete and steel, asking the question 'is wood good?'
In the last entry in our series of long reads explaining CCS, Bertie Harrison-Broninski investigates the reasons carbon capture projects have such a ropey track record.
In the second article in our CCS series, Bertie Harrison-Broninski explains why CCS has a different status to other saviour tech: its place in climate modelling.
Increased droughts, floods, and storms due to climate change are eroding African food security. New research shows that agricultural and cereal aid are not helping.
In the first in a new series of long reads explaining CCS, Bertie Harrison-Broninski digs into how the tech works, whether we're on track with deployment, and what we can learn from CCS's track record.
Polluted with waste and chemicals, and threatened by sprawling urbanisation, our rivers are dying. Some countries are giving them legal personhood for protection - will it work?
Roman Vakulchuk of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs discusses his research into untapped minerals in Central Asia that could be used for the global clean energy transition.
Loss and damage from climate change has already cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Professors A. Karim Ahmed and Audrey Chapman propose a mechanism to address the moral and financial debt owed by highly industrialised nations.
There are a lot of issues with the net zero framework - Holly Jean Buck's new book could go further in imagining alternatives, says Bertie Harrison-Broninski.
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