We cannot let the ever-expanding oil and gas industry stand in the way of urgently needed climate action. Nick Dowson lays out a path to change.
This isn’t working.
Wherever Big Oil goes, it brings devastation. Spills smother ecosystems; air pollution chokes cities. Earthquakes follow fracking and gas...
A massive ice shelf on the edge of Antarctica is starting to crack. Fissures began appearing in the ice holding back the Thwaites glacier – a sheet the size of Florida which could raise sea levels around the world by more than half a metre, should it slip into the Southern Ocean.
Geophysicists estimated th...
A selection of feature articles from each of the latest New Internationalist magazines.
Covid-19 has pushed the world’s caregivers to the limit and beyond. Amy Hall explains how their work continues to be undermined and undervalued.
Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird offers several good reasons why it should.
There’s still time to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. Can we pull it off? Hazel Healy makes the case for conditional optimism.
The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird in the first of an eight-article exploration?
Can peacebuilders end the war with Boko Haram in Nigeria? Hazel Healy travels there to find out.
It’s 10 years since the global financial system almost sent the world into a great depression. Yohann Koshy takes stock of what went wrong and where we are now.
A selection of articles from the New Internationalist magazine archives.
The struggle to define Russia’s future is under way but those hoping for a more progressive post-Putin Russia shouldn’t hold their breath, writes Tina Burrett.
Theatre of War by Andrea Jeftanovic; Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev; How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm; Imagining Orwell by Julio Etchart.
Subi Shah interviews 13 year-old Erica Armah-Bra Bulu Tandoh, aka DJ Switch.
Letter from Johannesburg. Yewande Omotoso ponders how belonging to a city goes beyond the bald fact of living in it.
Nick Dowson speaks with an indigenous lawyer and campaigner fighting a gas pipeline in Mexico.
Kim Jong-un's headline grabbing aggressive irrationalism takes some beating (though he might have met his match in recent times...)
The pandemic has affected livelihoods on an unprecedented scale. As the gears begin to turn again, the scarring effects on work may persist.