A Rainbow Warrior crew member holds a Comoros flag on the pier outside Kingsnorth power station on 19 October 2008. The Union of the Comoros is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries.Photo: Will Rose/Greenpeace

Temperature Check

Coal power vs people power. Why the climate victories of the past may win us a better future. Words – Danny Chivers.

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NI 553 - Guns and power - January, 2025
Two climate activists scaled Canada's Jacques Cartier Bridge on 22 October 2024, shutting down the major crossing for several hours.Photo: The Canadian Press/Alamy

Climate repression

Canada’s harsh crackdown on bridge-climbing activists exposes the growing criminalization of climate protests, writes Paula Lacey.

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NI 553 - Guns and power - January, 2025
Alexandra Narváez (centre), A'i Cofán leader of the Indigenous Ecuadorian Sinangoe community, left COP16 feeling sidelined.Photo: Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines

Carving Space

Indigenous leaders from the Amazon call out COP16's sidelining of their voices while biodiversity and their homes face relentless threats, writes Beatriz Miranda.

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NI 553 - Guns and power - January, 2025
Fossil Free London protest outside the London office of oil giant BP on 6 December 2023. The demonstration was sparked by Israel awarding the company – and five others – licenses to explore for gas off the coast of Gaza.Photo: Andrea Domeniconi/Alamy Stock Photo

One struggle

Joely Thomas explores the role of activists in showing how climate action and demilitarization cannot be separated.

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NI 553 - Guns and power - January, 2025
Photo: Matias Luge

Eco-friendly fire

Western militaries are taking on a new enemy: climate change. Nico Edwards unpicks the myth of green militarism.

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NI 553 - Guns and power - January, 2025
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

Municipal elections ignore green elephant in the room. By Leonardo Sakamoto.

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NI 552 - Disinformation - November, 2024
Fishing boats damaged by Hurricane Beryl sit upended in Bridgetown, Barbados on 1 July 2024. The earliest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record, its arrival showed the urgency of the climate crisis.Photo: Ricardo Mazalan/Associated Press/Alamy

Temperature Check

Stop digging. Words – Danny Chivers.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
View from India

View from India

Feeling the heat, by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
Climate activists Patience Nabukalu (front centre) and Greta Thunberg (front left) join a protest against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Bonn, Germany on 12 June 2023.Photo: Henning Kaiser/Associated Press/Alamy

Temperature Check

Four sources of climate hope. Words by Danny Chivers.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

What does the Amazon’s worst drought in a century tell us? Asks Leonardo Sakamoto.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Even in cold weather, heat pumps extract enough heat from the air to keep people warm inside their home.Photo: Island Images/Alamy Stock Photo

Temperature Check

Pumped up. Are heat pumps the low-impact solution we need to heat our homes? Words by Danny Chivers.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Hundreds joined a protest outside the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, on 4 September 2023, marching against the continued use of fossil fuels and calling for financial transfers from rich nations.Photo: John Muchucha/Reuters

Sign of the Times

Protest outside the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Standing firm against BP sponsorship of the British Museum’s ‘Troy’ exhibition on 8 February 2020. Hundreds of activists were also joined by a giant Trojan horse.Photo: Imageplotter/Alamy

Temperature Check

Ending the artwash. Words by Danny Chivers.

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NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
An activist holds a placard featuring Gautam Adani during a protest in Delhi, India on 6 February 2023.Photo: Adnan Abidi/Reuters/Alamy

Temperature Check

Coal in a hole. Words Danny Chivers.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Honey trap

Honey trap

Report on beekeeping in Kitui, Kenya by Shadrack Omuka.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Photo: Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann

The Interview: Ayakha Melithafa

The 19-year-old climate activist is making her voice heard across South Africa and beyond. She speaks with Uyapo Majahana about climate anxiety, life lessons and getting beyond tokenism.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
Photo: World Day/Shutterstock

The denial syndrome

Faced with monumental change, we all tend to convince ourselves that our lives will continue unscathed. In the first of our new series, with picks from the New Internationalist archive, we go back to 1990 when Anuradha Vittachi explained why, in the case of climate change, denial – that basic human trait – could bring about our downfall.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
Artists and activists from BP or not BP? disrupt the BP Portrait Award in London, England, on 10 June 2019.Photo: Mark Kerrison/Alamy

Temperature Check

5 good news climate stories from 2022 by Danny Chivers.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Illustration: Tjeerd Royaards

Open Window

‘Climate goals’ by Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands).

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Fifteen-year-old Wakeel, displaced by the floods in Pakistan, prepares a makeshift shelter at a camp in Sehwan, 30 September 2022.Photo: Akhtar Soomro/REUTERS/Alamy

Pushing against the perfect storm

Climate disasters and fossil fuel dependency are ramping up the cost of living crisis. Marianne Brooker looks at the solutions that are there for the making.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Guns and power January, 2025
Guns and power January, 2025
Guns and power January, 2025
Guns and power January, 2025
Guns and power January, 2025
Disinformation November, 2024
Election year September, 2024
Election year September, 2024
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Decolonize now September, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
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