Environment / Climate Change

Four sources of climate hope. Words by Danny Chivers.

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

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

Protest outside the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ending the artwash. Words by Danny Chivers.

Coal in a hole. Words Danny Chivers.

Report on beekeeping in Kitui, Kenya by Shadrack Omuka.

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.

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.

5 good news climate stories from 2022 by Danny Chivers.

‘Climate goals’ by Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands).

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.

COP27 and the demands for climate loss and damage finance. Report by Emma Mckeever.

The people’s burger

Report from India by Gurvinder Singh.

Applied science. Danny Chivers reports on A Scientist Rebellion in The Netherlands.

We said ‘no’ to concrete? The world is turning grey as more and more concrete is poured. Vanessa Baird posits an alternative.

Can we banish polluters from our billboards? Words by Danny Chivers.

As climate change stretches human fragility towards breaking point, should we be preparing for societal collapse? This is the existential question behind ‘deep adaptation’, a theory that is rapidly gaining adherents. Richard Swift assesses how far, if anywhere, it will take us and what better paths we could go down.

How can we phase out fossil fuels in a way that works for people everywhere? The historic Cochabamba People’s Agreement offers a way forward, argues Max Ajl.