The Ouarzazate Solar Power Station in Morocco is one of the world’s largest solar power projects.Photo: Teresa Dapp/DPA/Alamy Live News

The El Dorado of energy

Amid the buzz surrounding green energy from the Arab world, Hamza Hamouchene sounds an alarm.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Pipe down

Pipe down

Report on Mexico by Martha Busby.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Illustration: Thewet Nonthachai/Shutterstock

Shadow courts

Juliet Ferguson investigates the Energy Charter Treaty, an international agreement which could be very bad news for energy policy across the Global South.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
What remains: inhabitants of Aldeia da Paz, a village in Cabo Delgado, after a 2019 attack by Islamist militants.Photo: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty

Explosive mix

Big international players are moving in to exploit Mozambique’s vast natural gas resources – but to whose benefit? asks Sophie Neiman.

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NI 528 - A caring economy - November, 2020
Illustration: Emma Peer

Reasons to be cheerful

Land justice; Ebola-free; Transition triumphs

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
An example of the proposed solar plant for Port Augusta.Photo: SolarReserve

...Port Augusta gives coal the boot

Port Augusta had long been South Australia’s coal-fired powerhouse. But a five-year-long community campaign has delivered solar success and an end to the smokestacks, reports Dan Spencer.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Rose Kandodo from Nessa with an improved Aleva stove. She is able to afford the device because her husband has a job on the tea plantation nearby.

The cookstove community

Meeting the people trying to have an impact on Malawi’s health and environmental crisis.

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017
Chief Paulo Douglas of Mulumbe ordered tree-planting in his village – as an investment for his grandchildren.

A woman's burden

To collect firewood, Malawian women are travelling farther from home by the day as deforestation escalates – and this makes things harder at home, too.

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017

The rich, the poor and the earth

While it is clear that equality matters in terms of health and happiness, surprising new data reveals that it is also better for the environment – in the more equal rich countries, people on average consume less, produce less waste and emit less carbon.

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NI 504 - The Equality Effect - July, 2017
The downside to electric cars

The downside to electric cars

They may be good for the environment, but not for those mining the cobalt needed to manufacture their batteries, writes Neil Thompson.

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NI 499 - African village - January, 2017
Photo: tinyfroglet under a CC licence

One gas leak too many

Can we end fracking now? asks Mark Engler.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016
Just too dear: sometimes despite energy being available it can be unaffordable. This mother in  Soweto, South Africa, protests against the prices of state utility Eskom.Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

The energy fix

What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016
Big hydro bad news

Big hydro bad news

Klara Sikorova bemoans the destruction of communities in Georgia caused by big hydropower projects.

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NI 491 - Last stand - Saving the world's forests - April, 2016
Mapuche refuse fracking

Mapuche refuse fracking

Claire Fauset reports on resistance and repression.

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NI 488 - 10 economic myths - December, 2015
Belle Mellor

Myth 6: Fossil fuels are more economically viable than renewables

Not if you look at the environmental costs, says Dinyar Godrej.

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NI 488 - 10 economic myths - December, 2015
Drowned out by big oil: 13-year-old Laurel from Children Against Global Warming performs inside the BP-sponsored British Museum in September 2015, as part of the growing movement against oil sponsorship.Photo: Natasha Quarmby / Art Not Oil

Still biting

Big Oil's history of denial, delay and distortion is laid bare by Greg Muttitt.

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NI 487 - Paris climate summit - November, 2015
Global frack-down

Global frack-down

Claire Fauset looks forward to a summer of resistance.

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NI 483 - Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion - June, 2015
Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun

Solar energy could be the answer to Shatila's power problems, writes Lydia James.

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NI 483 - Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion - June, 2015
A clear view: Sign on the site of a proposed windfarm in Herefordshire, England.Photo: Alex Ramsay / Alamy

Why the war on wind?

Surveys tell us that the public love wind power, so why do certain countries see such fierce campaigns against it? Helle Abelvik-Lawson investigates.

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NI 480 - The great green energy grab - March, 2015

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Climate capitalism January, 2024
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
A caring economy November, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Humans vs robots November, 2017
The Equality Effect July, 2017
African village January, 2017
Technology justice May, 2016
Technology justice May, 2016
Last stand - Saving the world's forests April, 2016
10 economic myths December, 2015
10 economic myths December, 2015
Paris climate summit November, 2015
Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion June, 2015
Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion June, 2015
The great green energy grab March, 2015
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