Environment / Energy

As Ghana courts the green transition with its first lithium mine, farmers in Cape Coast say the promised boom has already delivered dispossession, delay and deepening poverty. Amanda Sperber reports.

Tech companies are building enormous data centres and reconfiguring energy infrastructure across the US, all to power the burgeoning AI industry. On a road trip, Maia Woluchem and Livia Garofalo trace the impacts of – and resistance to – this development push.

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

Report on Mexico by Martha Busby.

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

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

Land justice; Ebola-free; Transition triumphs

Report from Canada by Husna Rizvi

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.

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

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

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.

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

Can we end fracking now? asks Mark Engler.

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

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

Claire Fauset reports on resistance and repression.

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

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

Claire Fauset looks forward to a summer of resistance.