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27 Jul 2020 3 minute read

In an uncertain global future, is it ethical to have children?

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter...

12 Mar 2020 2 minute read

Confessions of a frequent flyer

Nanjala Nyabola on making amends for high-carbon lifestyles.

11 Mar 2020 4 minute read

Recording climate catastrophe

Louise Gray on sonic journalism, a novel way of recording the decline of...

Car drivers in Bogotá, Colombia, spent 271 hours in traffic jams during 2018, in Dublin 246 hours and in London 227 hours, according to global traffic data cruncher INREX

16 Nov 2019 3 minute read

What if...cities became car-free?

Vanessa Baird on how to turn a toxic bane into a liberating blessing.

A demonstrator wearing a Guy Fawkes mask waves a Mapuche indigenous flag during a protest against Chile's government in Santiago, Chile October 31, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

12 Nov 2019 5 minute read

Chile is evading scrutiny on climate justice

The relocation of the UN climate summit to Spain is a distraction from growing state repression.

17 Oct 2019 5 minute read

Negotiating a just retreat from rising seas

As cities begin planning for coastal erosion, relocating residents has paved the way for land grabs, forced evictions and a...

11 Oct 2019 4 minute read

Diary of a rebel

Charlotte Greene* shares a powerful and personal account of 24-hours with Extinction Rebellion’s October...

3 Oct 2019 3 minute read

What if...the world turned vegan?

Vanessa Baird dreams on. Or maybe not?

23 Sep 2019 13 minute read

What we cannot avoid

Jeremy Seabrook on the virulent nostalgias which obscure an essential conflict – how to reconcile the needs...

18 Sep 2019 5 minute read

Voices from the global climate strike

The global climate strike is a crucial mobilization against ecological breakdown. Adam Weymouth speaks to...

15 Jul 2019 3 minute read

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Five paths to combatting climate breakdown

Climate breakdown is in the spotlight. Danny Chivers offers five ways to seize the moment.

20 Mar 2019 2 minute read

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A Green New Deal for the US and beyond

Can this much lauded proposal help advance internationalist aims? Mark Engler argues that it could.

7 Jan 2019 5 minute read

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Pigs that cross...

In talks about trade, something vital is omitted: the environment.

5 Aug 2018 2 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

The carbon bubble

Yohann Koshy looks at the impending catastrophe linking the stock market to climate change.

5 Jun 2018 5 minute read

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If we all became vegan tomorrow

The Guardian repeats the myth that becoming vegan is the ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth....

30 May 2018 4 minute read

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Rising tide of court cases threatens Shell’s polluting business model

It is illegal to set fire to someone’s house, Sara Shaw and Freek Bersch write.

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