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Disaster nationalism is a form of politics that thrives on the reservoir of dark emotions spawned by environmental and social disasters.

Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing foreshadows much about racism, climate and justice in today's world.

New research published looking at feedbacks resulting from a hotter Arctic, the signal for politicians, and why geoengineering is not the answer.

The battle for human attention is heating up in tandem with the climate.

Shared exploitation: how Spanish-Portuguese competition fostered drought.

How drought-provoked water scarcity is creating tensions between Portugal and Spain.

UK at risk of missing legally binding target to protect biodiversity – report.

New Sporting Tales book and sports climate action hub launch as Paris Olympics braced for hottest summer.

Farmers and residents aren't just neighbours but co-stewards of their rivers, food, and the health and wellbeing of everyone living in this small New Zealand town.

Simon Pirani identifies the likely battlegrounds between social and labour movements and a Starmer-led Labour government.

'Illegal loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers arrive once roads are bulldozed into rainforests.'

The risk of blazing fires is ever-growing in the Lousame region of Galicia - and so the de-eucalyptus brigades were born.

The UK has left an ‘outdated’ treaty that could penalise shift to net zero.

Rampant fires have engulfed the Pantanal in Brazil, devastating endangered species and indigenous communities.

COP28, the Gulf Arab states and the new ‘East-East’ axis of world oil.

New book says when you're in a hole of overconsumption and climate pollution stop digging, by ending the adverts that promote them.

Long-tailed macaques are the most heavily exploited mammals on Earth among species protected in global trade.

Greta Thunberg's 'stand with Gaza' is a historic moment for the global climate movement.

How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy.

The United States no longer depends on the Middle East for fossil fuels - changing the context for the most recent conflict between Israel and Gaza.

Malnutrition and chronic disease are impacting remote Amazonian tribes because of an influx of ultra-processed foods.

The reconstruction of a Brazilian highway 'could result in increased illegal logging, violence, violations of indigenous rights, and catastrophic consequences to local communities and the environment.'

The undisclosed interests trashing our lives - to be revealed in The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism and How It Came to Control Your Life featuring George Monbiot.

The recent recurring ecological shocks may finally be provoking some fresh thinking amongst the world’s elite policymakers.