Oil

The top ten must-read articles published by The Ecologist this year.

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.

The world burns. But oil exploration continues. It could cost the earth. And local communities are already paying the price.

More than half of UK oil workers would switch to work on renewable energy if given the opportunity to retrain, new survey shows.

South Africa's Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing must take responsibility for ongoing ocean grabbing.

This weekend's wave of direct action in Germany shows that we can and should take climate justice into our own hands.

Covid-19 and the fall in oil prices has pushed Iraq towards calamity, underlining the urgency of ending the country's fossil fuel dependency.

Expansion of Surrey oil wells would have a much wider impact on the wider population, future generations and the fight to halt climate change.

The UK government has spent nearly £4 billion pounds of UK public funding on fossil fuel infrastructure in the global south since the Paris Agreement was signed.

Donald Trump’s administration is sweeping away environmental regulations that protect you, America and the world from pollution.

BP offers business-as-usual dividend payout despite historic drop in profits.

UK government admits BP drilling permit process was unlawful. Greenpeace will now apply to have BP’s permit quashed on climate grounds.

Big oil ramps up efforts to gag climate campaigners as BP’s rig operator Transocean takes on Greenpeace in court.

BP deal criticised by artists in British Museum's new exhibition.

The UK government has endorsed plans by oil giant Shell to leave some decommissioned North Sea oil infrastructure in place.

Oil and gas explorers are gearing up to drill offshore Ireland in a bid to boost its energy independence from Britain.

Environmental and human rights campaigners write to oil giant Shell threatening legal action in bid to stop catastrophic climate breakdown.

Hydraulic fracturing is still a ‘known unknown' in South Africa's ongoing energy debate. And whilst two weeks ago communities in the KwaZulu-Natal province made it clear they don't want fracking, President Jacob Zuma does. Jasper Finkeldey reports

New Scientist Live at London's ExCel Centre is described by its organisers as 'a festival of ideas and discovery'. But the popular magazine has had a particularly bad idea already – the festival's sponsors, argues CLAIRE JAMES

ExxonMobil has been funding high quality science while also funding and supporting climate denial. So should scientists continue to accept money from oil companies and other vested interests? KATHARINE HAYHOE, a climate science professor, discusses her own early ExxonMobil funding and the ethical issues it raises

Environmental campaigning groups including Greenpeace and WWF publish a joint report today calling on the UK Government to bring forward the proposed ban on petrol and electric cars to 2030.
JOE WARE reports

We’re 55 million years too late for hydraulic fracturing to work in the UK, claims Professor John Underhill, the chief scientist at Heriot-Watt University. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports

There will be enough fossil fuel-burning stuff - cars, homes, factories, power plants - built by next year to blow through our carbon budget for a 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise. Never mind staying below a safer, saner 1.5 degrees of global warming, warns STEPHEN LEAHY