Reflections on a Heatwave • Adrienne Buller
Thoughts from our weekly newsletter on a record-shattering heatwave and the direction of climate politics.
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The Great Biodiversity Bake Off • Audrey Irvine-Broque, Jessica Dempsey
Biodiversity markets promise to generate finance to protect vital ecosystems. In doing so, they entrench the very austerity conditions that make them vulnerable in the first place.
• 10 min read
Santa Marta Versus Fossil Capital • Wim Carton, Joel Wainwright
The radical potential of the Santa Marta conference is already under threat. The gathering in Colombia marked a historic moment, but the moment must be seized.
• 10 min read
The Chapel and the Nuclear Plant • Robert Newton
At a remote Essex chapel shadowed by a dormant nuclear plant, a battle over a new reactor is reshaping old conflicts between conservation, community and state power.
• 18 min read
Why Climate Politics Still Matter • Casey A. Williams
Amidst geopolitical upheaval, many see hopeful signs for renewed momentum on decarbonization. But what if this optimism actually amounts to a surrender?
• 9 min read
North Sea Nationalisms • Ewan Gibbs
Fantasies of Britain’s past continue to shape the country's energy politics and illusions.
• 13 min read
Return to Treasure Island? • Rebekah Diski and George Edwards
Reform UK’s fossil fuel nationalism may be a fantasy, but it exploits the very real contradictions of Britain’s energy transition.
• 11 min read
Oil War II • Kate Mackenzie, Patrick Bigger and Kevin Cashman
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran.
• 14 min read
Electro-Capitalism • Gareth Fearn
In the transition from fossil capital to electricity capital, the future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.
• 16 min read
Three Peaks • Noah Gordon
The story of climate action is one of peaks—promised, assumed or still to come.
• 13 min read
Nothing to Lose but Our Mains • Sammy Feldblum
The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a scandal. It's a case study in how privatized systems strain under climate pressures, aging infrastructure and the limits of market governance.
• 15 min read
Javier Milei and the Long Shadow of the IMF • Lola Allen
In Argentina, economic chaos and political upheaval expose how the IMF's promise of stability has become an instrument of managed decline.