Focus

Burning Up

A fortnight-long focus about climate breakdown, who it’s impacting, and how we fight it.

Burning Up

A fortnight-long focus about climate breakdown, who it’s impacting, and how we fight it.

Death by Pollution

Do we all breathe the same air? Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was a nine-year-old girl who lived in south-east London and died in 2013. The cause of death was listed as air pollution, now her mother is fighting to make clean air a human right.

Opinion

Aerial view of deforestation.

Green Capitalism Will Never Succeed in Tackling Climate Breakdown

Leon Sealey-Huggins

Opinion

9 Books for Getting to Grips With the Climate Crisis

Gaya Sriskanthan, Chris Saltmarsh & Adrienne Buller

The Bodies on the Gears: How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm argues in How to Blow Up a Pipeline that the climate movement must act against the infrastructure of death. He joins James Butler to discuss.

Analysis

What Does It Take to Win Climate Justice?

Nathan Thanki

Report

Why Are NGOs So Bad at Saving the Planet?

Ben Smoke

Opinion

Meat Without Animals Isn’t Some Utopia. It’s a Future Already on Its Way

Aaron Bastani

Can Lab-Grown Meat Save the World? Aaron Bastani Meets Michael Selden

On this week’s Downstream, Aaron Bastani meets Mike Selden, co-founder of Finless Foods – a cellular agriculture business in California – to find out whether lab-grown meat can live up to the hype.

Analysis

The Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry Could Be Disastrous for Workers. Now’s the Time to Nationalise It

Kate Aronoff

Opinion

To Bring About a Just Transition, Unions and the Climate Movement Must Work Together

Chris Saltmarsh

Opinion

John Kerry at COP Paris

We’ll Always Have Paris?

Adrienne Buller

Only Pleasure Can Save the Planet

Philosopher Kate Soper joins Clare Hymer to discuss alternative hedonism, political optimism and post-growth living.

Opinion

A nuclear reactor

Is It Time for the Left to Back Nuclear Energy?

Craig Gent

Analysis

Streams of smoke coming out of an oil refinery at sunset

Can Big Oil Be Trusted Now?

Joe Sandler Clarke

Opinion

An aerial photograph of mineral mines, overlaid with map imagery.

Can We Go Green Without Plundering the Global South?

Harpreet Kaur Paul

Long Read

Arctic Turbulence: Why Indigenous Communities Are Fighting Wind Farms

S Reid-Collins

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