Protests, pledges and alpacas: 2021’s environmental year in review
The progress of the natural world often evades easy categorisation, but this year contained some notable moments.
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Danger, dehydration and doorbells: what it’s like delivering Christmas shopping for Amazon
For Amazon drivers, the festive season is a time of precarious employment and unsustainable workloads handed out by unseen algorithms.
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The Big Mac goes in for Big Greenwash
The first UK net-zero McDonald's restaurant hasn’t got the memo on beef.
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“A further act of colonisation”: why indigenous peoples fear carbon offsetting
Despite new rules agreed at Cop26, many think that carbon markets could still be used to aid the theft of…
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Robert Del Naja: why we need a Massive Attack on climate misinformation
Artists are joining with campaigners to demand an end to greenwashing.
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Are the UK’s most polluting companies really going to plan for net zero?
Can airlines and coal mines ever do business in a sustainable way?
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Tesla: the trillion-dollar personality cult
Is the car company’s share price too bound up in the personality of its enigmatic CEO, Elon Musk?
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Why Big Oil is about to experience its “Big Tobacco” moment
A historic congressional hearing with oil executives may not have produced a smoking gun, but the tobacco industry has showed…
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