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Energy and Climate Change

The godfather of the electric car: “The UK will have no auto industry without battery manufacturing”

Andy Palmer, the former Nissan executive, on Britishvolt and why the automotive sector is “staring into the abyss”.

By Emma Haslett

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Why Rishi Sunak is complicit in Shell’s “greenwashed” mega-profits

Energy and Climate Change

Why Rishi Sunak is complicit in Shell’s “greenwashed” mega-profits

India Bourke

Environmental utopias can save the planet

Martha Gill

Energy and Climate Change

“Food cannot be the poor relation to the environment”: The woman pushing back for farmers

India Bourke

Energy and Climate Change

“Spawn of the devil”: the dangerous escalation in Tory climate rhetoric

India Bourke

Dartmoor's wild camping battle is a fight for nature itself

Dartmoor’s wild camping battle is a fight for nature itself

India Bourke

New Year promises won’t resolve our meat problem

India Bourke

Climate

What Greta Thunberg’s arrest means

What Greta Thunberg’s arrest means

India Bourke

How many floods will it take for the Tories to take net zero seriously?

Energy and Climate Change

How many floods will it take for the Tories to take net zero seriously?

India Bourke

Polluting SUVs have the carbon footprint of a major industrial nation

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Polluting SUVs have the carbon footprint of a major industrial nation

Nick Ferris

Cop27: Everything you need to know about the Egypt climate summit

Cop27: Everything you need to know about the Egypt climate summit

Daniel Cody

Nature

Seven swans not swimming: how bird flu came to Christmas

Seven swans not swimming: how bird flu came to Christmas

A family of London swans offer both warning and hope in the face of an overlooked crisis.

By India Bourke

Just transition

Rishi Sunak should remember prime ministers are replaceable, species are not

Rishi Sunak should remember prime ministers are replaceable, species are not

India Bourke

The Tory “attack on nature” will undermine UK security

The Tory “attack on nature” will undermine UK security

India Bourke

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is the biggest climate victory since the Paris Agreement

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is the biggest climate victory since the Paris Agreement

India Bourke

Fuel price protests can't just avoid the climate question

Fuel price protests can’t just avoid the climate question

India Bourke

Food

“As a farming family, we have a part to play in sustainability”

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“As a farming family, we have a part to play in sustainability”

Dead birds falling from the sky is a bad omen for the planet

Dead birds falling from the sky is a bad omen for the planet

India Bourke

How much raw sewage is being released into the sea?

How much raw sewage is being released into the sea?

India Bourke

James Rebanks's Diary: Drought in England, sweat in Italy, and what Liz Truss gets wrong about farming

James Rebanks’s Diary: Drought in England, sweat in Italy, and what Liz Truss gets wrong about farming

James Rebanks