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From Ukraine to Iran: how the fossil fuel war playbook makes people pay for crisis
The US and Israel’s war on Iran is not only a human tragedy. It is also a textbook example of the fossil fuel industry’s war playbook, turning oil and gas chaos into record profits while people face higher bills. Governments can either keep playing along, or break the cycle with renewables and justice‑based solutions.
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Forty years on, the Chornobyl disaster remains an ongoing and evolving crisis
This is not simply a commemoration of a past event. 40 years later, this is an ongoing nuclear emergency.
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In Santa Marta, governments can back clean energy, say no to war and oil and gas
As leaders prepare to gather in Santa Marta, Colombia to chart a course away from fossil fuels, the world is being reminded, again, of the cost of coal, oil and gas dependence.
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How the war on Iran exposes the link between fossil fuels, plastics, and price shocks
The US-Israel war on Iran is a human and environmental crisis, but it also exposes how deeply plastics depend on fossil fuels. As oil and petrochemical supply chains are disrupted, prices rise and corporations push more extraction, making the case for reuse, renewables and a strong Global Plastics Treaty even clearer.
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Does clean energy make China immune to fossil fuel price shocks?
The Iran war is sending oil prices soaring again. China’s boom in renewables and electric vehicles offers some protection, but continued coal dependence keeps its energy system dangerously exposed.
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The energy and environmental impact of AI and how it undermines democracy
The AI boom is not progress if it deepens extraction, environmental harm and attacks on democracy. From Ireland to New Jersey, people are resisting a model of AI development that concentrates profit and power while offloading the environmental and social costs onto everyone else.
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Five reasons why safe, sustainable housing is a matter of social and environmental justice
The housing, cost of living and climate crises are interlinked. We need large-scale home refurbishment to free us from fossil fuels and guarantee access to safe, affordable, sustainable housing for all.
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Energy in times of war: From fragility to resilience
War does not remain confined to the front lines; rather, it quickly seeps into homes, kitchens, transportation, generator bills, and the ability of families to secure their basic needs and feel safe and stable.
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How oil tankers stuck in the Strait of Hormuz south of Iran threatens the Gulf ecosystem
An alarming investigation by Greenpeace Germany has analysed the blocked Strait of Hormuz using ship movement data and satellite imagery and simulated the potential consequences of an oil spill in the Persian Gulf.
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You can’t blow up the sun: 4 reasons renewables are a security imperative
When the global economy is dependent on a centralised, combustible resource, missiles do more than just cut off power or disrupt shipping. They rock the very foundation of global stability.