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How will the Super El-Nino and energy war crisis affect us?
Prolonged instability of the war between West Asia and USA has triggered an energy crisis across the world due to its heavy reliance on oil and gas. The situation is expected to worsen with the forecasted Super El Nino that will take place from June to August.
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Iran war energy shock: 5 reasons renewables are ready to protect people from fossil fuel price spikes
Trump and Netanyahu’s war on Iran is driving up oil and gas prices and deepening the cost of living crisis, but this time the world has a way out. Renewables are already cheaper, faster to build and more stable than fossil fuels, and clean, homegrown energy can shield billions of people from future price shocks.
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5 steps toward a just transition: The modern fight for worker justice
For too long, we’ve been told that we must choose between a healthy planet and a stable job. This is a false choice, engineered by the same polluting elite who benefit from keeping us divided.
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Escalated living costs of plastics
The war in West Asia did not create our vulnerability to oil & gas price shocks; it merely exposed the one we built, barrel by barrel, and plastic bottle by plastic bottle.
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One Year On: The stories that continue beyond Putra Heights
Exactly a year after the Putra Heights gas explosion, the impact of the disaster has not ended for those who have lived through it.
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Why Reuse & Refill beats recycling every time
Corporations’ mass production of plastics and a broken waste management system have contributed massively to a worldwide plastic pollution crisis.
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End the War, End the Dependence for National and Regional Security
As the US-Israel-Iran conflict continues, those at the frontlines continue to be in a state of constant fear, with their basic human rights and livelihoods stripped away. The damage is…
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How is our government responding to the war on Iran and the oil price shock?
We analysed 37 government responses introduced since 28 February 2026 to the Iran war oil shock. Many risk deepening the fossil fuel dependence that caused the crisis in the first place.
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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.
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One year on, Civil Society groups call for Royal Commission of Inquiry into Putra Heights Gas Explosion
On 1st April 2025, a section of the Peninsular Gas Utilisation (PGU) Phase II pipeline failed at Jalan Putra Harmoni, creating an 8-meter-deep crater and injuring over 110 individuals, damaging over 500 homes and hundreds of vehicles, injured more than 110 people, and forcing the evacuation of more than 600 households.