Environment and climate

Covering the uneven impacts of climate emergency on land and communities in the Global South, plus movements for degrowth, sustainable living, and action to combat greenwash and denialism

Covering the uneven impacts of climate emergency on land and communities in the Global South, plus movements for degrowth, sustainable living, and action to combat greenwash and denialism

  • Black and white image of protesting Lucas Aerospace workers from documentary The Plan

    Looking forwards to the Lucas Plan

    An idea from fifty years ago offers solutions to today’s economic, technological and environmental crises, writes Adrian Smith

  • Protestors on either side of a road allowing a tractor to drive through

    Water apartheid and green colonialism

    From the occupied West Bank, Farah, Noah and Calico examine how Israel uses water to dispossess Palestinians of their lands and livelihood – and how they are resisting

  • A black and white photo of hands holding aloft a cardboard sign that reads: 'planet over profit'

    Fires in the Night – review

    Gareth Thompson reviews a nail-biting history of environmentalist direct action

  • A Palestinian boy on a donkey looks at Israeli military vehicles, during a large scale military training in the northern Jordan Valley, West Bank

    Zionist pogroms and shepherding outposts

    In their latest dispatch from the West Bank, Farah, Calico and Noah report on evolving Israeli tactics for stealing Palestinian land

  • Four plastic miniature workers depicted as working on top of a circuit board

    Behind the ‘intelligent’ chatbot

    Angela Chukunzira, Tyler Finken and Finn Jetses highlight multinational resistance to AI’s social and ecological impact

  • A montage of images, including faces of Trump, Starmer, Farage, Your Party, Palestine Action and Trans Rights protests

    What to expect in 2026?

    As the new year clicks into gear, Red Pepper editors look back on the surprises and under the radar moments of 2025 – and share predictions and hopes for 2026

  • Two people in high-vis yellow vests are pasting up a billboard, which shows a Monopoly board subverted to critique Amazon

    Amazon and the cost of Christmas

    Amazon’s Black Friday-January Sales consumerism juggernaut is uniting campaigners. Robbie Gillett charts the corporation’s varied crimes – and explains the necessary response