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As today’s climate emergency makes this ever more vital, we cover the uneven impact of climate change on land and communities in the Global South, and how movements for degrowth and sustainable living can push governments and corporations to act beyond greenwash and denialism.

As today’s climate emergency makes this ever more vital, we cover the uneven impact of climate change on land and communities in the Global South, and how movements for degrowth and sustainable living can push governments and corporations to act beyond greenwash and denialism.

  • Sigma Lithium’s open-pit mining in Araçuai leaves a barren landscape

    Hard truths in Brazil’s Lithium Valley

    Inhabitants of regions like Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley are confronting the global forces turning their lands into sacrifice zones for the ‘green transition’. By Alex Shankland, Anabel Marín, Bruna Viana De Freitas and Fabiana Soares Leme

  • An illustration in pastel colours shows a workman with a hammer against an industrial backdrop

    Transition troubles at the coalface

    Forty years on from the miners’ strike, Britain’s transition away from coal highlights the complex challenges of decarbonisation, write Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson

  • A champagne cork popping turns into a graph line showing recession

    Key words: Degrowth

    Filka Sekulova explains one of the concepts at the heart of climate and social justice activism

  • A photo taken from a hill showing the Bibby Stockholm, a large, rectangular barge repurposed to house migrants and asylum seekers in the UK

    Against climate fascism

    Alex Roberts examines the multiple ways that the far right has responded to the climate crisis

  • A group of maching protesters with a red banner reading 'Colletivo di Fabbrica: Lavoratori GKN Firenze'

    The GKN workers’ fight continues

    The struggle for an ecological transition from below by Florence’s ex-GKN workers is alive, writes Lorezno Fe

  • Brown flood water submerges cars and a tractor surrounded by palm trees

    There is no climate justice without migration justice

    The battle to tackle the climate crisis must also defend people’s right to move and their right to stay, argues Nick Cullen

  • An extraction platform at sea with text that reads: Gaza Marine Palestinian Gas Field

    Environmental devastation and the war on Palestine

    Samira Homerang Saunders documents the ecocide wrought by Israel, continuing a long, deadly legacy of modern warfare

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