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Fossil fuels

  • Flares burn off methane and other hydrocarbons at an oil and gas facility in Texas

    Texas comptroller adds NatWest to list of companies ‘boycotting’ fossil fuel firms

  • Smoke and flame from a wildfire rise against the night sky

    Survivors of climate disasters demand US inquiry into big oil’s ‘climate crimes’

  • Graham Readfearn

    Temperature Check
    Fallout from Woodside’s birthday bash shows Australia is far from united in climate fight

    Graham Readfearn
  • A view of a Commonwealth Bank building facade

    Commonwealth Bank to stop financing fossil fuel companies that don’t comply with Paris climate goals

  • Donald Trump<br>President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks about American energy production during a visit to the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Midland, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    ‘The dumbest climate conversation of all time’: experts on the Musk-Trump interview

  • A flare burns natural gas at an oil well

    Project Syndicate economists
    Trump would pull out of Paris climate treaty again – and Harris faces tough choices

    Barry Eichengreen
  • Bucket wheel dumping material at coal mine in Newcastle

    Australian fossil fuel exports ranked second only to Russia for climate damage with ‘no plan’ for reduction

  • Mark Rylance wears a pork pie had and looks to camera with a serious expression

    Mark Rylance among actors calling on Old Vic to cut links with fossil fuel investor

  • man arrested by NYPD

    Cello-playing climate activist arrested at New York Citibank protest as crackdown escalates

    Second activist also arrested during ‘summer of heat’ protest against second largest financier of fossil fuels
  • Fire illuminates smoke rising above a nighttime horizon of trees on a lake

    Wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland fuelled ‘by climate disruption’

    Devastation in Brazil wetlands was made at least four times more likely by fossil fuel use and deforestation, scientists say
  • People wearing masks amid smog.

    ‘Massive disinformation campaign’ is slowing global transition to green energy

    UN says a global ‘backlash’ against climate action is being stoked by fossil fuel companies
  • An open-cut coalmine

    Investors push Glencore to scrap spin-off of heavily polluting coal division

    More than 95% of investors urged commodities firm to keep highly profitable fossil fuel arm to help maximise shareholder cash
  • Anthony Albanese and the Labor frontbench during question time

    Companies behind Pep11 ask court to force Albanese government decision on NSW gas project

    The development, planned to be offshore from Sydney to Newcastle, was vetoed by Scott Morrison when resources minister
  • Paul Brown with his solar panels

    What I've learnt about green living ...
    ‘I turned into a solar nerd’: money and fun were the unexpected benefits of installing panels

    Our former environment correspondent had solar panels installed in 2010 and later added a heat pump. He’s totted up the energy generated and cash saved over the years
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    Finally! Good news from a coral reef

    It’s not all troubled waters
  • Man in red jumper polishes back of red car

    UK carmakers say they may miss government targets on EV sales

    Industry downgrades forecast for sales of battery vehicles after 18.8% rise in July on a year earlier
  • An aerial view of Scott Reef, which sits over the underwater Browse gas basin.

    EPA deals ‘major blow’ to Woodside’s multibillion-dollar gas drilling plan at Browse basin

    Scientists flagged risks to migrating whales, a beach where endangered turtles make nests and potential oil spill destroying a pristine environment
  • workers in white hazmat suits and reflective vests clean up a beach

    Big oil uncovered
    Harris is ‘perfect person’ to prosecute big oil, climate advocates say

    Environmentalists want DoJ to hold fossil fuel firms accountable and for presumptive nominee to lead charge
  • Shell logo of a yellow scallop-style shell with red borders

    Shell’s half-year profits climb to £10.9bn after focusing on fossil fuels

    Results anger climate campaigners as company grows gas business and pulls back on low-carbon energy investment

July 2024

  • Spectators cool off under water misters in front of the Eiffel Tower

    Extreme ‘heat dome’ hitting Olympics ‘impossible’ without global heating

    Scorching temperatures in Mediterranean countries and north Africa already causing increase in premature deaths
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