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FILE - Russian servicemen guard an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station,

As the devastation of climate change makes the need to decarbonise clearer by the day, countries face the question of what to do with their old fossil fuel infrastructure. While some environmental activists have taken to sabotaging the carbon economy on the back of its emissions in the Global North,…

In traditional Tory style, it has been a good few days to bury bad news. The death of the Queen has rightly overshadowed every aspect of British life. But it has also shifted the attention away from some of the more worrying aspects of new Prime Mi

Energy companies have announced hikes in their prices as the winter months approach

The Canadian government has used Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the removal of Russian natural gas exports to justify increasing natural gas production in Canada. Much of the necessary infrastructure for producing and transporting this liquefied natural gas (LNG) would, however, take years to develop, locking Canada into an emissions…

Memories of postwar squalor revived by Vladimir Putin’s shutting down of Nord Stream 1 pipeline

The last operating reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been shut down to reduce the threat of a radiation disaster amid the continuing fighting

Liz Truss’s government faces ‘even more’ difficult position in winter 2023 without plan to fix leaky homes

Big energy companies clocked huge profits in the first half of this year, making record windfall gains which governments have tried to rein in  

The plant "is completely stopped" after the number 6 power unit from the grid is disconnected at 3:41am local time on Sunday, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy having called for the surrounding area to be demilitarised.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday confirmed Ukrainian troops had recaptured the strategic city of Izyum in the eastern part of the country from Russian forces as part of a large-scale counter-offensive. Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin had discussed the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant,…