Every few years the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases an assessment, which consists of several reports prepared by three working groups. Working Group I focuses on the scientific evidence for climate change; Working Group II on the impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities; and Working Group III on mitigation, what we can do about it […]
Nina Lakhani
Nina Lakhani has reported from more than a dozen countries including six years investigating health scandals, deaths in custody and honor-based violence for The Independent newspapers in London and seven years freelancing in Mexico and Central America covering state-sponsored repression, consequences of the war on drugs, gender-based violence and the battle for natural resources. Most recently she spent six years as senior climate and environmental justice reporter for the Guardian based in New York covering the intersection between structural racism and poverty with extreme weather events, the climate impact of war, and the criminalization of defenders, as well unequal access to water, food and clean air across the US. She is the author of Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender's Battle for the Planet which has been translated into Spanish, French and Italian, and is a contributor to the 2025 anthology Gaza: the Story of a Genocide (chapter: Ecocide in Gaza). Before journalism she was a mental health nurse, and a proponent of trauma informed reporting. She is based in Mexico City.
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The Real Free Speech Threat
Around the world, climate and other environmental protestors are being harassed, attacked, and arrested at an increasing rate. Laws are being passed that levy life-altering prison sentences and fines on protestors arrested near anything deemed “critical infrastructure,” which is defined so broadly it’s hard to find a public space that wouldn’t be near it anymore. […]
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New Oil Colonialism
For decades now, the fossil fuel industry has told the same story: Oil equals development and prosperity. Access. Equality. Stability. A better quality of life. As the world’s fossil fuel companies race to tap the last of the planet’s oil reserves we have a chance to examine that promise up close, in real time. What […]