Why did fossil fuels win over water power in the industrial revolution? 🌍 This video explores how capitalism’s need for labor control, not cost or efficiency, drove the adoption of steam power. A ...

It's increasingly common to hear from experts and the general public that the global shift away from fossil fuels is glacially slow, or even nonexistent.

For the last few years, climate and energy policymakers have convinced themselves the world was inexorably moving away from ...

At Cop30, Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group will seek support so that it can launch a new agreement intended to bring together ...

While the world rightly views the climate crisis as the most urgent threat posed by our dependence on oil, coal and gas, there’s another, often overlooked consequence: Fossil fuels have long driven ...

The tipping point between renewable energy and fossil fuels has been reached, says a new United Nations (UN) report. The UN Secretary-General Antônio Guterres said that we are entering a renewable era ...

Modern ‘sustainable’ innovations in architecture are failing to slow climate change,  but revisiting ancient knowledge and techniques found in traditional architecture could offer better solutions.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Oil and gas companies see plastics as a “plan B” for their industry amid the ...

DURHAM, N.C.— More than 150 environmental, social justice, faith and youth organizations and businesses from across the country called on North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein to confront Duke Energy Corp.’s ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Renewable energy doesn't need subsidies to compete with fossil fuels when it comes to building new power plants. That's a key takeaway in Lazard's annual report on electricity generation ...