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Fossil fuels

  • Chaitanya Kumar

    This is what a fossil-fuel shock looks like. The UK must adapt its energy system – and quickly

    Chaitanya Kumar
    The Iran war will hit food prices, fuel costs and interest rates. But we could could turn this crisis to our advantage, says Chaitanya Kumar of the New Economics Foundation
  • A flare burns natural gas at an oil well

    Invisible plumes and ‘terrible pollution’: the reality of the US gas sites rated ‘grade A’

    Exclusive: Guardian investigation into reliability of methane certification issued by MiQ reveals weakness of voluntary model
  • FreePublicTransportpixkie

    First Dog on the Moon
    Albo will speak to Australians on TV tonight – this is never good

    It’s already scary and weird so why anyone thought it would help for the prime minister to address the nation I do not know
  • Lead image for Past/Present series about the oil crisis

    Past/Present
    Australia has weathered fuel crises before. What can we learn from previous oil price spikes?

    David Lee
    After the second world war, cheap oil was a foundation of global economic stability. That changed dramatically in 1973
  • Aerial view of a whale surfacing in the ocean with a plume of water shooting from its blowhole.

    ‘God squad’ waives endangered species law to allow US drilling in Gulf of Mexico

    Critics say exemption for fossil fuels exploits White House’s ‘self-made gas crisis’, and could doom the rare Rice’s whale

    • Australian climate and environment in focus
      ‘Not a fix’: the three questionable ideas politicians are pitching to solve Australia’s fuel crisis

    • Trump’s Iran war and drilling push show ‘dangerous volatility’ of fossil fuel era

    • More drilling in North Sea ‘not the answer’ for UK energy security, say former military leaders

  • A redundant oil platform moored in the Firth of Forth near Kirkcaldy, Fife.

    Focus on net zero policy is harming Britain

    Letters: Paul Marshall says calling for an end to fossil fuels is impractical, in response to church leaders’ criticisms of GB News’s stance on climate science
  • Electric vehicle charging station in Ingliston, Scotland

    How EVs could be part of answer to UK’s fuel reserve worries

    More use of two-way charging will earn money for owners and could avoid the need to expand North Sea oil drilling
  • Solar panels in Scotland

    There are solutions to Britain’s energy crisis

  • Man sitting on rock in front of a glacial lake, with glaciers in background

    Fossil fuel companies finally accept the climate crisis – just not their role in it

  • Smoke plume from fire at Port of Salalah oil storage tanks in Oman

    What does the Iran war mean for clean energy transition?

  • Nigel Farage stands at a podium in front of an audience some holding signs saying 'bills'

    Fears net zero is ‘next Brexit’ as oil crisis fuels political climate divide

  • aerial view of oil refinery with american flag in center

    US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

    US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
  • A street vendor in Manila turns on his portable charger-powered LED light to sell his goods as a customer looks at the display

    Philippines declares ‘national energy emergency’ and boosts coal power as Iran war grinds on

    President’s declaration allows officials to tackle fuel hoarding or profiteering, while energy secretary says country will lean more heavily on coal
  • Robert Habeck

    Like Putin, Trump is a megalomaniac. In Europe, we can shield ourselves, not look for rational motives

    Robert Habeck
    I had to deal with the energy shock in Germany after Putin invaded Ukraine. The solution now is the same: buy ourselves out of the fossil fuels trap, says Robert Habeck, former vice-Chancellor of Germany
  • Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson

    ‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds

    The report also recommends government do more to make tech companies liable for ‘psychosocial harms’
  • the sun rising behind the silhouette of a redundant oil platform moored in the Firth of Forth near Kirkcaldy, Scotland.

    Green energy boss backs more North Sea oil and gas production from existing sites

    GB Energy’s Jürgen Maier says production could bring economic benefits and give supply chains ‘time to transition’ to renewables
  • smoke billows from a refinery

    Texas residents feel homes shake miles away from oil refinery explosion

    Images and videos online showed large plume of smoke and flames billowing out from refinery, but no one was injured
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