The existential question for climate activists: have disruption tactics stopped working?
As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions
Inside the campaign at COP27 to free Egypt’s most famous political prisoner
What happened when Sanaa Seif tried to shame the authorities into releasing her brother?
Meet the “Inactivists”, Tangling Up the Climate Crisis in Culture Wars
As climate science has gone mainstream, outright denialism has been pushed to the fringes. Now a new tactic of dismissing green policies as elitist is on the rise, and has zoned in on a bitter row over a disused airport in Kent
Exodus: A Sea and Its People Evaporate
In Karakalpakstan, an obscure corner of central Asia where the waters of the Aral Sea have turned to desert, Jack Shenker finds a nation fleeing ecological disaster and authoritarian rule
Repopulating an Antique Land: Egypt’s Forbidding Western Desert
One hundred years ago, the British explorer WJ Harding King tried and failed to cross Egypt’s myth-laden Western Desert. Jack Shenker follows his footsteps into a once-isolated world on the cusp of transformation.
Death of the Nile: Egypt’s Climate Change Crisis
The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe.