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Colourful 3-panel illustration with factories on the left. The central panel is a scene in a fashion factory, with arounud 10 women working on sewing machines, wearing colourful clothes and some wearing facemasks. The final panel on the right is a piles of colourful clothing in landfill piles, with a yellow tractor pouring more clothes on to the piles.

Climate change

How fast fashion fuels climate change, plastic pollution and violence

The 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse sparked a call for change in the global fashion industry. But 10 years on, more than 100 billion clothes a year are made – mostly from oil turned into polyester – by people working in dangerous conditions. This is fast fashion's impact on people and the planet.

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson April 3, 2023

Three people herding a flock of sheep away from an advancing wildfire in Turkey, the sky filled with smoke.

Climate change

This is what climate breakdown looks like for people around the world

Our climate is breaking down. Rising temperatures threaten our livelihoods, water, food and health. These photos show how high the stakes are.

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson, Angela Glienicke November 12, 2021

Fishing

REVEALED – Tonnes of shark fins exported from Britain every year

Unearthed investigation reveals that Britain has exported over 50 tonnes of shark fins worth hundreds of thousands of pounds in the past two years despite widespread concerns that this controversial global trade is putting many shark species at risk

by Patrick Fuller July 29, 2019

Climate change

Priorities for tackling climate change and ending poverty in the Energy Bill

A joint civil society statement

May 10, 2022

A video presenter (dark curly hair, light brown skin, black and white top) sits at a table decorated with models of a wind turbine and Greenpeace ship. She smiles into the camera. Overlaid text reads 'Is climate change racist?'

Air pollution

WATCH: Is climate change racist?

Climate change can't be racist...can it?

by Aakash Naik, Aiyan Maharasingam October 1, 2021