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- Atomfall might have been an apocalyptic classic if it wasn’t for all the walking | Dominik Diamond Fri, 25 Apr 25, 7:00pmThe Lake District after the 1957 Windscale nuclear disaster is a great setting for a game – and gorgeously rendered. That doesn’t mean I want to endlessly keep traversing it
- Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow Thu, 10 Apr 25, 5:00pmA new progressivism, one that embraces construction over obstruction, must find new allegories to think about technology and the future
- The Shetland Way by Marianne Brown review – a daughter’s journey to the heart of the climate crisis Mon, 13 Jan 25, 3:00amAn environmental writer returns to her father’s home for his funeral in a family memoir that becomes an examination of Shetland’s crucial role in the energy landscape
- A Thousand Fires review – mesmerising study of Myanmar’s homemade oil wells Mon, 2 Dec 24, 6:00pmDocumentary shows the gruelling labour put in by a married couple wringing out drops of black gold as their son looks for a different living
- London’s Science Museum forced to cut ties with oil giant – and faces pressure over other sponsors Sat, 13 Jul 24, 10:28pmCampaigners welcome ‘seismic shift’ and urge museum bosses to review links with other fossil fuel sponsors
- Baillie Gifford will no longer sponsor Borders and Cheltenham literature festivals Wed, 5 Jun 24, 10:27pmInvestment management firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel sector put sponsorship deals under pressure
- Borders and Cheltenham literature festivals end ties with Baillie Gifford Wed, 5 Jun 24, 10:27pmInvestment management firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel sector put sponsorship deals under pressure
- Is Science Museum’s green power gallery tainted by fossil-fuel cash? Sat, 23 Mar 24, 11:00pmMuseum’s funding by Indian energy group sparks controversy – with activists calling for boycott of ‘tainted’ partnership but others in full support
- ‘A picture of hell’: inside the UK’s nuclear reactors – in pictures Wed, 21 Feb 24, 6:00pmArmed with a Geiger counter, Michael Collins was given access to multiple power stations across the UK – he found them tranquil, beautiful and sinister
- National Trust fits ‘pioneering’ ground source heat pump at Kingston Lacy Wed, 17 Jan 24, 5:00pmNew system should help preserve art collection at Dorset country mansion by providing a steady, gentle heat
- Britain’s 45 remaining cooling towers are architectural gems. Let’s save them Mon, 15 Jan 24, 2:00amCooling towers are some of the most majestic structures in Britain – form and function in perfect harmony – yet exempt from listed status. Even as they become redundant, those that remain deserve to be preserved as much...
- I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong Tue, 2 Jan 24, 6:00pmIn an extract from her book Not the End of the World, data scientist Hannah Ritchie explains how her work taught her that there are more reasons for hope than despair about climate change – and why a truly sustainable world...
- A Theory of Everyone by Michael Muthukrishna review – the laws of life Wed, 27 Sep 23, 6:00pmIs it possible – or even desirable – to study people with the scientific detachment of a physicist studying matter?
- Romancing the 60s on London’s Goodge Street | Brief letters Tue, 29 Aug 23, 1:14amDonovan’s Sunny Goodge Street | Seeds for success | Ethical savings | Wilko workers
- ‘It’s not just Appalachia’s problem’: imagining a future without coal Wed, 9 Aug 23, 1:10amThe rhapsodic film King Coal blurs the lines of documentary and memorializes the coal culture that has shaped Appalachia