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Pesticide producers have a long history of lobbying against environmental regulations. Now, they're using power and influence to manipulate legitimate climate strategies for their own ends. → Read More
This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database , where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. → Read More
By Mat Hope, DeSmog, and Eduardo Robaina, La Marea/Climática. Lee en español en Climática. → Read More
Extinction Rebellion and the global school strikes led by Greta Thunberg have ensured climate activism hit the headlines throughout 2019. But is any of this really new? Or is it just the same old people with fancy new logos? → Read More
Boris Johnson will be the UK’s next Prime Minister. While most of the chatter has been around what that means for Brexit, rather less attention has been paid to what it means for that other great global challenge — climate change. → Read More
How did Nigel Lawson become big in Spain? With a little help from his powerful friends, of course. Spain’s former Prime Minister José María Aznar has actively promoted the work of climate science deniers including former UK chancellor Lawson through a thinktank based just behind Madrid’s Ritz hotel, an investigation by La Marea’s Climatica, DeSmog’s Spanish-language partner, reveals. → Read More
A network of lobbyists, politicians and campaign groups is pushing the UK towards a hard-Brexit, with the aim of axing environmental protection in the name of free-market ideology. → Read More
The Brexit Party has swept to victory in the UK’s European Parliament elections, meaning a new large group of climate science deniers will soon be walking the corridors of Brussels and Strasbourg. → Read More
Documents reveal how an industry group influenced the process behind U.N. climate assessments for decades. → Read More
Polly Higgins is a woman on the hunt. And you get the sense that, after decades of working towards holding powerful polluters to account, her prey may finally be in sight. → Read More
Fossil fuel companies have a long history of adopting public relations strategies straight from the tobacco industry's playbook. But a new analysis shows the two industries’ relationship goes much deeper — right down to funding the same organisations to do their dirty work. → Read More
Correction 11 February 2019: This article was amended to correct the statistics on populist parties and political polarisation. The headline was also amended. → Read More
The annual UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland, are drawing to a close. But over the conference’s two weeks, major polluters have been given the platform to promote a climate-friendly image at more than 30 events, new analysis by NGO Climate Tracker reveals. → Read More
What do Adidas, Hilton hotels, and the World Surfing League all have in common? → Read More
The UK’s premier climate science denial campaign group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), received hundreds of thousands of dollars of US donations in 2017, recently published tax returns show. → Read More
Shale gas exploration company Cuadrilla has breached environmental permits multiple times and failed to disclose full details of technical issues at its Lancashire site, a DeSmog UK investigation has found. → Read More
The scientists are clear: “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” are needed if the humans are going to prevent the world warming by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. → Read More
A major new coal development in Wales has been rejected, once and for all, by the UK’s Planning Inspectorate. → Read More
Climate science denial campaign group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has apparently been left with a hole in its finances after a major donor did not renew its funding. → Read More
High quality investigative journalism is scarce, climate change is largely under-reported, and the mainstream media has largely abandoned efforts to do either. → Read More