Nafeez M Ahmed

The global Transition tipping point has arrived - vive la révolution

A new post-carbon era dawns as the old fossil fuel system dies. It's time to step up

Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?

Natural and social scientists develop new model of how 'perfect storm' of crises could unravel global system

Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry

Resource scarcity, competition to dominate Eurasian energy corridors, are behind Russian militarism and US interference

Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels

From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest is in full swing as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon reality

Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist

From North America to Europe, the 'national security' apparatus is being bought off by Big Oil to rout peaceful activism

US Army colonel: world is sleepwalking to a global energy crisis

Senior figures from industry, military and politics explore risks of financial chaos, oil depletion and climate catastrophe

Former BP geologist: peak oil is here and it will 'break economies'

Industry expert warns of grim future of 'recession' driven 'resource wars' at University College London lecture

Former government adviser believes warnings of extremist attacks were ignored

Concerns about jihadist action against British soldiers 'fell on deaf ears,' says Jahan Mahmood

Dramatic decline in industrial agriculture could herald 'peak food'

Most conventional yield projection models are oblivious to the real world say US researchers

'Whole world' at risk from simultaneous droughts, famines, epidemics: scientists

Research published by US National Academy of Sciences warns climate change impacts could be worse than thought

UK’s flawed counter-terrorism strategy

Insiders across government reveal intelligence gathering focus is ‘alienating communities’ and ‘ignoring extremism’

US Navy predicts summer ice free Arctic by 2016

Is conventional modelling out of pace with speed and abruptness of global warming?

The war on democracy

How corporations and spy agencies use "security" to defend profiteering and crush activism

Imminent peak oil could burst US, global economic bubble - study

Major industrial sectors are at risk without a swift transition to a more resilient, post-carbon economy

Russell Brand takes on the crisis of civilisation. But what now?

Celebrity comedian's critics miss the point on urgent need for 'revolution' to avert planetary extinction - yet question is still how

Tory anti-environment advocacy protects corporate, not public, interests

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg's Telegraph screed supports Cameron's contempt for green policies at our expense

How the World Health Organisation covered up Iraq's nuclear nightmare

Ex-UN, WHO officials reveal political interference to suppress scientific evidence of postwar environmental health catastrophe

Special report: fixing intelligence on Syria?

The politicians are wrong - 100% renewable energy is possible

If Miliband wants to beat the Big Six and deliver energy price freeze promise, he must fix his party's broken policies first

The crisis of civilisation is an unprecedented opportunity

Converging climate, energy, and economic crises signal the potential to transition to a prosperous post-carbon era

Syria: Deciphering the Propaganda War over the Ghouta Massacre

The politicised debate over the realities of last month's chemical attack in Ghouta is a further manifestation of a propaganda war - being fought on all sides and for competing national and geopolitical interests - that shows scant regard for the human cost of the conflict

Climate change to have double impact - study

New research shows traditional IPCC models could be underestimating global warming due to feedbacks

Why the jury's still out on the risk of Arctic methane catastrophe

Can scientists overcome huge uncertainties to pin down how close, or far, we might be to a tipping point?

Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concern

Massacres of civilians are being exploited for narrow geopolitical competition to control Mideast oil, gas pipelines