External articles by Nafeez M Ahmed

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

At the root of Egyptian rage is a deepening resource crisis

How Resource Shortages Sparked Egypt's Months-Long Crisis

The country has battled water shortages, rising food prices, and declining oil production, and it's fueling the current conflict

Seven facts you need to know about the Arctic methane timebomb

Dismissals of catastrophic methane danger ignore robust science in favour of outdated mythology of climate safety

Will climate change trigger endless war?

If we don't change prevailing business-as-usual political economies, probably - but we can still say 'no' and mean it

Arctic methane catastrophe scenario is based on new empirical observations

Critics of new Nature paper on costs of Arctic warming ignore latest science on permafrost methane at everyone's peril

Year 2050: is the Royal Baby destined to be a radical ecowarrior?

The Duke and Duchess' little Prince will grow up on a planet that might be unrecognisable by adulthood, lest we change course

Arctic methane catastrophe scenario is based on new empirical observations

Critics of new Nature paper on costs of Arctic warming ignore latest science on permafrost methane at everyone's peril.....

Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe – scientist

Professor Peter Wadhams, co-author of new Nature paper on costs of Arctic warming, explains the danger of inaction

Peak oil lives, but will kill the economy

Hype around peak oil's demise is premature, though you wouldn't know that if you believed BBC misrepresentations

Economists forecast the end of growth

Unlimited GDP growth is over as we enter a new age of resource scarcity - we must transition to a new economy

James Hansen: Fossil fuel addiction could trigger runaway global warming

Without full decarbonisation by 2030, our global emissions pathway guarantees new era of catastrophic climate change