Matthew is global investigations editor at DeSmog, leading coverage of the global climate crisis, energy politics, and the struggles for environmental justice through an international lens. He has previously worked at Reuters and the Financial Times, and writes the Resonant World newsletter exploring connections between the climate crisis and collective trauma.
Document warning that civilisation could prove a "fragile thing" is used to bolster District of Columbia lawsuit against Big Oil.
Newly discovered documents from the 1970s and early โ80s show that Shell knew more about the "greenhouse effect" than it let on in public.
Texas community fights to save its coastline as the developers of Rio Grande LNG reassure investors over climate impact.
US and Mexican activists fighting new oil and gas projects said they had to give a basic lesson on the harm caused by fracking during meetings with financiers in London.
Practices for helping large groups of people integrate traumatic histories could inform more effective action.
Draft standards drawn up by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market aim to tighten up a notoriously opaque sector.
Independent documentary opens a window into the dilemmas confronting social movements seeking transformative action on climate change.
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