Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on their livesEarly on in The Fisherman and the Banker, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gathered around him: “We are not formally educated. We don’t have formal qualifications. Our qualifications...

Tests show adding just 10% of waste to a wood burner indoors can double its particle pollutionIt may be tempting to add cardboard, plastic, old clothing and other waste to your home fire to keep warm and save money. But a study has shown that burning waste indoors has serious consequences for air pollution and especially for the amount of cancer-causing...

The last coal-fired power station is closed, but what about the Drax station still burning trees, asks Donald Simpson. Also letter from Jude McCarthyThe closure of our last coal-fired power station (End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down, 30 September) would be more impressive if we weren’t burning trees in the old Drax power...

Colombian environment minister Susana Muhamad once worked for Shell. Now, as the country gears up to host the biodiversity Cop16, she is calling for a just transition away from fossil fuelsShe is one of the biggest opponents of fossil fuel on the world stage – but Susana Muhamad’s political career was sparked in the halls of an oil company. It began...

Event will push for greater transparency and aims to rank AI firms in terms of ability to meet climate goalsWorld leaders at the next AI summit will focus on the impact on the environment and jobs, including the possibility of ranking the greenest AI companies, it has been announced.Rating artificial intelligence companies in terms of their ecological...

Nuclear waste dump in Cumbria pleaded guilty to leaving data that could threaten national security exposed for four years, says regulatorSellafield will have to pay almost £400,000 after it pleaded guilty to criminal charges over years of cybersecurity failings at Britain’s most hazardous nuclear site.The vast nuclear waste dump in Cumbria left information...