Commodities

Brent crude price rises after Saudi Arabia agrees to cut oil output

Price gained more than 2% on Monday morning to touch one-month high of $78.73

Alex Lawson

05, Jun, 2023 @10:07 AM

Opec+ to extend cuts in oil output into 2024 as prices flag

Oil cartel members reportedly agree to reduce output by a further 1.4m barrels, with oversupply a concern

Jess Clark and agencies

04, Jun, 2023 @5:47 PM

Diesel prices fell by nearly 12p a litre in UK in May, figures show

Despite record reduction RAC says cut should have been even greater to fully reflect changes in market

Guardian staff and agency

03, Jun, 2023 @8:29 AM

A look at some of the corporations that dominate the Amazon

From mining to cattle ranching and soya farming, some of the world’s largest companies exploit the region, though many also claim to be giving something back

Bibi van der Zee, Patrick Greenfield and Jonathan Watts

02, Jun, 2023 @12:17 PM

Ofgem’s energy price cap cut: how the changes affect you

What are the likely savings and what help is still available for bills – all you need to know about Ofgem’s move

Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

25, May, 2023 @11:26 AM

Invasion of Ukraine ‘has fuelled funding boom for clean energy’

International Energy Agency says investment will hit $1.7tn this year, well ahead of fossil fuels

Jillian Ambrose

25, May, 2023 @5:00 AM

Shell AGM disrupted by protests as investors reject new emissions targets

Bosses defend oil company against accusations it is not switching away from fossil fuels quickly enough

Jasper Jolly

23, May, 2023 @2:40 PM

‘We give our blood so they live comfortably’: Sri Lanka’s tea pickers say they go hungry and live in squalor

Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make their children work

Jeevan Ravindran in Maskeliya

23, May, 2023 @5:00 AM

Cocoa planting is destroying protected forests in west Africa, study finds

Global trade in chocolate, worth more than $1tn a year, is leading to widespread deforestation in Ivory Coast and Ghana

Damien Gayle

22, May, 2023 @5:03 PM

Killers of the Flower Moon review – Scorsese’s remarkable epic about the bloody birth of America

Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone star in this macabre western about serial murders among the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma, which reflects the erasure of Native Americans from the US

Peter Bradshaw

20, May, 2023 @7:45 PM