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us/Opinion: We Owe Greta and the Youth More Than a Nobel Prize
By David Suzuki
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Many people, including me, expected Greta Thunberg to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali was deservedly awarded for ending more than 20 years of con...
uk/'We Believe It Is Our Moral Duty': 800 Scientists Sign Declaration Supporting Activists
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By Ruth Milka for Nation of Change Nearly 800 scientists have put their name to a declaration of support for all of the people taking part in almost daily actions to demand action on the climate c...
us/Climate Change and Other Frights: 13 Environmental Books to Scare You Into Action
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By John R. Platt, The Revelator. “Horror,” wrote novelist and critic Douglas E. Winter, “is not a genre. It is an emotion.” You know what else generates some horrifying emotions? Topics like clim...
uk/Lawyers Rebel Against 'Abject Failure' of Legal System to Prevent Climate Crisis
By Isabella Kaminski
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Climate activists have very visibly taken over central London once again, climbing onto planes and spraying government ministries with red paint. But some are taking a quieter, more legal, approach...
uk/Protestor Climbs Onto Plane as Over 1,000 Extinction Rebellion Activists Arrested Across London
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By Natalie Sauer and Chloe Farand for Climate Home News Paralympics medalist James Brown climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London City Airport, in a protest aimed at the site’s £480m ex...
uk/‘Nobody Talks About It, Not Even The Environmental Movement’: Meet the Campaigners Taking On Animal Farming
By Rich Collett-White
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In less than a year, climate protest movement Extinction Rebellion has become a household name, with its distinctive hourglass logo plastered around as a symbol of the urgent need for action.  But...
uk/Comment: Why Aggressive Media Attacks on Extinction Rebellion Should Concern Everyone
By Mike Small
on
Like in so much of public debate, the Prime Minister sets the tone. As a fortnight of peaceful protest started in London, Boris Johnson called the Extinction Rebellion protestors “importunate nose-...
uk/Over One Hundred Arrested as Extinction Rebellion Occupy Westminster
By Rich Collett-White
on
Extinction Rebellion protestors closed off sections of central London as the group launched two weeks of actions targeting the government's failure to sufficiently address the threat of climate cha...
us/New York City Climate Strike in Photos
By Julie Dermansky
on
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.   Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate acti...
uk/‘I’m Not Going To Watch The World Burn’: Thousands Of Climate Strikers Call For Climate Action In London
By Soila Apparicio
on
Millions of people across the world took to the streets in a global climate strike today to protest the climate crisis and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels.  In London’s Parliament Square,...

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us/Opinion: We Owe Greta and the Youth More Than a Nobel Prize
ByDavid Suzuki
on

Many people, including me, expected Greta Thunberg to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali was deservedly awarded for ending more than 20 years of con...
uk/'We Believe It Is Our Moral Duty': 800 Scientists Sign Declaration Supporting Activists
ByGuest
on

By Ruth Milka for Nation of Change Nearly 800 scientists have put their name to a declaration of support for all of the people taking part in almost daily actions to demand action on the climate c...
us/Climate Change and Other Frights: 13 Environmental Books to Scare You Into Action
ByGuest
on

By John R. Platt, The Revelator. “Horror,” wrote novelist and critic Douglas E. Winter, “is not a genre. It is an emotion.” You know what else generates some horrifying emotions? Topics like clim...
uk/Lawyers Rebel Against 'Abject Failure' of Legal System to Prevent Climate Crisis
ByIsabella Kaminski
on

Climate activists have very visibly taken over central London once again, climbing onto planes and spraying government ministries with red paint. But some are taking a quieter, more legal, approach...
Series: Extinction Rebellion: Direct Action to Save the Planet from Climate Change
Series: Extinction Rebellion Activism
uk/Protestor Climbs Onto Plane as Over 1,000 Extinction Rebellion Activists Arrested Across London
ByGuest
on

By Natalie Sauer and Chloe Farand for Climate Home News Paralympics medalist James Brown climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London City Airport, in a protest aimed at the site’s £480m ex...
uk/‘Nobody Talks About It, Not Even The Environmental Movement’: Meet the Campaigners Taking On Animal Farming
ByRich Collett-White
on

In less than a year, climate protest movement Extinction Rebellion has become a household name, with its distinctive hourglass logo plastered around as a symbol of the urgent need for action.  But...
Series: Extinction Rebellion: Direct Action to Save the Planet from Climate Change
Series: Extinction Rebellion Activism
Opinion
uk/Comment: Why Aggressive Media Attacks on Extinction Rebellion Should Concern Everyone
ByMike Small
on

Like in so much of public debate, the Prime Minister sets the tone. As a fortnight of peaceful protest started in London, Boris Johnson called the Extinction Rebellion protestors “importunate nose-...
Series: Extinction Rebellion: Direct Action to Save the Planet from Climate Change
Series: Extinction Rebellion Activism
uk/Over One Hundred Arrested as Extinction Rebellion Occupy Westminster
ByRich Collett-White
on

Extinction Rebellion protestors closed off sections of central London as the group launched two weeks of actions targeting the government's failure to sufficiently address the threat of climate cha...
Series: Extinction Rebellion: Direct Action to Save the Planet from Climate Change
Series: Extinction Rebellion Activism
us/New York City Climate Strike in Photos
ByJulie Dermansky
on

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.   Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate acti...
uk/‘I’m Not Going To Watch The World Burn’: Thousands Of Climate Strikers Call For Climate Action In London
BySoila Apparicio
on

Millions of people across the world took to the streets in a global climate strike today to protest the climate crisis and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels.  In London’s Parliament Square,...

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