A metal recycling plant is due to open on the polluted Southeast Side months after the same firm shut a metal scrapyard in a white, affluent part of town.
Trinity Colón grew up believing everyone…
Fed up with "empty promises" from world leaders, a dozen youth activists on Wednesday demanded newly sworn-in President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris take swift and bold climate action…
World leaders will meet for Climate Adaptation Summit to consider how to adapt to extreme weather.
More than 1 million young people around the world have urged governments to prioritise measures to…
Greta Thunberg calls for urgent action to address the climate and ecological crisis.
She reminds the world of the promises made to children and grandchildren — a promise they expect to be kept.
The…
There are parallels and overlaps between climate justice and racial justice, as well as many lessons the climate movement can learn from this global moment of reckoning.
A new film being launched in advance of the Thimphu Ambition Summit underlines how the least developed countries are leading the way when it comes to climate action.
Young people from 140 countries presented policies to UK climate action champion.
Young people from 140 countries who attended an online “mock Cop26” climate summit have presented a treaty of 18…
Climate groups plan to camp in Washington DC in protest of Biden’s hires of key staff with connections to the oil and gas industry.
Progressive climate activists plan to occupy the Democratic…
Shubham Mani Tripathi, newspaper reporter, India: shot dead in June 2020 for exposing illegal sand mining. Maria Efigenia Vasquez Astudillo, radio reporter, Colombia: struck and killed by a…
Greta Thunberg has blasted politicians as hypocrites and international climate summits as empty words and greenwash. Until humanity admits it has failed to tackle the climate crisis and begins…
Fikile Ntshangase was involved in legal dispute over extension of coalmine in KwaZulu-Natal.
A South African environmental activist who opposed the extension of a coalmine near her home has been…
‘We are here to expose the climate destruction that Ineos is causing,’ activists say.
Extinction Rebellion activists have blockaded the gates of Ineos’s Grangemouth oil refinery, after government…
Licypriya Kangujam and Aarav Seth put in back of police van after demonstrating in New Delhi, which is often blanketed in thick smog.
A nine-year-old climate change activist in India was detained by…
European parliament votes to continue payments to farmers with no green conditions attached.
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish school strike pioneer and environmental activist, has accused MEPs of…
Amid the Global Week of Action for Debt Cancellation and one month ahead of the Finance in Common Summit, climate justice advocates on Monday urged public banks around the world to treat government…
”We know we’re not in line with the Paris Agreement, we never said we were. But we have to bring the public along slowly”.
Between the four of us, we have met quite a number of world leaders during…
After decades on the political periphery, the climate movement is entering the mainstream in 2020, with young leaders at the fore. The Sunrise Movement now includes more than 400 local groups …
Greta Thunberg leads protests as Covid rules restrict numbers compared with last year.
School pupils, youth activists and communities around the world have turned out for a day of climate strikes,…