L-R: Theresa Higginson, George Simonson, Gaie Delap, Paul Sousek and Paul Bell, who have been jailed, and Daniel Johnson, who received a suspended sentence. Photograph: Just Stop Oil
Five supporters…
A wave of student occupations has shut down schools and universities across Europe as part of a renewed youth protest campaign against inaction on climate breakdown. Twenty-two schools and…
Ben Okri, Simon Schama, Helen Pankhurst and AL Kennedy among those saying they ‘stand with’ protesters
Ben Okri, Simon Schama, Helen Pankhurst and AL Kennedy are among more than 100 writers who…
Rapporteur Tendayi Achiume says projects are at expense of marginalised groups and Indigenous peoples
The world’s reliance on hi-tech capitalist solutions to the climate and ecological crises is…
Commitment to ‘civil resistance’ comes after Extinction Rebellion said it would prioritise ‘relationships over roadblocks’
Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil have doubled down on their commitment…
At least eight countries experience record high temperatures of ‘almost unheard of’ heat, say meteorologists
Weather records have been falling across Europe at a disconcerting rate in the last…
Climate activists defiant as public order bill aims to curtail civil disobedience tactics
UK climate activists have vowed to continue their disruptive protests until the government imposes the…
Protesters then glue themselves to wall beneath painting at National Gallery in London
Activists from Just Stop Oil have thrown tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National…
Billboards hijacked across Europe to highlight role of airline emissions in climate crisis
As Kate, 23, walked out of Seven Sisters station, in Tottenham, north London, she noticed an airline…
Fridays for Future ‘strikes’ in about 450 places demanded rich countries pay for damage from global heating
Thousands of young people have staged a coordinated “global climate strike” across Asia,…
BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies spend $750m a year burnishing climate credentials but only 12% of capital on low-carbon development
Big oil and gas companies are spending tens of…
An article in the Nature Climate Change journal argues that non-violent direct action taken by experts is effective
Scientists should commit acts of civil disobedience to show the public how…
Environmental protesters have glued themselves to the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera which is on display at an art gallery in Florence.
People of colour are four times more likely to live in areas at high risk from heatwaves in the UK as the climate heats up, according to experts.
Researchers at the University of Manchester and…
Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil coalition have glued themselves to a 500-year-old depiction of The Last Supper in London’s Royal Academy, the fifth time in a week that it has disrupted a major…
Environmental law organization ClientEarth brings action and urges other shareholders to join.
The directors of Shell are being sued for failing to properly prepare the multinational oil and gas…
Businesses blamed for rise of toxic hotspots hitting poor communities hardest
A UN expert has warned of the creation of pollution “sacrifice zones” across the world, where tens of millions of people…
A UN expert has warned of the creation of pollution “sacrifice zones” across the world, where tens of millions of people are suffering strokes, cancers, respiratory problems and heart disease as a…
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