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“Seas are rising: So are we”: Thousands of Kids Protest in UK Over Climate

Thousands of schoolchildren and young adults across the UK took part in a #YouthStrike4Climate today in at least 60 towns and cities from the far south west in Cornwall, to the far north in Scotland and over in Northern Ireland, too.

Shell faces landmark legal action over human rights and climate: “It’s time to bring an end to decades of impunity”

Some twenty four years after Saro-Wiwa’s death, along with eight of his colleagues, who were illegally murdered by the Nigerian Government for their campaign against Shell, a Dutch court today heard from the widows of those hung.

Wet’suwet’en First Nations “Concerned for Their Safety” Over Pipeline Protest

"We are concerned for the safety of our residents and our dogs"

Oz: Landmark Legal Ruling Rejects Coal Mine on Climate Grounds

"This landmark decision sends a clear message to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot continue to expand if we are serious about tackling climate change."

Trump erases climate change from SOTU “but you can’t erase a global crisis”

Trump "celebrated the US being the world's No. 1 oil and gas producer. And the house cheered - they cheered for the knowing destabilization of the planet. Don't call them deniers, they are arsonists."

John Bolton: “Big difference” if “US oil companies invest in and produce oil in Venezuela”

What is being forgotten in the fight between Maduro and Guaido is that whoever wins, the impetus on the victor will be on maximising output from the country’s oil reserves to help alleviate the country's crippling economic problems. Because much of this is heavy oil, it is extremely carbon intensive to produce. And that can only be bad news for the climate.

Standing Rock Veterans Vow to Defeat Trump’s Wall

Veterans of the bitter fight at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access pipeline have now vowed to fight Trump’s highly controversial border wall.

“Growing evidence that a warming Arctic drives the polar vortex”

As the Arctic warms due to global warming, it is weakening the polar jet stream which normally keeps the cold air over the Arctic, and therefore it moves south over the continental US.

“Tell me Donald. Exactly how much is a human life being sold for?”

Two years into his Presidency, the fullblown cost of Donald Trump’s assault on human health, the environment and on science is becoming brutally and painfully clear.

“Shovel Ready” Renewables Offers to Fill Nuclear Hole in UK Energy Policy

As yet another British nuclear plant is scrapped, the renewables industry says it is ready to come to the rescue to help the UK deliver low carbon energy.