‘Climate Emergency’: How Extinction Rebellion’s Language of Urgency is Shaping the Political Agenda
Read time: 6 minsAfter weeks of mass demonstration, Extinction Rebellion’s demand that the government “tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency”...
US Fracked Gas Imports to EU Could ‘Take World Far Beyond Safe Climate Limits’,...
Read time: 2 minsEnvironmental activists representing more than 200 organisations have called on the EU and the US to put an end to a...
Oil Companies Will Be Bad Investments Within Five Years, Predicts Survey of European Fund...
Read time: 6 minsEuropean fund managers are casting an increasingly skeptical eye towards the oil industry, concluding that the industry’s financial future looks grim,...
Comment: Climate Science Deniers Resort to Attacking Greta Because They’ve Lost the Argument
Read time: 5 minsOh, to be Greta. The queue of (mostly) middle aged men using their media platforms to attack her is now running...
Two Weeks of Extinction Rebellion — In Pictures
Read time: 2 minsFor a sunny fortnight in Spring 2019, you couldn’t scroll through a newsfeed without seeing the words “Extinction Rebellion”.
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‘People Are Listening Now’ — Extinction Rebellion’s 10 Days in the Spotlight
Read time: 6 minsHigh above Parliament Square, a small group of people swing from hammocks between the trees. They won't stay elevated for long.
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How Big Oil Tried (But Failed) to Capture the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
Read time: 10 minsA secretive fossil fuel lobby group undertook a decades-long campaign to undermine mainstream climate science while spending hundreds of thousands of...
Global Climate Coalition: Documents Reveal How Secretive Fossil Fuel Lobby Group Manipulated UN Climate...
Read time: 5 minsA fossil fuel–backed industry group was able to influence the process behind the United Nations climate assessments for decades, using lobbyists...
Whitehaven: The West Cumbrian Ex-Mining Community Where Coal is Making a Comeback
Read time: 13 minsWhitehaven is a small port town on the coast of Cumbria, where coal means both life and death.
It was death in 1947,...
Comment: Climate Deniers are Threatened by Extinction Rebellion Because It Challenges the Ideology on...
Read time: 6 minsThe Extinction Rebellion protest movement has grown in scale and impact in recent weeks, bringing energy and chaos to the streets as...
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