The BBC nature presenter Chris Packham has joined hundreds of environmental activists in a mock funeral procession for nature to spotlight biodiversity loss in the…
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UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off
Dr Sarah Benn has long been concerned about the climate crisis, diligently recycling until she was “blue in the face”. But the rise of the…
View More UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off‘Stop insuring fossil fuel’: activists target London insurers in week of action
Traffic petered out on Gracechurch Street, in the heart of London’s financial district, as hundreds marched down the road, in step with samba drummers beating…
View More ‘Stop insuring fossil fuel’: activists target London insurers in week of actionMore than 1,500 arrested at Extinction Rebellion protest in The Hague
More than 1,500 people were arrested during a protest by the Extinction Rebellion climate group in The Hague on Saturday, Dutch police said. Activists blocked…
View More More than 1,500 arrested at Extinction Rebellion protest in The HagueFire and concrete: will France’s model of radical climate protest catch on?
In the UK, when climate activists want to block a road, they sit down on it. When their fellow activists in France want to do…
View More Fire and concrete: will France’s model of radical climate protest catch on?Chris Packham calls for ‘every last person who cares’ to join XR
The wildlife presenter Chris Packham has made a rallying call for “every last person who cares” about the planet to join Extinction Rebellion after thousands…
View More Chris Packham calls for ‘every last person who cares’ to join XRMcDonald’s offered Met police cheap burgers and free drinks during XR protests
McDonald’s restaurants offered the Metropolitan police cut-price burgers and free hot drinks during Extinction Rebellion protests – but senior officers warned staff not to “flaunt”…
View More McDonald’s offered Met police cheap burgers and free drinks during XR protestsClimate activists must target power structures, not the public | Letters
I am an environmental social scientist and climate activist. As Jack Shenker describes in his article (The existential question for climate activists: have disruption tactics…
View More Climate activists must target power structures, not the public | LettersExtinction Rebellion announces move away from disruptive tactics
The climate protest group Extinction Rebellion is shifting tactics from disruptions such as smashing windows and glueing themselves to public places in 2023, it has…
View More Extinction Rebellion announces move away from disruptive tactics‘We’ll be hated, but it will stir things up’: Insulate Britain on what happened next – and being right all along
Shortly before 8am on 13 September 2021, 92 people gathered in small groups at five junctions along the M25, the busy motorway that encircles most…
View More ‘We’ll be hated, but it will stir things up’: Insulate Britain on what happened next – and being right all along