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Climate summit: 'Adults must start acting likes adults'

Activists took advantage of Car-free Sunday to appeal to the incoming Commission to boost their green goals.

23/09/2019

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Paris climate change march ends with minor clashes and tear gas

French police fired tear gas and made over a hundred arrests in Paris on Saturday (September 21) as they dispersed "yellow vest" protesters attempting unauthorized rallies and black-masked demonstrators who disrupted a climate march

22/09/2019

World News

Climate targets need to be 'five times more ambitious': scientists

Scientists present new report on climate change effects ahead of UN summit.

22/09/2019

Switzerland

Like Iceland, Switzerland to hold 'funeral' for lost glacier

The Pizol "has lost so much substance that from a scientific perspective it is no longer a glacier."

22/09/2019

USA

Watch again: Greta Thunberg speaks at UN Youth Climate Summit

Swedish teenage activist is speaking a year since her solo protest inspired a global movement.

21/09/2019

World News

Global climate strikes in unexpected places | The Cube

From Kabul to Tuvalu, climate marches this Friday did not just take place in affluent western nations.

20/09/2019

Greece

Watch: Drought kills hundreds of fish in Greek lake

Hundreds of fish have washed up on the shores of a lake after drought caused a drop in the water level. The phenomenon is blamed on high temperatures and a lack of rainfall.

20/09/2019

World News

The best images from Europe's climate protests

Witty slogans, colourful costumes, drawings, performances: the pictures illustrate how protesters across the region deployed their creativity to raise awareness of the climate crisis.

20/09/2019

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Troops protect people in Afghan climate protest

Troops atop an armored personnel carrier and on foot, their rifles at the ready, protected about 100 of Kabul's young, who are worried that if war doesn't kill them, climate change will.

20/09/2019

United Kingdom

Watch back: Jeremy Corbyn speaks on climate crisis

Labour leader says the government will 'hear demands' of youth activists.

20/09/2019

World News

Where is climate action happening across the world and near you?

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20/09/2019

Norway

Watch: Norway's last miners fight for survival against climate policy

Norway's last coal mine, in the Arctic archipelago, is under threat of closure. It is situated in the northernmost town on Earth – which is also the fastest heating, thanks to climate change.

20/09/2019

World News

Climate change: Poll finds a majority think it's an emergency

At least three-quarters of the more than 1,000 respondents polled in each of the eight countries — Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the UK and US — think the world is facing a "climate emergency" which could soon become "extremely dangerous."

20/09/2019

Iceland

Scientists in Iceland fuse carbon dioxide into rock in a bid to combat

Iceland's glaciers are changing every year, so scientists are developing new ways to neutralize the harmful effects of carbon dioxide.

20/09/2019

Green News

Today we are on Global Climate Strike

Don't expect business as usual, we're taking a stand against climate change.

20/09/2019

Switzerland

Watch: Climate activists interrupt Swiss parliament & break into song

Activists interrupted a session of the Swiss Federal Assembly on Thursday to call for more action to tackle the climate crisis.

19/09/2019

World

Germany's Climate Cabinet meets ahead of protests and summit

Germany's so-called climate cabinet to meet on Friday to come up with concrete climate change legislation, to coincide with the call for a day of global climate strike.

19/09/2019

World

Green initiatives 'good for the economy', climate expert tells leaders

A climate change expert has said world governments must realise that green climate initiatives are actually good for the economy. Bob Ward, from the London School of Ecoomics’ Grantham Institute on Climate Change said the two aims need each other.

19/09/2019

World News

How summer 2019 hurt the Arctic, the frontline of climate change

Unprecedented wildfires, a record melt of the sea ice and some more extreme weather episodes have marked the 2019 summer season in the Arctic Circle. It was on a par or worse than the 2012 record melt and heat levels, showing that the North Pole is the frontline of the global climate crisis.

18/09/2019

World News

Worst-case scenario forecasts 7℃ hike in global temperatures by 2100

Global average temperatures could increase 7℃ above pre-industrial levels by 2100 no matter how hard humans try to stop it, a team of French scientists claim in their latest worst-case scenario modelling.

18/09/2019