Climate change activist Greta Thunberg has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. The now-16-year-old Thunberg rose to prominence in August of 2018 when she began protesting outside the Swedish Parliament with a sign reading “School Strike fo…
UTTOXETER, England (Reuters) – Three environmental campaigners glued themselves to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s campaign bus on Tuesday after he held an election event at a factory in central England, two days before voters go to the polls. Extinction Reb…
With extreme weather events becoming more frequent and young climate activists keeping the pressure on governments, policymakers and business leaders have finally begun to focus on the threat of climate change. The growing threat to human wellbeing posed by a…
XR promised to transcend politics as we know it. Yet politics has a stubborn way of catching up with those who disavow it. Colin Kinniburgh ▪ Winter 2020 Extinction Rebellion activists in Paris on August 31, 2019 (Lucas Barioulet/AFP via Getty Im…
Extreme weather events may have as much impact on world oil supply, demand and prices as geopolitical risks in 2020, according to S&P Global Platts annual outlook. Already in 2019 flooding disrupted crop planting and harvesting in the U.S. affecting eco…
Brian Eno envisions “a few more years of Brexit purgatory” on his bouncy, satirical new song “Everything’s on the Up With the Tories.” The track, which also touches on income inequality, unemployment and healthcare, blasts the British Conservative Party ahead…
Bundled up in layers outside the Conservative partys London HQ, hats tugged down over ears, coats zipped all the way to the top, the protesters signs plainly announce why they are there: NO FOOD. NO FUTURE; Hunger for Climate Leadership. It is day 22 for some…
LONDON (Reuters) – British model and actress Lily Cole on Monday visited two elderly climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group who have been on hunger strike outside Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party headquarters for 22 days…
Extinction Rebellion protesters in hi-vis jackets have glued themselves to concrete blocks outside Leicester Square tube station to campaign against air pollution. It is the latest demonstration as part of the climate change group’s ’12 Days of Crisis’ which…
Extinction Rebellion activists have staged a demonstration called The Air We Grieve demanding action on the deadly levels of air pollution in central London this morning. Blocking Cranbourne Street outside Leicester Square a road chosen for its dangerously h…
