On Saturday, we celebrated our mother Earth. Now, it’s time to celebrate the human beings who defend her. The 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize winners — chosen from all six continents for their grassroots environmental activism — were announced Monday and will be formally celebrated at the San Francisco Opera House at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time. […]
A group of musicians will start naming planet Earth as a collaborator on the music, which will send some of the royalties to environmental causes. Artists including Brian Eno, Fraser T. Smith, Jacob Collier and Anna Calvi will include a credit to Earth as a co-writer for upcoming music. The artists can choose a percentage […]
Enbridge paid more than $8.6 million to Minnesota police and other agencies to clear the way for the expansion of its Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline by quelling protests and acts of civil disobedience, Grist reports. The pipeline violates and threatens treaty-protected lands where several Anishinaabe tribes hold rights to hunt, fish, and gather […]
Now, famed screenwriter and director Richard Curtis wants them to curb their dirty spending habits, and he’s enlisting some big names in his campaign including actors Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance.
In a sobering first for the U.S., an environmental activist was shot and killed by police in Atlanta, Georgia, in an ongoing struggle over the future of a portion of that city’s urban forest.
An international quartet of prominent young climate activists attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week with a letter calling on fossil fuel CEOS to “cease and desist” any new oil, gas or coal developments. The letter was penned by Greta Thunberg of Sweden, Helena Gualinga of Ecuador, Vanessa Nakate of Uganda and […]
Greta Thunberg was one of the climate activists detained Tuesday during the struggle to protect the German village of Lützerath from being swallowed by an expanding coal mine, the second time this week that the Swedish climate campaigner has been detained during the protests.
In perhaps their most controversial protest yet, two Just Stop Oil activists poured tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s famous “Sunflowers” painting in London’s National Gallery.