The activism of two British schoolgirls seems to have finally paid off. More than one year ago, sisters Ella and Caitlin McEwan started a petition calling on McDonald’s and Burger King to stop giving out plastic toys with children’s meals. McDonald’s UK originally responded with an automated email, but on Tuesday, the company pledged to […]
Britain has been battered by back-to-back major storms in consecutive weekends, which flooded streets, submerged rail lines, and canceled flights. The most recent storm, Dennis, forced a group of young climate activists to cancel their first ever national conference, as CBS News reported. “There’s a bleak irony in our being beaten back by climate change,” […]
By Julia Conley Student-led anti-fossil fuel campaigns at universities across the country pointed to Georgetown University Friday as the school’s board of directors announced it would divest from fossil fuels and redouble its efforts to invest in renewable energy instead. The university’s decision came after a sustained pressure campaign from Georgetown University Fossil Free (GUFF), […]
The valve turners recently listed by Homeland Security as “extremists” believe their action of shutting down 15 percent of the daily U.S. oil supply on Oct. 11, 2016 was their only option of fighting the climate crisis. Valve turner Ken Ward of Climate Direct Action is going to trial this spring for the third time. […]
Two men connected to a famous monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico have been found dead within a week of each other, raising concerns for the safety of environmental activists in the country. Homero Gómez González, 50, who managed a butterfly reserve in Mexico’s Michoacán state and campaigned against illegal logging in the butterflies’ winter habitat, […]
By Eoin Higgins Youth climate activists in California descended on the state’s capitol Sacramento on Thursday to demand divestment from the fossil fuel industry from public school teachers’ pension system. “You want to be in a relationship with fossil fuel companies?” Sujeith, a sixth-grader from Oakland, asked the board of the California State Teachers’ Retirement […]
By Jessica Corbett The Fridays for Future movement held a press conference Friday focused on the need for the world to better recognize the amazing climate activism taking place in Africa — a continent that is already enduring severe impacts of global heating in spite of its limited contributions to creating the crisis. Climate activists […]
When you see an actor in handcuffs, they’re usually filming a movie. But when Jane Fonda, Ted Danson, Sally Field, and other celebrities were arrested in Washington, D.C., last fall, the only cameras rolling were from the news media. “When you’re famous, there’s a real responsibility to use that celebrity in the best possible way […]
By Andrea Germanos Youth climate activists marched through the streets of Davos, Switzerland Friday as the World Economic Forum wrapped up in a Fridays for Future demonstration underscoring their demand that the global elite act swiftly to tackle the climate emergency. Among those taking part in the march were Rise Up Movement founder Vanessa Nakate […]
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