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Andreas Malm interview: Why climate protesters need to embrace unrest

Andreas Malm interview: Why climate protesters need to embrace unrest

27 October 2021

Given the scale of threat and the size of the organisations they are fighting, climate activists must move beyond civil disobedience to property destruction and even sabotage, says controversial campaigner Andreas Malm


FEATURE CROP Close up of the air '1765'

COP26: Exhibition displays air from dawn of the industrial revolution

27 October 2021

Polar Zero at the Glasgow Science Centre is running alongside the upcoming COP26 summit on climate change. Its exhibitions show the past, present and future of the global climate


Meadows could be our secret weapon in the fight against climate change

Meadows could be our secret weapon in the fight against climate change

27 October 2021

Grasslands are overlooked as a potent resource for combating global warming. That must change, says Gill Perkins


GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 13: A general view of the Scottish Events Centre (SEC) on October 13, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. COP26 will officially begin on Sunday October 31 with the procedural opening of negotiations and finish on Monday November 12th. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

What to expect from the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow

25 October 2021

The COP26 climate summit will be held in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November and will include more than 100 heads of state, who will hash out timetables to limit carbon emissions and address other issues such as adaptations to climate change


Ed Miliband

‘It’s anarchic’: Ed Miliband on what COP climate talks are really like

24 October 2021

Ed Miliband was the UK’s climate minister at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. He talks to Adam Vaughan about the anarchy that ensues during such big events ahead of COP26


Forest Scorpion machine

How Finland plans to create a circular bioeconomy that runs on wood

21 October 2021

Finland wants to make everything from ceramics to medical devices and even satellites from wood, helping it to hit carbon neutrality by 2035


Meet the key players and big names at the COP26 climate summit

Meet the key players and big names at the COP26 climate summit

21 October 2021

John Kerry and David Attenborough are some of the biggest names expected to attend the COP26 climate summit


Airborne microplastic sampling station

Microplastics in the air have a small cooling effect on our climate

20 October 2021

Microplastics pollute the air, and now there is evidence that they have a cooling effect on climate – although it is far smaller than the cooling effect of other particulates


Climate demonstrators

COP26: Which countries are doing best at tackling climate change?

12 October 2021

Ahead of the COP26 climate summit, New Scientist has assessed which countries are ahead when it comes to cutting carbon emissions


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