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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


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


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


Children watching their Ant Hunt experiment

Danish children trap 19,000 ants to study impact of climate change

19 October 2021

A citizen science project which saw children and their families trap 19,000 ants has identified how different species are coping with climate change in Denmark


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