The Collins Dictionary has named "climate strike" as its word of the year, defining it as "a form of protest in which people absent themselves from education or work in order to join demonstrations demanding action to counter climate change."
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Extinction Rebellion climate-change activists won a legal challenge in London's High Court on Wednesday against a police-imposed blanket ban on protests during its "Autumn Uprising" in the British capital in October.more
Animal rights campaigners are celebrating after it was revealed that the Queen will no longer be wearing fur in her new outfits and any new clothes designed for her will use fake fur instead.more
French film director Luc Besson was taken to court in the northern Normandy region on Monday for refusing to allow hunters onto his land to shoot deer.more
A new coalmine in Cumbria has been given the green light by the government in the same week that the Treasury launched a review into how the UK can end its contribution to global heating.more
The Spanish government said yesterday that it would cover the cost of the arrival of the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg to the international climate summit in December in Madrid. The 16-year-old is to take a sea voyage from New York to the Iberian Peninsula.
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Officials in Rome have rejected a plan to expand Fiumicino airport after an environmental commission deemed the project "incompatible" with an existing natural reserve, the environmental ministry said on Monday.more
Poor air quality caused about 400,000 premature deaths in Europe in 2016, the most recent year data is available, and almost every city-dwelling European is exposed to pollution levels that exceed healthy levels, according to a report on Wednesday.more
Rome, one of Europe's most traffic-clogged cities and home to thousands of ancient outdoor monuments threatened by pollution, plans to ban diesel cars from the centre by 2024, its mayor has said.more
A survey commissioned by the Shell oil corporation among German youth showed that more than half of this social group did not trust the government. more
Activists from the Extinction Rebellion (XR) organization have announced that they will continue the climate protests in London despite the police's order to end them.more
66 percent Poles declare that they do not segregate waste, and 58 percent believes that segregation makes sense - according to the ARC Market and Opinion survey and the Responsible Business Forum. As added, 15 percent respondents would be able to correctly sort articles during disposal.more
An Extinction Rebellion activist had to be taken off a flight at London City Airport, as part of ongoing protests. BBC Newsnight's Nicholas Watt said his flight was about to take off when a protester refused to resume his seat.more
Boris Johnson's father has told Extinction Rebellion protesters that their work is "extremely important" - less than two days after his son labelled them "uncooperative crusties".more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sharply criticized activists of the Extinction Rebellion organization, who, as part of the fight against climate change, began blocking streets in London the day before. Police have reported that over 400 people have been arrested so far.more