A planned 'head in sand' salute had to be abandoned at COP20 in Peru this week, writes Maxine Newlands - called off due to lack of sand on Lima's stony shores. But climate campaigners in Australia and New Zealand made up for it with dozens of their own 'bums up' actions on sandy Antipodean beaches ...
Bottoms up! 'Head in sand salute' is the new climate protest Maxine Newlands | 10th December 2013 Activism Protest Climate Change Unfccc Australia New Zealand Peru global_day_of_climate_action-8.jpg …
Max Newlands talks to crocodile hunter and conservationist, Steve Irwin’s father Bob, who carries on the family fight to save the Great Barrier Reef from industrial level destruction
Conservationist Bob Irwin joins battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from mega-port development Maxine Newlands | 18th July 2013 Comment Natural World fightforthereef_logo1.jpg Max Newlands talks to …
Indigenous elders from the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) people have put mining company Adani - and Australia's governments - on notice to quit the Carmichael mine project over native title claims. MAXINE NEWLANDS reports
Indigenous land rights could halt Australia's largest coal mining project Maxine Newlands | 16th February 2017 News Mining Australia Protest Indigenous People Land Rights attachment c qc2004_006 map …
Tasmania’s longest running forest blockade has been destroyed in a suspected arson attack. Camp Florentine’s kitchen, information hut, and communal areas were all raised to the ground in the latest assault
Australian eco-protest camp destroyed in arson attack Maxine Newlands | 8th October 2012 News aftermath of arson attack.jpeg Tasmania’s longest running forest blockade has been destroyed in a …
The Great Barrier Reef was a key talking point in the run up to Australia's federal election as politicians promised billions to improve water quality, whilst talking down coral bleaching and report rigging. Ecologist writer, Maxine Newlands, reports...
The Great Barrier Reef's future is as uncertain as the Australian Prime Minister's Maxine Newlands | 13th July 2016 News Coral Reef Coral Bleaching Australia Federal Elections coral reef.jpg The …
Peter Wilcox, Captain of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior III is deeply worried, but not about being blown up by the secret service (again), direct action, terrorism, or being rammed. Maxine Newlands finds out what it is he truly fears.....
… could happen.” Wilcox has sailed the world campaigning for Greenpeace, even managing to …
Australian Greens' Leader Richard Di Natale has called for the prospect of a Trump Presidency and a post-Brexit Britain to be the chance to break old alliances and forge new deals to save the planet. MAXINE NEWLANDS reports
Australian Greens ready to challenge old advocates over climate change Maxine Newlands | 30th November 2016 News Australia Donald Trump Brexit Climate Change Environment Climate Action aus greens …
Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG), an anti-fracking group held their national gathering in the heart of Australia's Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry where the ‘Nannas' workshopped ways of evading arrest, media strategies, avoiding defaming energy companies, lawful protest, successful campaigns, protest songs and nanna naps. MAXINE NEWLANDS joined them for the gathering
Nannalution Gathers Pace: Australia's Knitting Nannas Activists and the Anti-Fracking Movement Maxine Newlands | 9th September 2016 News Fracking Activism Craftivism Knitting Gas Oil Australia …
Last week the Ecologist published a piece on the shocking decision to approve an enormous coal port on the Great Barrier Reef. Here Maxine Newlands reports on how environmental groups in Australia are responding to this threat.....
“We will save the reef”: Great Barrier Reef at Risk from Fossil Fuel Extraction. Maxine Newlands | 22nd April 2013 News p4130117.jpg Activists from onboard the Rainbow Warrior aim to halt the …
The decision by MPs to support the Conservative government in allowing the third runway to go ahead has angered and dismayed all those concerned about climate change. It follows decades of debate and campaigning. MAXINE NEWLANDS looks at why the Heathrow climate camp in 2007 was so important in the history of the UK environmental activism.
… change. It follows decades of debate and campaigning. MAXINE NEWLANDS looks at why the …
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has handed the environment portfolio to the energy minister in an attempt to calm climate sceptics. But will it work? Ecologist writer Maxine Newlands reports.
Australian Climate Sceptics Challenge Clean Energy Plan Maxine Newlands | 28th July 2016 News Renewables Australia Energy Great Barrier Reef Climate Change frydenberg tweet 3.jpg Australia's Prime …
The controversial Murum dam in Malaysia is the first big overseas project for the China Three Gorges Project Company (CTGC) which is building hydro- and coal-fired power stations in 23 countries. So how it resolves its current conflict with the protesting Penan tribe will set an important precedent as to how other Indigenous people are treated.
… in the late ‘80s, as a result of the tireless campaigning of the charismatic Swiss …
Australian politicians are putting the Great Barrier Reef at risk by approving one of the world's largest coal mines, say activists and marine scientists. MAXINE NEWLANDS reports
Coral Not Coal - Australian Activists Fight To Save the Great Barrier Reef Maxine Newlands | 15th December 2016 News Fossil Fuels Coal Mining Australia Activism Great Barrier Reef rally for the reef …