Greenland and Antarctica are both tracking the IPCC's worst-case climate warming scenario. Left unchecked, this will lead to an extra seventeen centimetres of sea level rise by 2100.
Six-fold increase in polar ice losses since 1990’s Marianne Brooker | 13th March 2020 News Science And Systems Polar Ice screenshot_2020-03-13_at_00.45.53.png Greenland and Antarctica are both …
Thousands of volunteers have participated in a nationwide whale and dolphin watch in the UK, revealing striking biodiversity. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
Variety of whale and dolphin species recorded around the UK 'unprecedented' Marianne Brooker | 23rd August 2018 News Whales Dolphins Sea Sea Watch picture1.png Thousands of volunteers have …
Rewilding conference signals fresh thinking for Scotland’s land and seas.
… fresh thinking for Scotland’s land and seas. A major conference in Stirling this … a world leader in restoring its land and seas to good health, so wildlife and … forests, peatlands, rivers, moorlands and seas, and the benefits this could bring for …
UK government admits BP drilling permit process was unlawful. Greenpeace will now apply to have BP’s permit quashed on climate grounds.
Greenpeace wins legal challenge Marianne Brooker | 8th April 2020 News Greenpeace Bp Legal Challenge Oil Protest Fossil Fuels gp0stthsr_web_size.jpg UK government admits BP drilling permit process …
Torres Strait Islanders are bringing a case to the UN’s Human Rights Committee against Australian Government's inaction on climate change.
… Political Rights. Severe impacts Advancing seas are already threatening homes, as well as … change on our islands daily, with rising seas, tidal surges, coastal erosion and …
Is the UK Labour party the party of labour - or the party of the oil industrial complex? A short history.
Sir Starmer and the gas giants Gareth Dale | 20th August 2022 | News Labour Party Energy Policy Cost of Living Crisis Energy Editor’s Picks 2.67347945.jpg Is the UK Labour party the party of labour - …
Big oil ramps up efforts to gag climate campaigners as BP’s rig operator Transocean takes on Greenpeace in court.
BP rig operator takes Greenpeace to court Marianne Brooker | 3rd February 2020 News Change Makers Bp Greenpeace Oil Law Court gp0stthso_web_size_with_credit_line-664x442.jpg Big oil ramps up efforts …
Greenpeace boss in court as BPs rig operator seeks jail and unlimited fines over rig protest.
'We will not be silenced' Marianne Brooker | 24th February 2020 News Change Makers Greenpeace Bp Fossil Fuels gp0stthso_web_size_with_credit_line-664x442.jpg Greenpeace boss in court as BPs rig …
Liz Truss's decision to overturn the fracking ban in the UK is reigniting grassroots resistance.
Fracking zealots Gareth Dale | 23rd September 2022 | Comment Energy Editor’s Picks Fracking 52341723689_9dc916bf3e_o.jpg Liz Truss's decision to overturn the fracking ban in the UK is reigniting …
Lewis Pugh, the UN Patron of the Oceans, has swum 530 kilometres having set out from Land's End on 12 July. Pugh calls on the UK government to urgently strengthen Marine Protected Areas around the UK and Overseas Territories. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
… Marine Protected Areas around the UK and Overseas Territories. MARIANNE BROOKER reports … British Government to urgently protect the seas around the UK coast and British Overseas Territories by introducing more Marine …
Vanuatu calls for International Criminal Court to seriously consider recognizing crime of ecocide.
The Hague must recognise ecocide Marianne Brooker | 4th December 2019 News Ecocide The Hague Criminal Court International Thought Leaders on_the_podium.jpeg Vanuatu calls for International Criminal …
Activists under the banner of Earth First! take on coal mining in the North East of England.
Two opencast coal mines shut down Marianne Brooker | 20th August 2019 News Earth First! Opencast Mining Coal Activism inside_diggers_at_fieldhouse_opencast_mine.jpg Activists under the banner of …
A team of scientists has discovered that basking sharks can jump as fast and as high out of the water as their cousin, the famously powerful and predatory great white shark. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
Basking sharks can jump as high and as fast as a great white Marianne Brooker | 25th September 2018 News Research Marine Life Sharks Aquatic 6246022639_89bc91b3c1_z.jpg A team of scientists has …
The extreme heat of the upcoming El Niño years should compel us to subordinate profit motives to urgent climate goals. This article first appeared at Truthout.
… its imprint too. In El Niño years, warmer seas in the equatorial Pacific raise global …
New campaign launches to resist a new deep coal mine in Cumbria.
Keep Cumbrian coal in the hole Marianne Brooker | 13th November 2019 News Cumbria Coal Fossil Fuels Change Makers keep_cumbrian_coal_in_the_hole.jpg New campaign launches to resist a new deep coal …
The dangerous heatwave that battered Britain is a stark warning to the new Prime Minister.
Extreme heat 'stark warning to Boris Johnson' Marianne Brooker | 26th July 2019 News Friends Of The Earth Borish Johnson Thought Leaders 43234819402_ee567dca1c_o.jpg The dangerous heatwave that …
The Environmental Justice Foundation has documented gross human rights violations and serious illegal fishing offences aboard the Taiwanese Fuh Sheng 11. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
Violent abuse and illegal fishing aboard Taiwanese vessel Marianne Brooker | 17th September 2018 News Fishing Taiwan Deep Water Fishing Shark Finning Human Rights Abuses …
Global upswell of civil society organisations, communities and academics tells EC to align raw materials sourcing plans with the interests of people and planet.
We can't mine our way out of the climate crisis Marianne Brooker | 29th September 2020 | News Mining Climate Change Climate Emergency Yes To Life No To Mining European Commission Extractivism …