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For more than three decades, Jane Goodall has inspired generations of conservationists through her youth-led action program Roots & Shoots. Now it’s time to take this approach into schools.
Pavel Sulyandziga, a Russian Indigenous activist, poses with his family in 2017 in Yarmouth, Maine, where he awaits a decision on political asylum.
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More than six years after Pavel Sulyandziga, an Indigenous activist from Russia, left the country to seek political asylum in the US, he continues to face harassment by the Russian government.
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Is the disastrous impact we’re having on the planet affecting our decision about having children of our own?
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Activists with autism, bipolar disorder and other conditions spoke about finding purpose in environmental activism.
Accusations of animal cruelty have dogged the Grand National for years.
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The horse race is likely to be disrupted by activists from the Extinction Rebellion offshoot.
Several oil projects are active in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
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Biden vowed ‘no more drilling on federal lands,’ but Russia’s war on Ukraine and pressures at home are hard to ignore.
Inside COP27, young activists like Luisa Neubauer spoke to the media to press their case.
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Activists aren’t necessarily more aggressive than in the past, but they are using creative and sometime shocking new tactics that quickly go viral.
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Linguistic analysis shows that activists and politicians have very different messages when it comes to the environment.
Prince Charles delivering a speech at COP26 in Glasgow.
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Despite not being at COP27, there are other ways for King Charles to showcase his commitment to the environment.
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It might be provocative but this sort of direct action is important.
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Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have vowed to strike at the fossil fuel industry.
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Resurgence of SUV sabotage highlights the failure of climate policy and an evolving protest strategy.
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How Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future upended the rules of environmental activism.
Reducing household energy use can contribute to slowing climate change.
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How and where people spend their money and use energy can influence corporate behavior.
A protestor holds a banner at the Fridays for Future march in New Delhi on Sept. 24, 2021.
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Instead of making symbolic gestures, Indians need to pressure the government to establish effective environmental policies and programs.
Insulate Britain activists block the A41 roundabout between Watford and Kings Langley.
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Climate activists don’t have to be popular to achieve their goals.
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Insulate Britain, a new environmental campaign group, is right to highlight the need for action on home insulation.
Close to 25 per cent of the world’s remaining temperate rainforest is in B.C., mainly along the coasts.
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Environmental groups have protested logging of British Columbia’s old-growth rainforest for three decades. But the Fairy Creek dispute could grow into another ‘War in the Woods.’
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A criminologist spoke to anti-gas pipeline activists.
Activists and supporters of Honduran environmental and Indigenous rights activist Berta Caceres hold signs with her name and likeness during the trial against Roberto David Castillo, an alleged mastermind of her murder, outside of the Supreme Court building in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on April 6, 2021.
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Honduras is the most dangerous country in the world for environmental activists. Those who have opposed mining, hydroelectric, logging and tourism have faced violence and death.