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Environmental activism

July 2024

  • Protesters hold placards during a rally marking World Environment Day

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    Newsroom edition: why anti-protest laws won’t stop climate activists – Full Story podcast

  • People with placards and banners that say 'Shame, set and match' and 'Tennis is a game. Climate change is not'

    Wimbledon official defends Barclays sponsorship deal amid protests

  • Leafy pond in East Lavant, near Chichester

    ‘Blue wall’ of Tory seats collapsed because of green issues, say Greenpeace

  • A woman in white is grabbed by two police officers wearing masks

    Cambodia jails 10 environmentalists in ‘crushing blow to civil society’

June 2024

  • Finch raising both arms in delight as other activists look  on

    Sarah Finch: climate activism ‘early adopter’ behind supreme court win

  • Protesters with banner reading 'no more U-turns, Green new deal now', while person in Keir Starmer costume puts a pieces of paper with 'promises to young people' written on it in a bin that is decorated with flames

    ‘You’re letting our generation down’: the green activists warning of a bad deal for young people under Labour

  • Elaine Holland, aged 88, on her organic allotment in Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, where vegetables were grown interspersed with flowers and herbs

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    Elaine Holland obituary

  • Thousands of people marched through central London to urge political leaders to take more decisive action in tackling the UK’s wildlife crisis

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    'More birds, more trees': thousands march for nature in London – video

  • Restore Nature Now march in London – in pictures

  • Restore Nature Now: thousands to march in London calling for urgent action

  • ‘What if there just is no solution?’ How we are all in denial about the climate crisis

  • Future impact of proposed fossil fuel projects must be assessed, UK court rules

  • Planes spray-painted at UK airfield where Just Stop Oil says Taylor Swift jet landed – video

  • Activists spray Stonehenge with orange powder paint ahead of summer solstice – video

  • My best shot
    A bloodied hunter in the world’s first designated wilderness: Kathleen Orlinsky’s best photograph

  • Kenya’s first nuclear plant: why plans face fierce opposition in country’s coastal paradise

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace; Presumed Innocent; The Rest Is Politics; Inside No 9 – review

  • Ugandan oil pipeline protester allegedly beaten as part of ‘alarming crackdown’

  • Council asks for permanent injunction to stop protests outside UK oil terminal

  • Nils Pratley on finance
    Book festival activists are making absurd demands over Baillie Gifford

    Nils Pratley
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