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We need climate reparations to confront the colonial past

Calling for justice — Countries in the Global North are disproportionately responsible for driving greenhouse gas emissions. To give frontline communities the freedom to fight the climate crisis, we must take a reparative approach, argues human rights lawyer, Harpreet Kaur Paul.

  • Activism
  • Harpreet Kaur Paul

Teenage climate activists on speaking truth to power

Rise up — A new portrait project from photographer Harry Rose sees young UK activists revealing what they’d say to ruling figures given the chance – and how they’d stress the severity of the climate emergency.

  • Activism
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How climate activism is adapting amid global lockdown

Join the digital strike — With street protests now banned thanks to the Coronavirus crisis, Fridays For Futures school strikers are finding new ways to advocate for change.

  • Activism
  • Daisy Schofield

How the fight for the planet became whitewashed

The Fightback: Climate — Shut down and cropped out: 17-year-old activist Athian Akec reflects on the systemic racism of the climate movement.

  • Activism
  • Athian Akec

Choose life and vote for our planet on December 12

In partnership with Patagonia — We have 10 years to stop the climate crisis, which means that the stakes are higher than ever.

  • Opinion
  • Alex Beasley

A week on the streets with XR’s Red Rebel Brigade

Season of disruption — Writer and photographer Peter Brooks braves the heckles with the most enigmatic faction of the Extinction Rebellion uprisings.

  • Reportage
  • Peter Brooks

Bullets, bikes & corruption: the fight to save Armenia’s forests

On the frontline — In Dilijan national park, a group of radical forest rangers – made up of young environmental activists and volunteers – are taking a stand against the country’s ‘wood mafia’.

  • Activism
  • Joe Nerssessian

Buying new is not sustainable, no matter how you sew it

A deep dive into fast fashion — The fashion world may be promoting a new, more ‘sustainable’ kind of consumerism – but no matter what they try and sell us, buying new will never lead to real change.

  • Activism
  • Kat George

At sea with the world’s first ethical cargo ships

The Travel Diary — Photographer Barry Macdonald joins the crew of Fairtransport – a revolutionary, zero-emissions cargo company powered by sail only.

  • Travel
  • Barry Macdonald

One woman's epic trek across the USA... on horseback

Riding Wild — Eco activist Aniela Gottwald is working her way through the American wilderness to campaign for better environmental protection. But having battled hardship along the way, the 26-year-old has discovered a sense of resilience she didn’t think possible.

  • Outdoors
  • Adam White

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