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![A visitor to COP29 is seen in silhouette against an illuminated globe of the world in the Zero Waste pavillion at the COP meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan.]()
![A visitor to COP29 is seen in silhouette against an illuminated globe of the world in the Zero Waste pavillion at the COP meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan.]()
Introducing ‘anti-COP’: A climate summit for activists who are fed up
Activists rallied around a shared feeling of exclusion from the formal COP process, and concerns that the solutions that come out of it are harming their communities.
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Can shaming the world’s worst ‘climate criminals’ save the planet?
Climate Defiance activists direct their fury at the rich and powerful. They’ve also started working with them.
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![Collage of environmental defenders' faces, a funeral procession for a Mexican environmentalist, and the Mina Santa Barbara coal mine in Coahuila, Mexico.]()
![Collage of environmental defenders' faces, a funeral procession for a Mexican environmentalist, and the Mina Santa Barbara coal mine in Coahuila, Mexico.]()
‘Living under this constant threat’: Environmental defenders face a mounting mental health crisis
Environmental activists are struggling with paranoia, panic attacks, and depression. Now, a growing network of mental health shelters in South America hopes to fill a void in care.
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![Yuvelis Natalia Morales sitting on a tree stump]()
Opposing fracking cost one Colombian activist her mental health. She’s fighting to win it back.
"At some point, they will kill you and kill all of us," environmental leader Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco was told.
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![A man in a coat puts his arm on the back of a bulldozer]()
![A man in a coat puts his arm on the back of a bulldozer]()
Canada’s first ‘prisoner of conscience’ is an Indigenous land defender
The distinction is given to people who are incarcerated for their politics, religion, or ethnicity, as well as other personal and protected statuses.
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A group of young people just forced Hawaiʻi to take major climate action
The historic agreement comes two years after 13 youth plaintiffs sued the state Department of Transportation.
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![A collage in the shape of a large eye with document text in the sclera and a photo of a pipeline in the iris/pupil]()
![A collage in the shape of a large eye with document text in the sclera and a photo of a pipeline in the iris/pupil]()
FBI sent several informants to Standing Rock protests, court documents show
Until now, only one other federal informant was known to be in the camps.
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![Tractors and burning piles of burning agricultural waste block a highway during a farmers protest in Spain]()
![Tractors and burning piles of burning agricultural waste block a highway during a farmers protest in Spain]()
What Europe’s egg-hurling farmers can teach us about climate progress
EU officials had big plans to slash emissions from farming. Then the protests started.
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How the US government began its decade-long campaign against the anti-pipeline movement
Newly released documents show the FBI monitoring anti-Keystone protesters much earlier than previously known. Young Native activists were among its first targets.
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![Collage of woman motioning toward a red pipeline extending into the distance]()
![Collage of woman motioning toward a red pipeline extending into the distance]()
Inside the last-ditch effort to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
The project is over budget and behind schedule, with a lot of hard work left to do. Its opponents hope that makes fossil fuel companies think twice about building the next one.
