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Calls for urgent action on climate change should be welcomed, even when they come from Pope Francis, writes scientist John Parrington

Hundreds of people protested outside Preston Town Hall on Tuesday of this week as Lancashire County Council considered whether to bring fracking back to the region.

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Four years ago a report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative sparked the global campaign to persuade universities, faith organisations and public institutions to sell financial holdings in fossil fuel companies. The reasoning behind the divestment campaign is simple. Fossil fuel emissions have played a major role in setting the world on course to a 5˚C...

Around 50 campaigners held a silent protest inside Heathrow airport’s Terminal 5 on Sunday of last week. 

Up to 1,000 mostly young people met in central London last Saturday to discuss radical social change in response to climate change.

As activists gather for the This Changes Everything event in London, Martin Empson looks at why workers are the key link in changing the world and saving the planet

Cyclone Pam devastated the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu last week.

More than 20,000 people marched through central London last Saturday demanding urgent action to tackle climate change.

More than 20,000 marched through central London today, Saturday, demanding urgent action to tackle climate change. The Time to Act demonstration was called to put climate change at the top of the agenda ahead of the general election in May and the international talks in Paris in December.

Protesters marching in London this Saturday will say it is time to act on climate change. They are right.

A prominent climate change denier was exposed last week as having received around £800,000 from the fossil fuel industry.