Denmark refuses to extradite whaling activist Paul Watson to Japan, says lawyer

US-Canadian founder of Sea Shepherd was arrested in Greenland after Japan issued international warrantDenmark has rejected a Japanese request to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson over criminal charges dating back more than a decade, a Danish …

Anti-whaling activist held in Greenland appeals for political asylum in France

Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd organisation faces extradition to Japan after arrest in Nuuk in JulyPaul Watson, the anti-whaling activist detained in Greenland and awaiting possible extradition to Japan, has appealed to Emmanuel Macron for political a…

Europe was a leader on saving nature. Now, its backsliding could threaten global progress

Once a champion of initiatives to protect nature, the EU is now giving in to pressure from farmers and the far rightWhen diplomats struck a deal to save nature in 2022, pledging to halt biodiversity loss by the end of the decade, Europe was seen as a c…

Demonstrations being held in Italy against โ€˜repressiveโ€™ security bill

Bill by Giorgia Meloniโ€™s far-right government comes down hard on climate activists and migrantsDemonstrations are being held across Italy on Wednesday evening in protest against a new security bill described as โ€œrepressiveโ€ and โ€œdangerous for the count…

Greta Thunberg arrested at Gaza war protest in Copenhagen

Climate activist one of six detained by police after students block university building in Danish capitalIsrael and Hamas at war โ€“ live updatesDanish police have arrested the environmental activist Greta Thunberg in Copenhagen at a protest against the …

Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson to remain detained in Greenland

Anti-whaling activistโ€™s detention to continue while Japanese extradition request is considered, court rulesThe anti-whaling activist Paul Watson is to remain in detention in Greenland while Denmark decides whether to extradite him to Japan, a court in …

Frankfurt and Oslo airport flights hit as Europe-wide climate protests continue

Flights at Germanyโ€™s busiest airport โ€˜gradually resumingโ€™ on second day of coordinated โ€˜oil killsโ€™ protestsClimate activists have disrupted flights at Frankfurt and Oslo airports on the second day of coordinated Europe-wide โ€œoil killsโ€ protests.Demandi…

Activist defaces Monet painting to draw attention to global heating โ€“ย video

A climate activist was arrested at the Musรฉe dโ€™Orsay in Paris after sticking a blood-red poster over Monet’s painting of poppy fields. The woman then revealed a T-shirt saying ‘L’enfer’ (hell). The action by a member of Riposte Alimentaire (Food Respon…

Alarm as German climate activists charged with โ€˜forming a criminal organisationโ€™

Action against Letzte Generation could have โ€˜immense chilling effectโ€™ on climate protest, campaigners sayFive members of Letzte Generation, Germanyโ€™s equivalent to Just Stop Oil, have been charged with โ€œforming a criminal organisationโ€, a move civil ri…

Eight climate activists arrested in Germany over airport protest

About 60 flights cancelled after members of Letzte Generation glue themselves to ground at MunichEight climate activists have been arrested after causing Munich airport to close, leading to about 60 flight cancellations.Six activists broke through a se…

Eight hundred protesters attempt to storm German Tesla factory

Demonstrators opposed to expansion of factory near Berlin claim it would damage environmentHundreds of protesters opposed to the expansion of a Tesla plant in Grรผnheide, near Berlin, clashed with police on Friday as some of them attempted to storm the …

Belgian students occupy Ghent University building in climate and Gaza protest โ€“ video

More than 100 students have occupied Ghent University in the first European protest to fuse demands about Gaza and the climate crisis.Ghentโ€™s centrepiece UFO building was peacefully taken over by students calling for concrete action to meet the univers…

Ghent students occupy university building in climate and Gaza protest

More than 200 expected to join protest calling for climate action and to cut ties with Israeli institutionsIsrael-Gaza war โ€“ live updatesMore than 100 students have occupied Ghent University in the first European protest to fuse demands about Gaza and …

The life and death of Rosa Reichel: the brilliant girl who was swept away

She was just 15 and her friends couldnโ€™t save her from the rising waters. For her family and everyone in this flooded region of Belgium, nothing will ever be the same againIt was not a river. It was scarcely a stream. The Ruisseau des Quartes, Marcourt…

Swedish police forcibly remove Greta Thunberg from parliament entrance

Thunberg and other activists dragged away from doorway they were obstructing in climate protestSwedish police have forcibly removed Greta Thunberg and other climate activists after they blocked the entrance to the Swedish parliament for a second day.Tw…

Greta Thunberg joins climate protest blocking Swedish parliament

Activist accuses Sweden of being โ€˜very good at greenwashingโ€™ as group sits outside buildingโ€™s main entranceGreta Thunberg has accused Sweden of being โ€œvery good at greenwashingโ€ as she staged a protest along with about 50 other activists outside her ho…

Franceโ€™s appetite for frogsโ€™ legs is endangering species in Asia, say campaigners

Scientists and vets are urging the president to afford the worldโ€™s most traded species better protectionsFranceโ€™s hunger for frogsโ€™ legs is โ€œdestructive to natureโ€ and endangering amphibians in Asia and south-east Europe, a group of scientists and vets…

Danish firmโ€™s โ€˜climate-controlled porkโ€™ claim misleading, court rules

Campaigners say decision against Danish Crown, Europeโ€™s largest pork producer, sends resounding messageEuropeโ€™s largest pork producer misled customers with its โ€œclimate-controlled porkโ€ campaign, Denmarkโ€™s high court has ruled in the countryโ€™s first cl…

Public transport workers join climate activists for week of strikes across Germany

Verdi union in unusual alliance with Fridays For Future, founded by Greta Thunberg, based on common goalsPublic transport workers across Germany are joining forces with climate activists for a week of strike action culminating in a collective nationwid…

Protesters throw soup at Mona Lisa in Paris

Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protestersTwo environmental protesters have hurled soup at the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, calling for โ€œhealthy and sustainable foodโ€. The painting, wh…

โ€˜We have a responsibilityโ€™: the older women suing Switzerland to demand climate action

Switzerlandโ€™s KlimaSeniorinnen are taking the government to the European court of human rights for doing too little to tackle the climate crisisThe women, mostly in their 70s, strode up the mountain with dogged grace. Clacking their hiking poles agains…

Controversy over European climate activistsโ€™ criticism of Israel

Extinction Rebellion protest at The Hague accuses Netanyahu of โ€˜war crimesโ€™ and running an โ€˜apartheid regimeโ€™European climate activists have staged protests and posted messages in support of Palestinians, prompting an online backlash and raising intern…

Human rights experts warn against European crackdown on climate protesters

UK has led the way, with countries across the continent making mass arrests, passing draconian new laws and labelling activists as eco-terroristsHuman rights experts and campaigners have warned against an intensifying crackdown on climate protests acr…

Threats to Germanyโ€™s climate campaigners fuelled by politiciansโ€™ rhetoric, says activist

Luisa Neubauer, of Fridays for Future, cites language used by the chancellor amid protest crackdownSevere policing and โ€œscaryโ€ political rhetoric is fuelling abuse against climate activists, Germanyโ€™s best-known environmentalist has said.โ€œItโ€™s not a sh…

Court orders Estonian state energy firm to halt shale oil plant construction

Judges rule environmental impact in Narva-Jรตesuu had not been fully assessed after activists brought caseEstoniaโ€™s supreme court has ordered the state energy company Enefit to halt construction on a shale oil plant because of the damage it will do to t…

Demonstration in Oslo seeks removal of windfarms in Indigenous region

Campaigners use traditional Sรกmi tents to block roads in Norwegian capital in protest against turbines on reindeer pasturesHundreds of Indigenous and environmental campaigners have blocked a main thoroughfare in Oslo to demand the demolition of two win…

‘It’s delicious’: Ryanair boss hit with cream cake in climate protest โ€“ video

The Ryanair CEO, Michael Oโ€™Leary, was hit in the face with what appeared to be a cream cake in Brussels by protesters demonstrating against aviation pollution. The manager of the low-cost airline came to Belgium to hold a press conference about aviatio…

Shore wars: Greeks battle to save beaches from invasion of commercial sunbeds

Protesters demand end to the illegal spread of loungers and say sands must be free for allIn the depth of August, when the cicadas sing and the sun burns bright, Archilochos cultural centre on Paros is not usually a hive of activity. If anything, that …

Greta Thunberg charged with disobeying Swedish police during oil protest

Climate activist will appear in court in late July after disrupting traffic during a demonstration in MalmรถThe climate activist Greta Thunberg is due to appear in court in late July after being charged with refusing to obey police orders during an anti…