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People from the Waoraní Indigenous community attend an event promoting a ‘yes’ vote in a referendum on not extracting oil in Quito, Ecuador, on Monday 14 August 2023.Photo: AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa/Alamy

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‘A victory for life over capitalism’. How the people of Ecuador beat the oil giants and saved Yasuní National Park, by Danny Chivers.

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Standing firm against BP sponsorship of the British Museum’s ‘Troy’ exhibition on 8 February 2020. Hundreds of activists were also joined by a giant Trojan horse.Photo: Imageplotter/Alamy

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Ending the artwash. Words by Danny Chivers.

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Get wired: A vehicle recharging point at a motorway service station in Derbyshire, England.Photo: Transportimage Picture Library/Alamy

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Electric cars: climate saviours or eco-villains? Words – Danny Chivers.

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An activist holds a placard featuring Gautam Adani during a protest in Delhi, India on 6 February 2023.Photo: Adnan Abidi/Reuters/Alamy

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Coal in a hole. Words Danny Chivers.

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Australian activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco was handed 15 months in prison for being part of a climate protest that blocked Sydney’s Harbour Bridge. An appeal against her sentence is due to be heard in March 2023. A group of Coco’s supporters gathered in front of Parliament House, Canberra, on 5 December 2022.Photo: Leo Bild/Alamy

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How to fight the climate clampdown. Words by Danny Chivers.

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Artists and activists from BP or not BP? disrupt the BP Portrait Award in London, England, on 10 June 2019.Photo: Mark Kerrison/Alamy

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5 good news climate stories from 2022 by Danny Chivers.

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Keeping it green: One of the activists taking part in a human chain at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) in Nagoya, Japan on 28 October 2010.Photo: Reuters/Alamy/Yuriko Nakao

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One eye on nature, by Aruna Chandrasekhar.

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Global action: Activists in London demand that G7 leaders cancel the debt of the countries in the Global South, on 26 June 2022.Photo: Vuk Valcic/Alamy

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Payback time, by Danny Chivers.

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A Scientist Rebellion march makes its way through The Hague on 6 April 2022, stopping at the Dutch Finance Ministry, the Economy and Climate Ministry and the Foreign Affairs Ministry buildings on the way.Photo: Ana Fernandez/SIPA US/Alamy

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Applied science. Danny Chivers reports on A Scientist Rebellion in The Netherlands.

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Hundreds of billboards and bus stops – like this one in Brighton, England – have been hacked by activists across Europe as part of the call to #BanFossilAds and stop greenwashing.Design: Noel Douglas. Installation: Brandalism

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Can we banish polluters from our billboards? Words by Danny Chivers.

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In South Africa, activists are challenging Shell’s drilling plans along the country’s eastern coastline.Photo: Mike Hutchings/Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo

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The ultimate 2022 climate to-do list by Danny Chivers.

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Farmers in India have led the way restoring soils and boosting yields.Photo: Jake Lyell/Alamy

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Soil – the climate fix that cop forgot. By Danny Chivers.

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Internationalize it! A girl takes part in a global day of action on climate change in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa in September 2020.Photo: Sumaya Hisham/Reuters

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Danny Chivers suggests five useful things you can do during COP26.

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Protesters make the link between climate change and wildfires at the British Museum, which receives sponsorship from oil firm BP.Photo: Joseph Edwards

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The burning issue; Breaking the mould; Here comes the sun.

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Tree-planting overkill? There literally isn’t enough room on the planet to host all the corporate carbon-offsetting plans.Photo: Nikola Jovanovic/Unsplash

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Is there such a thing as a ‘good’ carbon offset? Words by Danny Chivers.

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Fighting on all fronts. Samela, a 23-year-old activist from the Association of the Satere-Mawe Indigenous Women in Manaus, Amazonas in Brazil, co-ordinates the production of protective face masks.Photo: Raphael Alves/IMF/Creative Commons

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Want to restore and protect the world’s forests? Then uphold the rights of the people who live in them, says Danny Chivers.

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Not green, in fact: The Petra Nova CSS facility (pictured above) captured carbon from a coal plant in Texas, US... and used the CO2 to boost production at the West Ranch oil field, via a 130-kilometre pipeline.Photo: Trish Badger/Reuters

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Carbon capture – still a pipe dream? Words by Danny Chivers.

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Amazon for the Amazon? Founder Jeff Bezos at his firm's HQ in Seattle.Photo: Ted S Warren/AP

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Can Amazon deliver a zero-carbon future? Words by Danny Chivers.

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Photo: Alwin Kroon/Unsplash

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Endtimes for Big Oil. Danny Chivers and Jess Worth have some good news from the frontlines

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Calling for a green economic recovery from Covid-19 near the British Parliament.Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/PA Images

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Jake Woodier on the climate activists challenging corporate bailouts for the world’s polluters.

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Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title	From magazine	Publication date
Temperature Check	Spying on dissent	November, 2023
Temperature Check	Decolonize now	September, 2023
Temperature Check	Palestine	July, 2023
Temperature Check	Loneliness	May, 2023
Temperature Check	A world to win	March, 2023
Temperature Check	The cost of living crisis	January, 2023
Temperature Check	Land rights	November, 2022
Temperature Check	Railways	September, 2022
Temperature Check	Rivers of life	July, 2022
Temperature Check	How we stop big oil	May, 2022
Temperature check	Abolition	March, 2022
Temperature check	Romani lives matter	January, 2022
Temperature check	The future of work	November, 2021
Temperature check	Food justice: who gets to eat?	September, 2021
Temperature check	Courage and terror in Myanmar	July, 2021
Temperature check	Vaccine equality	May, 2021
Temperature check	Democracy on the edge	March, 2021
Temperature check	The biodiversity emergency	January, 2021
Temperature check	A caring economy	November, 2020
Temperature check	Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic	September, 2020

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