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Land in Barbuda has become increasingly privatized. This photo was taken in May 2023 at Coco Point. The beaches are public up to the high water mark, which is usually up to the vegetation line in front of the sign.Photo: Global Legal Action Network

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The case for the defence (of nature). Words – Danny Chivers.

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A Rainbow Warrior crew member holds a Comoros flag on the pier outside Kingsnorth power station on 19 October 2008. The Union of the Comoros is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries.Photo: Will Rose/Greenpeace

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Coal power vs people power. Why the climate victories of the past may win us a better future. Words – Danny Chivers.

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Greenpeace activists protest in front of a biomass power plant in Bischofferode, Germany in 2022. The placard reads: ‘Protect forests, do not burn!’.Photo: Greenpeace

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Should forests be fuel? The pre-emptive arrest of 25 climate campaigners in the UK, highlights a dirty secret. Danny Chivers reports.

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Fishing boats damaged by Hurricane Beryl sit upended in Bridgetown, Barbados on 1 July 2024. The earliest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record, its arrival showed the urgency of the climate crisis.Photo: Ricardo Mazalan/Associated Press/Alamy

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Stop digging. Words – Danny Chivers.

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KlimaSeniorinnen: Swiss retirees demonstrate outside the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Wednesday 29 March 2023.Photo: Jean-Francois Badias/AP Photo/Alamy

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Climate lawsuits take off. Words – Danny Chivers.

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Activists from Global Justice Now demand that the UK government exit the Energy Charter Treaty during a protest in London on 4 November 2022. In February this year, the UK announced it would leave the Treaty.Photo: Andrea Domeniconi/Alamy

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Polls, public pressure and pipelines. A round-up of some key climate news by Danny Chivers.

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Climate activists Patience Nabukalu (front centre) and Greta Thunberg (front left) join a protest against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Bonn, Germany on 12 June 2023.Photo: Henning Kaiser/Associated Press/Alamy

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Four sources of climate hope. Words by Danny Chivers.

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Even in cold weather, heat pumps extract enough heat from the air to keep people warm inside their home.Photo: Island Images/Alamy Stock Photo

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Pumped up. Are heat pumps the low-impact solution we need to heat our homes? Words by Danny Chivers.

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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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Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title	From magazine	Publication date
Temperature Check	Indigenous sovereignty in Australia	March, 2025
Temperature Check	Guns and power	January, 2025
Temperature Check	Disinformation	November, 2024
Temperature Check	Election year	September, 2024
Temperature Check	Abortion	July, 2024
Temperature Check	Debt: which way out?	May, 2024
Temperature Check	South Africa 30 years later	March, 2024
Temperature Check	Climate capitalism	January, 2024
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

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