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Environmental activism

October 2026

  • The NSW premier, Chris Minns, speaks to media on Thursday. He said ‘activists considering court actions’ after the landmark Hunter Valley finding should not get ‘overexcited’.

    Chris Minns says activists shouldn’t get ‘overexcited’ about ‘technical’ landmark coalmine decision

  • A green mountainside of a fjord in Norway above blue water

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    This is one of Norway’s most pristine fjords. So why is it being used as a dumping site for mine waste?

  • Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan on their property in the Upper Hunter Valley in Muswellbrook, NSW

    ‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired couple who took on a coal giant and won

  • Australia's PM Anthony Albanese smiles giving a thumbs up at a Tuvalu coastal project

    Overseas, Albanese sees ‘the very definition of climate injustice’ – but at home, he still wants coal

  • ‘Lawyers should be running to courts’ to stop coal approvals after landmark ruling, NSW MP says

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘They take our water, our soil’: protesters fight ‘foreignisation’ as Javier Milei encourages land sales in Argentina

  • Our rivers
    ‘It’s shocking really’: Devon community tracks River Dart sewage spills

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Water yes, mining no!’: the 87-year-old farmer who became a nature hero in Colombia

September 2026

  • An aerial view of oal trucks at work at the Hunter Valley Operations mine

    double quotation markThe green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians

    Georgina Woods
  • At a herring festival in Achiltibuie, north-west Scotland, a man plays violin as a woman plays harp for seated guests.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles

  • Teenager writes letters to imprisoned climate activists

    The Guardian documentary
    Prison Letters: the teenager writing letters to jailed climate activists – documentary

  • A teenager struggling with climate anxiety searches for hope in an unexpected place – writing letters to imprisoned activists. Max, 14, is on a quest to understand the human stories behind direct action, and why so many climate protesters have spent time in prison​

    Letters from prison
    Prison Letters: the teenager writing letters to jailed climate activists – documentary

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  • Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’

  • Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

August 2026

  • Duguy stands by a rusted wall and fence near a chemical plant

    How growing up in ‘Chemical Valley’ inspired lawyer to sue industry she used to work for

    Hélène Duguy is taking on companies accused of failing to stop Pfas pollution in the area of France she calls home
  • From left, Thom Yorke, Romy  from the XX and Brian Eno were among more than 200 musicians arguing against further North Sea drilling

    Thom Yorke, Romy and Brian Eno among 200 musicians urging PM to reject new North Sea drilling

    Robert Smith, Olly Alexander and Paris Paloma also among signatories to letter saying exploitation of Rosebank and Jackdaw fields defies climate reality
  • Police have dropped charges against 125 Rising Tide protesters who blockaded Newcastle port in 2024.

    Police drop charges against 125 Rising Tide protesters two years after Newcastle port blockade

    Climate change activists faced up to two years in prison if convicted over blockade of world’s largest coal port

July 2026

  • Protesters march down a city street carrying signs including one reading 'NOT WILLING TO TRADE CIVIL LIBERTY FOR FALSE SECURITY.'

    ‘It came out of real frustration’: the 90s activist network that set fires to save a burning planet

    Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night examines Earth Liberation Front, a US eco-anarchist movement, and its legacy of radical environmentalism
  • People in bathing suits descending down steps to join others standing in river surrounded by greenery.

    Almost 75% of England’s riverbanks ‘off limits’ to public, figures show

    Campaigners urge government to introduce right of access to water, particularly as heatwaves become more common
  • Aerial view of the village of Apiwtxa, next to a winding stretch of river and surrounded by rainforest

    Masked men invading and taking Amazon communities ‘hostage’ in organised crime surge, say local leaders

    Delegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon
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