Greta Thunberg

"Climate strike" is the word of the year, according to Collins Dictionary. The word is defined as "a form of protest in which people absent themselves from education or work in order to join demonstrations demanding action to counter climate change." Collins…

What's that? Scientists around the world have been talking about this for 40 years? The first major warning was in 1992? Just in 2017, over 15,000 signed their names to an almost-identical warning? And that number went down to 11,000 this year because 4,000 o…

Over 20 Countries Have Started Building An 8,000KM “Great Green Wall” To Stop Climate Change And Desertification

I write to you in your seventeenth year.  I am writing you because this was the year you saw people ridicule you, a solitary figure calling the world to attention with School Strike for Climate; because you know that the last four years were the hottest on re…

Add Roland Emmerich to the list of well-established directors who have expressed their dislike of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The "Independence Day" director — whose new war movie "Midway" starring Woody Harrelson and Nick Jonas is out November 8 —  told …

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg is a long way from where she needs to be. Since a UN speech in New York in late September, the 16-year-old Swedish campaigner has spent weeks traveling overland en route to the COP25 climate summit in Santiago, Chile. But…

Media captionThe actress and activist tells the BBC's Luke Jones about why she's being arrested every week, but doesn't want to go to prison. The actress and activist Jane Fonda says she "worries" about climate activist Greta Thunberg. "She understands that…

Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP via Getty Images Paradise is not what it used to be, as Greta Thunberg witnessed earlier this week. Today the town with a lovely name is best known for the apocalyptic fire that ripped through it last year, decimating nearly …

Jane Fonda has been arrested for the FOURTH TIME in as many weeks as part of her crusade for climate change, but this time ... she'll also have to spend a night in the slammer. Jane was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police Friday inside the Hart Senate Building. …

Swedish youth climate activist Greta Thunberg joined young protesters in Los Angeles on Friday to call for government leaders in the state and beyond to take swift action on climate change. Hundreds of Angelenos many of them students who opted out of school …