Greta Thunberg

The United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals nearly four years ago, charting a course to address the worlds most serious challenges and to see major results by 2030. To reach this deadline, well need to come together as global citizens in th…

Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, said the impacts of global heating are likely to undermine not only basic rights to life, water, food, and housing for hundreds of millions of people, but also democracy and the rule of…

Berlin (AFP) - German energy giant RWE said Sunday it will be seeking prosecutions after hundreds of climate activists occupied their open-cast mine at the weekend to protest against the use of coal. Following a cat-and-mouse game with police on Saturday, ar…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Hundreds of protesters joined forces to break into the mine and march through it Hundreds of climate change activists have stormed an open cast coal mine in western Germany to campaign against fossil fuels. The protesters …

Garzweiler surface mine (Germany) (AFP) - Several hundred climate activists evaded police to enter an open-cast mine run by energy giant RWE in western Germany Saturday, a day after tens of thousands campaigned against the use of coal. The activists, many dr…

Warsaw (AFP) - Poland and Hungary on Friday said they were protecting their national economies by rejecting an EU bid for zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a goal another opposing country called "ecological hysteria". EU leaders failed Thursday to s…

Viersen (Germany) (AFP) - Tens of thousands of climate activists noisily rallied in Germany Friday to demand action against global warming, now one of the hottest issues on the European political agenda. While several thousand anti-coal activists tried to re…

Viersen (Germany) (AFP) - Thousands of climate activists Friday started marching toward a huge German coal mine they plan to blockade in a protest against global warming, an issue that has shot to the top of the European political agenda. The "Ende Gelaende"…

Viersen (Germany) (AFP) - Thousands of European climate activists are readying Friday to blockade a huge German open-cast coal mine and plant in a campaign of non-violent mass civil disobedience. The target of the so-called "Ende Gelaende" (EG) protest movem…

___ S&P 500 index closes at record high as stock rally continues NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street capped a broad rally for stocks Thursday by driving the S&P 500 index to an all-time high. The gains came as investors balanced optimism over the possibilit…