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Young people attend a Climate Strike rally, as Afghan security forces guard them in Kabul, Afghanistan
MILLIONS across the world took part in yesterday’s climate strike, organised by schoolchildren concerned over the future impact of an environmental crisis.
Activist Great Thunberg, who founded the global movement, was set to address huge crowds in New York where 1.1 million kids were given the day off school to participate.
Record numbers were seen in Sydney, Australia, as countries including China, India, Greece, Indonesia, Turkey and Nigeria took part, with organisers estimating protests took place in 4,500 locations.
Extreme heat is now one of the defining public health challenges of a warming world, explains Prof IAN WILLIAMS
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results