Police officers carry Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg away from the edge of the Garzweiler II opencast lignite mine during a protest action by climate activists after the clearance of Luetzerath, Germany, Tuesday, January 17, 2023
DOZENS of climate activists glued themselves to the road in Cologne city centre and to a state government building in Duesseldorf today to protest against the destruction of a village to make way for a coalmine expansion.
The protests came a day after the last two climate activists holed up in a tunnel beneath the village of Luetzerath, which has been abandoned by its residents, left the site.
Police and energy company RWE started evicting protesters from the hamlet on January 11, removing roadblocks, chopping down treehouses and bulldozing buildings.
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
As fossil fuels have had their day, JOSIE MIZEN makes it clear that it is now the government’s responsibility to initiate the transition to alternative employment in a manner that is organised, efficient and effective
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
