We stand with the students of British university encampments. Israel’s use of force in Gaza is exercised through violence and dispossession but also through extensive ecological damage. By Lawyers Are Responsible.
Past staff and students of Columbia University’s Climate School have issued a statement asserting their solidarity with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and their campaign for total divestment and full dissociation from institutions profiting from or engaging with Israel’s occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine.
Sarah Benn, a GP and NHS doctor of more than 30 years was today suspended from practicing for 5 months for taking part in climate protests.
Plans by Veolia UK to process thousands of tonnes of the same chemicals involved in the Flixborough disaster at a plant in Garston, Liverpool, has caused uproar in the surrounding community. Ritchie Hunter reports.
This month, in the first case of its kind, the Environment Agency is being taken to court by the environmental campaign group River Action. Eleanor Godwin explores why.
Managing Director of the Climate Rights Coalition, Kip Lyall, writes about the need to remove fossil fuel interests from scientific research, and how we need to compel a global publisher to stop dragging us towards climate disaster.
The destruction of the Palestinian education system, especially higher education, plays a crucial role in this policy of population expulsion. Every Gazan university has been completely or partially destroyed since October, and Universities on the West Bank have come under sustained attack. Ignasi Bernat and Roser Rodríguez show how the destruction of Universities and the killing of scholars is a central part of the genocide in Gaza and challenge European universities to speak out against the genocide.
The same companies facing climate litigation claims are now looking to use the law to their advantage in litigation against climate protestors. By Tanvi Ajmera.
Last week’s news that Thames Water is paying out a £37.5m dividend to its shareholders in the midst of an ongoing sewage crisis has left many in disbelief. David Whyte argues for a different approach to making pollution pay.
As thousands of people die each week, the land they live on, the food and water sources they depend on, and the air they breathe are also being destroyed. Samira Homerange Saunders analyses the connections that are increasingly becoming evident.
