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‘I would never have predicted this’ says Greta Thunberg as millions join her climate strike around the world
The teenage climate activist who began the global school strikes is set to address the UN on Monday.
Kent locals rally against Britain First after the far right agitators threaten patrols to stop refugee boats
Britain First has claimed it will patrol Kent beaches to confront any migrants coming ashore in small boats.
Video – Britain First thugs pelted with rocks when they went to Calais to tell migrants not to cross Channel
Paul Golding, leader of Britain First, travelled to Europe with a team of supporters to film himself confronting asylum seekers - but left swiftly with his tail between his legs when the fuming migrants began hurling rocks at him.
Scientists trap ship in Arctic ice in major new mission to study climate change
Experts from several countries including the UK and US will be on board the German icebreaker RV Polarstern for the start of the major year-long expedition.
Headmistress: Let pupils make own decisions over climate strikes
“Every day we are educating the young people of the future to speak out and make their own decisions - We can't pick and choose what those are".
Today’s global climate strike set to be biggest environmental protest in history
Jeremy Corbyn will address crowds outside parliament as millions set to participate in a global climate strike.
Global warming could accelerate rapidly warns a new study
For the first time, researchers were able to replicate a climate model of the extreme warming of a time before humans walked the Earth.
Parts of Britain face dangerous floods at least every three years, climate change experts have warned.
Worst hit will be the west of England and South Wales - with those living along the coasts of the Bristol Channel, Devon and Cornwall particularly at risk.
Climate change ‘could be combated by blowing up asteroid – just like Bruce Willis in Armageddon’
A cataclysmic collision between two space rocks 466 million years ago caused Earth to freeze over, say scientists.