Climate Change
Impossible Rebellion: photos of XR blocking a London junction
No planet B — The activist group kicked off its latest mass protests by building a huge table in Covent Garden to demand that the government stops using fossil fuels. Photographer Aiyush Pachnanda was on hand to capture the action.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Students gather to demand climate education reform
Teach the future — Following the IPCC report issuing its most severe warning on climate yet, students from across the country came together outside the Department of Education to demand urgent action over a curriculum which is failing to address the current crisis.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Sand art calls on world leaders to cut carbon emissions
G7 summit 2021 — The giant sand art commissioned by sustainable footwear brand Allbirds is calling on leaders to use their global leadership position to drive down their carbon footprints today.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Heathrow is suffocating Black Londoners
Time to act — After a day of historic verdicts, it's time to take the threat that air pollution poses to people living in London's poorest areas seriously, argues Huck's Politics Editor, Ben Smoke.
Written by: Ben Smoke
It's time for football to reckon with its carbon footprint
A common goal — With the game only growing in popularity and excess, football's impact on the environment continues to balloon. But an increasing number of people involved in the game are trying to change that.
Written by: Rosie Hewitson
The teens behind a landmark climate lawsuit
Futures before fossil — A group of teenagers from Australia are suing the government over a coal mine extension. Win or lose, it’ll make a profound difference across the world to similar cases fighting to make climate change a children's rights issue.
Written by: Lucia Osborne-Crowley
The activists fighting to give nature human rights
Law of the land — Pollution levels are rising once again after reaching a record low in lockdown. Could rights of nature legislation prevent impending catastrophe?
Written by: Poppy Koronka
Tribes of the Amazon: Inside the struggle of the Yanomami
A fight for survival — In 1971, photographer Claudia Andujar began photographing the Yanomami – an Amer-Indian tribe living on the border of Brazil and Venezuela. In the years that followed, their existence came under serious threat.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Mark O’Connell’s guide to surviving the apocalypse
Notes from the end of the world — In his new book, Notes From An Apocalypse, the Irish author investigates our in-built obsession with the end of the world – meeting preppers, bunker entrepreneurs and would-be Mars colonists from around the globe.
Written by: Colin Gannon
The changing face of the Amazon, in photos
A tale of destruction — Covering more than 3.21 million square kilometres across nine countries, the Amazon is an integral part of the earth’s global ecosystem – but in less than 50 years, more than 20 per cent of it has disappeared.
Written by: Miss Rosen