Climate crisis

Controversial campaigners Just Stop Oil are quitting - bringing an end to years of protests, stunts and soup throwing. The British environmental activist group ''hanging up the hi vis'' saying their initial demands are now Government policy.

Just Stop Oil: Campaign group’s most controversial protests

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Greece has declared an month-long state of emergency on Santorini after a series of earthquakes have rocked the popular holiday island. (Photo: Getty Images)

Month-long state of emergency declared on popular holiday island

French astrologer and physician Michel De Nostradamus (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The six 2025 predictions of French astrologer Nostradamus explained

Visitors look at Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus at its exhibition booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 5, 2024. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk's Optimus Robot shows we are focusing on the wrong things

An activist puts up a banner reading "Just Stop Oil" atop an electronic traffic sign along M25

Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for M25 blockade

Greece has been rocked by blazing wildfires with holidaymakers forced to evacuated hotels - how safe is it to visit the holiday destination? (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Is it safe to travel to Greece amid raging wildfires?

Residents fill water containers from a municipal tanker in New Delhi on Tuesday, amid scorching heatwave conditions (Photo: MONEY SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images)

More than 100 dead in India's 'longest heatwave ever'

Just Stop Oil have refused to confirm how their activists got to Stonehenge (Image: Still from Just Stop Oil's video)

Just Stop Oil refuse to rule out driving to Stonehenge Amber Allott

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has delivered a special address on climate action today (Photo: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

UN demands action as warmest May and 12-month 'hot streak' confirmed

Wednesday, June 5 is World Environment Day with the 2024 theme on land restoration and desertification. (Credit: Getty Images)

Explainer What is World Environment Day?

Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey and Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Jane Dodds (left) during a visit to Wales on the General Election campaign trail (Photo: Jacob King/PA Wire)

Explainer Here are the Lib Dems' environment and climate policies this election

People attend a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro to call for justice for the murder Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips (Photo: LUCIOLA VILLELA/AFP via Getty Images)

The planet's in peril, but so are the people who make sure you know it Amber Allott

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Study reveals long-haul flights from UK match short-haul prices

The Google Doodle for April 22, 2024 celebrates Earth Day, a worldwide annual event which celebrated the protection of the environment. (Credit: Google)

Google celebrates Earth Day

A worker installs a heat pump in a home in Saint-Didier, western France (Photo: DAMIEN MEYER/AFP via Getty Images)

Homes embracing eco-tech like electric cars are 'energy patriotic'

The last farmer protest in Westminster in 2020. Credit: Getty

Farmers block roads in central London to protest against Rishi Sunak
Farmers are set to drive tractors around central London for hours to protest against Rishi Sunak and the government.
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It will be lights out for the London Eye this year, for Earth Hour 2024 (Photo: thelastminute.com/Supplied)

'Give an hour for the Earth' for Earth Day 2024

Hundreds of protesters have blockaded the Lloyd's of London building (Photo: Wang Sum Luk)

Hundreds of climate protesters blockade Lloyd's of London

Botanical gardens, like London's Kew Gardens, bring with them an average of 5C cooling during heatwaves (Photo: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

Botanic gardens can cool cities up to 5C during heatwaves

London would need 1,330 more Hyde Parks filled with trees to combat its CO2 emissions (Photo: Alex Davidson/Getty Images)

London would need 1,330 Hyde Parks 'full of trees' to combat emissions

Climate change is threatening the future of the global rose industry, a new report says (Photo: Victoria Jones/PA Wire)

Valentine's Day roses might be threatened by climate change

Labour leader Keir Starmer is expected to ditch the party's £28 billion-a-year green investment pledge on Thursday (Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

Starmer slashes £28b green pledge by 80%

Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg (left) outside Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday (Photo: James Manning/PA Wire)

Greta Thunberg's charge thrown out of court

The government says it will work alongside new licensees to help bring them into production as quickly as possible (Photo: PA)

Government grants 24 new oil and gas licences

So-called climate deniers on social media were changing tack, the study suggested (NationalWorld/Adobe Stock)

One in three teens think climate change 'exaggerated', study shows

Just Stop Oil representatives have finally met with Met Police (Photo: PA)

Just Stop Oil finally meet with Met Police over protests

Much of the world experienced devastating heatwaves and even wildfires over 2023 (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

2023 officially the world's hottest year on record
The Met Office has warned 2023 might not hold the record for long, with 2024 on track to be even hotter
Amber Allott

A new study has found meat-free eating has a much lower environmental impact on emissions, land use, water pollution risk, water use and biodiversity loss (Image: NationalWorld/Adobe Stock)

Why you should give Veganuary a try in the new year Amber Allott

According to their survey, 91% of people have been hit by the cost of living crisis in some way. (Image: AdobeStock)

Lakeland Trends Report 2023: how people are saving money and energy

Delegates applaud after a speech by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (centre), President of the COP28 Climate Conference (Photo by Fadel Dawod/Getty Images)

Analysis Everything you need to know about COP28's historic 'UAE Consensus'

Dengue fever – a disease normally associated with tropical areas of the world – is becoming more prevalent in parts of Europe due to climate change, researchers have warned (Photos: Adobe Stock)

Dengue fever could be spreading in the UK within decades, experts warn

Rishi Sunak, right, and Keir Starmer are both in Dubai for the Cop28 summit. Credit: Kim Mogg/Getty

Explainer Rishi Sunak to announce £1.6bn of climate funding at Cop28

Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg makes her way through the gathered media as she arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London (Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Greta Thunberg pleads not guilty in London court after protest arrest

Activists with banner during the occupation of the Shell oil platform (Photo: Greenpeace/Supplied)

Oil giant Shell sues Greenpeace for £1.7m, unless it ends protests

Just Stop Oil says their march was not on the same side of the road as the ambulance (Photo: Just Stop Oil/Supplied)

Police accuse Just Stop Oil slow marchers of blocking ambulance

Met Police officers remove a Just Stop Oil protester detained whilse blocking Whitehall during a protest (Photo: Lucy North/PA Wire)

Just Stop Oil hits out at 'lie' slow marchers targeted Cenotaph

The glass protecting the Rokeby Venus was shattered with safety hammers, the group claimed (Just Stop Oil/Supplied)

Just Stop Oil activists smash glass protecting Rokeby Venus

The Met Office warns climate change is going to make the UK's winters wetter and stormier - as communities are battered by back-to-back storms (NationalWorld)

Accepting weak climate policy is accepting the 'unrelenting misery' of storms Amber Allott

A police officer passes demonstrators, including scientists and doctors, calling for the government to stop awarding new licences for oil and gas production in the UK (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Environmentalists slam 'backwards' move to grant 27 new oil licences

Marks on the edge of the rock, at the same level as the river, appeared this week. Engravings have the same pattern as the Caretas site, in Itacoatiara (Photos: Valter Calheiros/Amazônia Real)

A historic drought reveals mysterious carvings in Amazonian riverbanks

A protester today targeted the Alan Gilbert building at the University of Manchester (Photo: Just Stop Oil/Supplied)

Just Stop Oil allege 20 police, some 'armed', sent to arrest teen

The climate crisis is already changing the taste and price of beer, scientists have warned. Getty Images

Climate crisis will change the taste and price of beer, scientists say

Another activist targeted the pillars at UCL (Just Stop Oil/Supplied)

University College London and four others 'painted orange' by Just Stop Oil

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Carbon Passports could be the future of international travel

Fairy circles in the Triodia spinifex grassland (Image: Stephan Getzin/PNAS)

Mysterious fairy circles are more common than previously thought

Climate activists hold up portraits of slain Philippine environmental defenders in 2021 (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Sixty people killed last year in deadliest country for environmentalists

The number of babies born in the UK has hit its lowest ever level since 2002. (Photo: Adobe Stock)

‘Good for our planet’: babies born in UK at lowest level since 2002

Protestors made their way onto the 17th green on day four of the AIG Women's Open at Walton Heath Golf Club (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Explainer What is Money Rebellion? The protest group starting to make waves

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Rishi Sunak boards a plane at Stansted Airport as he departs for the Aukus meeting in San Diego in March 2023 (Photo: Leon Neal - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Rishi Sunak outpaces last three PMs in domestic RAF flights

An employee poses with a pipe used to carry liquid CO2 at the ‘Schwarze Pumpe’ (‘Black Pump’) near Berlin, Germany (Photo: MICHAEL URBAN/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

'A green gloss' - Sunak backs carbon capture alongside oil push

As Britons eye the gargantuan profits hauled in by fossil fuel and energy giants so far this year, many minds are no doubt turning to the two different injustices at play - our power bills, and the climate crisis.

The two-fold injustice at the heart of fossil fuel profits Amber Allott

UK ‘abandons’ position as world leader as climate action ‘worryingly’ slow. (Photo: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

UK ‘abandons’ world leader status as climate action ‘worryingly’ slow

Environment experts say the impacts of climate change are already hitting Britain. Image: NationalWorld

In charts: how climate change is affecting the UK nations

A person waiting for the Subway wears a filtered mask as smoky haze from wildfires in Canada blankets the Bronx borough of New York City (Image: Getty)

‘Welcome to Hell’: the billboard that nailed the climate crisis Nick Mitchell

Climate change will make wildfires more frequent and intense. Image: NationalWorld

The US chokes, Canada burns - but dangerous wildfires are at our door Aimee Stanton