The Latest Breaking News from Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion have smashed the glass of a Barclays bank in Glasgow.

Protesters gather at Farnborough and Luton as part of global action, also calling for tax on frequent fliers

Paris (AFP) - Soup on Vincent van Gogh paintings, mashed potatoes on a Monet masterpiece: climate activists are taking increasingly daring action to grab headlines -- and it's working.

Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion locked themselves onto oil barrels at the Glasgow branch of an investment bank a year on from the COP26 summit in the city.

Rachel Carson, a scientist and writer from rural Pennsylvania, published Silent Spring 60 years ago. Many credit this book, which meticulously documented the damage that DDT pesticides were inflicting on wildlife, farm animals and people as early as the 1950s, with launching the modern environmental movement.

Dutch activist Jelle de Graaf had been invited onto RTL 4's programme Jinek to discuss the recent wave of environmental protests across Europe when he leapt onto the table and glued himself down

The Boomtown Rats frontman said he would have been among the crowds protesting in central London if he was 18

Members of the protest group Just Stop Oil recently threw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in the National Gallery in London. The action once again triggered debate about what kinds of protest are most effective.

Climate activists defiant as public order bill aims to curtail civil disobedience tactics