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THIRTY-SEVEN demonstrators were arrested after about 1000 people halted trains in Newcastle yesterday in a protest against the coal industry's role in climate change. Police invoked some special powers, not used in a public protest since the Cronulla riots of 2005, enabling them to search vehicles, although organisers maintained the protest was peaceful.- Dr. Salil Pande

"French Spiderman" Alain Robert climbed the New York Times building in Manhattan with a global warming banner on World Environment Day, June 5. He was later arrested after making it up all 52 stories of the building.

Kingsnorth in Kent is to be the main focus of this year's Camp for Climate Action. From 4th to 11th of August climate activists will gather at the site of E.On's proposed new coal-fired power station, the first to be built in the UK for 30 years.

Noah Richler’s “Rock Bottom" excerpted for free.

Two self-dubbed “greenwash guerrillas” invaded a Carbon Market conference in New York’s Javits Center on Tuesday. The activists from a group called Rising Tide North America passed security posing as convention delegates. Then they rushed the stage just before U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee, a Washington Democrat, was set to speak.

In September several climate action groups joined forces to stage a civil disobedience action at the US State Department followed by a high energy rally all to protest a sham conference of major polluters from around the world called together by President Bush. From emPivot.com - The green-related video sharing website.

America's hottest eco-activist will hit the big screen, based on the book of her harrowing canopy protest. Here's 10 questions with the gorgeous green.

The military junta has been responsible for massacring thousands since it seized control of the country over forty years ago. They have also denied Aung San Suu Kyi her right to govern the country, since her election in 1990.

Uh oh… Let’s hope there aren’t mass mutations.

At this year’s Camp for Climate Action, the Rising Tide network called a Day of Action against Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), a major funder of the LNG gas pipeline currently tearing up the Welsh countryside, major backer of the aviation industry, and the nation’s self-described ‘Oil and Gas Bank’. This is a call for groups and individuals across the land to take local action against RBS on Monday, 15th October.

Greenpeace organizes hundreds to gather on Switzerland glacier for naked statement.

People wearing nothing to protest politicians doing nothing.

The Camp for Climate Change protest has started two days early, taking police by surprise. The Camp, taking place in a field near Heathrow, aims to highlight the problems of air travel, and oppose Heathrow's planned third runway. It will run all week, culminating in 24 hours of direct action on sunday.

Armed police will use anti-terrorism powers to "deal robustly" with climate change protesters at Heathrow. Up to 1,800 extra officers will be drafted in to prevent an estimated 1,500 people disrupting the airport over the period of the camp for climate change. The police have been told to use stop and search powers against the protesters, who have pledged to take direct action on August 18 and 19 but not to endanger life.

George Monbiot writes about the BAA's legal response to the Camp for Climate Change Action that is to happen between August 14 & 21 in the London Heathrow environs. What was a protest for climate change, is taking on a new life as the right to protest is being legislated against.