Flying in the face of climate leadership: protesting private jets at Farnborough airport
Residents, campaigners, pollution experts and politicians gathered at Farnborough Airport to protest increases in private jet flights.
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MSPs join activists to call out BP’s corruption of Holyrood
John Swinney, Scotland’s First Minister, seems to be saying the right things. Just earlier this month he condemned “anti-science climate denial” as he said the climate crisis is “one of the greatest global issues of our time”. But is this nothing more than empty words? [1] In one of the largest reviews of corporate lobbying…
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Climate campaigners disrupt insurance brokers’ conference for third year
Extinction Rebellion's Insure Our Survival campaign kept up the pressure on delegates to the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) - Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference - with a colourful, day-long dramatic protest demanding they boycott deals with fossil fuel insurers and fossil fuel projects.
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We are scientists, and we are taking action!
Today sees the free-to-view release of Plan Z: From Lab Coats to Handcuffs, a short but urgent film in which scientists share what compelled them to direct action —and why they are willing to risk their liberty to fight for change. Watch now on YouTube.
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Drop kick Howden out of Rugby!
The pushback against climate-wrecking insurance companies sports-washing their reputations by sponsoring rugby, kicked off when Extinction Rebellion Cymru staged a comedy rugby match before the Wales vs. England Six Nations rugby match at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Wearing snorkels and flippers to signify the danger of increased flooding, activists staged a mock rugby match accompanied by comedy commentary and samba drummers outside the stadium. The creative action marks the start of a series of interventions aiming to drop kick Howden out of rugby.
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Our energy bills are torching the planet
Activists from Extinction Rebellion North and Axe Drax staged a banner-burning action on the day that tree-burning power station Drax announced earnings of over one billion pounds in 2024. The action called for an end to public money to burning trees for electricity. The action came the day after the Climate Change Committee…
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Join XRUK at Lakenheath Alliance For Peace
Join XRUK at the camp organised by Lakenheath Alliance For Peace, culminating in a blockade of the largest US airbase in Europe.
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Protestors blockade Farnborough Airport to protest plans to double private jet flights
Local residents and climate activists blocked Farnborough Airport this week to protest against the proposed expansion of the airport which will almost double the number of private jet flights to 70,000 a year, in a move which blatantly ignores the climate crisis.
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XRUK Strategy 2025-26
As XRUK has evolved, so has our ability to dedicate time and energy to the depth of thought and work that the movement needs and deserves in its strategy. This strategy is rooted in research and evidence, built on the reality of what this movement is at this time – not what it used to…
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It’s 2025… now what?
Lack of action is a death sentence for millions of people, including people right here in the UK. XRUK on 2025, at a glance: Yes it’s 2025, no we are not backing down Yes, we were right to call for net zero by 2025 as per our Second Demand – the evidence is everywhere…
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