The Monet painting smeared by paint by environmental activists in Sweden has not been damaged, the Orsay Museum in Paris, which owns the work, said on Thursday.…
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Two climate activists smeared paint on a Claude Monet artwork at the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm on Wednesday. …
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Police in Paris on Friday used teargas against activists who attempted to block the annual shareholders meeting of French oil giant TotalEnergies — the latest standoff involving climate campaigners. The clashes came in a week which saw police raid homes in Germany as part of an investigation into a group that has blocked streets and flung mashed potato at the…
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Two climate activists were taken into custody on Friday for an attack last month on a sculpture by the French artist Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of Art, US officials said.…
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The twisting road that leads to Indonesia’s future capital is lined with dense rainforest and pockets of plantations, punctuated every so often with monkeys enjoying a laze out on the tarmac. Located in eastern Borneo — the world’s third-largest island — Nusantara is set to replace sinking and polluted Jakarta as new Indonesia capital and political centre by late 2024.…
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As the European Union prepares to extend controls on planet-heating carbon emissions to heating and transport, politicians are wary of the social unrest sparked in France in 2018 when the government hiked taxes on diesel, hitting consumers hard. The “yellow vest” protests over the rising cost of living and perceived injustice of making ordinary people pay for climate measures forced…
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From huge floods in Pakistan and Nigeria to heatwaves in India and drought-fuelled hunger in the Horn of Africa, vulnerable countries faced mounting climate disasters in 2022. That has made it much harder for wealthy nations – whose emissions have driven the crisis – to ignore the need for more financial help for those suffering the most in a warming…
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It’s not always easy to make sense of the complex environmental diplomacy taking place at a UN summit billed as humanity’s last hope to save nature. That’s why a scientist and artist have teamed up to build a large, data-driven robotic plant that withers or flourishes depending on countries’ policy commitments: a tangible demonstration of how human actions will impact…
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Most people planning a holiday in South Africa probably think of lions and elephants, deserted beaches and good wine. Few know that the area around Cape Town is also one of the world’s most extraordinary regions for wild plants. Entrepreneur Michael Lutzeyer wants to change the perception of the region, and has created Africa’s first florilegium – an art gallery dedicated to depicting plant…
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December 7 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Blue Marble photograph. The crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned mission to the Moon – took a photograph of Earth and changed the way we visualised our planet forever. Taken with a Hasselblad film camera, it was the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and is…
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