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'The world is on fire,' Greta Thunberg tells UK climate rally
Known simply as Greta, 17-year-old Thunberg has captured the imagination of many young people with impassioned demands for world leaders to take urgent action.
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Greta met Malala: young activists pictured together in Oxford
Both women shot to worldwide fame after standing up for major global issues: climate change and women’s education.
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BBC to make Greta Thunberg documentary series
The series will see the 17-year-old meet scientists, politicians and business moguls, challenging them to make changes.
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Greta Thunberg puts Africa's climate activists in media spotlight
The continent is home to 17% of the world's population and more than a quarter of its nations, but only accounts for about 5% of the greenhouse gas emissions pushing the planet toward runaway warming.
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Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Swedish MPs
In just over a year, the climate activist, who suffers from a form of autism called Asperger's, has become the voice of a generation haunted by the climate crisis.
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Greta rejects US Treasury chief's degree dig in latest climate clash
'Is she the chief economist? I’m confused ... After she goes and studies economics in college, she can come back and explain that to us.'
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Trump rejects environmental 'prophets of doom'
The US president branded those warning of out-of-control global warming and other environmental disasters "the heirs of yesterday's foolish fortune tellers".
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Thunberg condemns climate inaction as Trump joins Davos
Before the US president's appearance, Greta Thunberg underlined the message that has inspired millions around the world, saying "basically nothing has been done" to fight climate change.
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Greta Thunberg joins thousands at climate protest before Davos
Thunberg is due to address the summit in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos next week with a call on governments and financial institutions to stop investing in fossil fuels.
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Ricky Gervais skewers Hollywood's A-list as Golden Globes host
Gervais, known for his no-holds-barred style of comedy, joked about Hollywood’s lack of diversity, film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused by more than 80 women of sexual misconduct, and the suicide of financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time's 2019 person of the year
The 16-year-old first made headlines with her solo strike against global warming outside Sweden's parliament in August 2018.
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Climate pledges 'misleading', Greta Thunberg tells UN meet
Greta Thunberg told negotiators at the UN climate change forum in Madrid that their promises on slashing greenhouse gas emissions were a world apart from what was needed.
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Thunberg says 'our voices' being heard but not translating into action
Thunberg, who sparked a global youth-led protest movement after striking outside the Swedish parliament last year, said that asking children to skip school to protest inaction by governments on climate change was “not a sustainable solution”.
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The year the world woke up to the climate emergency
Although scientists have warned for decades about the risk to humanity and Earth posed by unfettered burning of fossil fuels, in 2019 their message seems to have finally hit home.
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Emerging from obscurity: 2019's unforeseen history-makers
Here are eight history-makers in politics, climate and humanitarian activism, music and astronomy who were unknown quantities in 2018.
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Coldplay won't tour new album, say want gigs to be 'sustainable'
The rock group, known for songs like 'Yellow', 'Paradise' and 'Viva la Vida,' will release their eighth studio album 'Everyday Life' on Friday.
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Greta Thunberg awarded international children's peace prize
The 16-year-old rose to international prominence last year when she founded the "school strikes for the climate" movement. Tens of thousands of children around the world have now got involved.
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Trump 'so extreme' on climate he's waking people up - Greta Thunberg
The 16-year-old Swedish activist spoke in an interview with AFP on the eve of her departure from North America where she has spent almost three months.
