The Arctic 30 have finally returned home after they were granted amnesty by the Duma (Russian parliament) following a global campaign to free them.

The City of Cape Town has received tens of thousands of messages for the late Nelson Mandela, after it set up various channels that members of the public could use to leave messages about what Madiba meant to them.

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All but four of the Arctic 30, arrested aboard a Greenpeace icebreaker two months ago, have now been granted bail by St Petersburg courts, and 11 of the 30 have actually been released.

The Netherlands asked an international court on Wednesday to order Russia to release 30 people detained during a Greenpeace protest against oil drilling in the Arctic at a tribunal Moscow refused to attend.

Die waghond vir burgerregte, AfriForum, is gekant teen en bekommerd oor die moontlike gevolge van skaliegasontginning in Suid-Afrika.

Our government seems determined to ensure that fracking for shale gas will happen in this country, despite years of resistance and much evidence of the dangers this action would hold for the environment and for our nation.

Ghana was represented in the second planned march against agricultural giant Monsanto which took place around the world last weekend.

Appeals for bail by lawyers for Phil Ball and Kieron Bryan, both British citizens, were refused last week by the Regional Court of Murmansk.

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As the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its latest mega-report, averring a 95 percent certainty that humans are heating up the planet, there’s an unavoidable subtext: The growing number of humans on the planet in the first place.

Syria's bloody war has been fuelled by rivalry between Iran, Assad's main backer, and the US and their allies. Now there is a glimmer of hope for a peaceful way to stop these massacres.

Australia’s legendarily irresponsible mining industry has a new plan: while the planet faces catastrophic climate change, build the world’s largest coal mining complex, and then build a shipping lane to that port straight through the greatest ecological treasure we have - the Great Barrier Reef!

The country's Interfaith community lost a founding member in the beloved Father John Oliver, who passed away unexpectedly last week.

AfriForum is concerned about possible mining in Pretoria North, as it will impact directly on various residences and smallholdings in the vicinity. These developments might have a detrimental effect on human and environmental health.

“We travel far to come baptise people here because this is natural water, with spiritual power."

The citizens of Istanbul now appear in control of Gezi Park, protecting one of the last and most treasured green spaces in Istanbul from conversion to a shopping mall. The protest, which began to save the park, became a rally for genuine democracy in Turkey.

Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors has some pretty loyal fans, and that could help the automaker win the right to bypass dealerships and sell directly to consumers. .

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sought to end the protests against his government with a mixture of duplicity and brutality.

An international protest planned for this weekend against biotechnology company Monsanto is slated to span six continents and include demonstrations in dozens of countries around the globe.