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About 10,000 officers a day will be present at event likely to be focus of wide range of demonstrations Thousands of officers will receive public order training in the run-up to the Cop26 summit in Glasgow in November, Police Scotland has said. About 10,000 officers from around the UK will be deployed each day of

Demonstrators attach themselves to railings in reaction to museum taking funding from oil firm for Our Future Planet show Extinction Rebellion protesters have glued or locked themselves to the railings inside the Science Museum, in a protest against the oil firm Shell’s sponsorship of its exhibition about greenhouse gases. Five people have put their arms

Disasters have forced many families to question whether living in the region can continue as the climate crisis intensifies Megan Brown’s family has stewarded several ranches in and along California’s northern Sierra Nevada for six generations. But in the last four years, the Browns have faced unprecedented challenges. Four different wildfires have touched the family’s

Wildfire is a major environmental hazard, yet the social and institutional aspects of wildfire risk management have received limited attention in the literature. Considering future climate change, changing demographics, and the increased demands on fire services more generally, there is an urgent need to better understand the significance of volunteers in emergency management. Volunteering brings

Hot, arid and dry conditions that fuel extreme wildfires have grown more frequent from Pacific coast to Great Plains The hot, dry and windy weather conditions fueling the huge wildfires that have besieged the western US this summer have increased in frequency over the past 50 years, a new study has found. Since 1973, global