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Pairing 'Green Deal' With 'Just Recovery' in EU, Groups Embrace Tackling COVID-19 and Climate Emergency in Tandem

Young protesters attend the Global Climate Strike in London on March 15, 2019.

For Second Year Straight, Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Without Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement, "the climate issue would not have been on the agenda to such an extent as it is today."

'Stop Escalation': World Leaders Call on Trump to End Warmongering and Resume Diplomacy With Iran

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Unless real diplomacy begins, the risk for confrontation will not dissipate...

With Assange on Verge of Extradition to US, Sweden Drops Years-Long Rape Investigation Into WikiLeaks Founder

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

From the start of the Swedish investigation, said the WikiLeaks Defense Fund, "...

Greta Thunberg Declines Nordic Environmental Award, Decrying Chasm Between Climate Science and Climate Action

In European First, Proposed Constitutional Amendment in Sweden Would Enshrine Rights of Nature

Calling Treatment of Julian Assange 'Psychological Torture,' UN Expert Demands End to US Extradition Attempt

Pompeo Cheers 'Opportunity' in Arctic From Climate Change as America Blocks Resolution Language

Pompeo, in Finland, Calls China Claims to Arctic 'Lawlessness'

Ahead of Global #ClimateStrike She Inspired, 16-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Swedish Activist Fined for Viral Live-Streamed Protest Against Deportation of Afghan Asylum Seeker

Depressed and Then Diagnosed With Autism, Greta Thunberg Explains Why Hope Cannot Save Planet But Bold Climate Action Still Can

'We Have Not Come Here to Beg World Leaders to Care,' 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Tells COP24. 'We Have Come to Let Them Know Change Is Coming'

Teen Climate Activist to Crowd of Thousands: 'We Can't Save the World by Playing by the Rules Because the Rules Have to Change'

'Unprecedented' Heat Wave Fueling Arctic Fires Made More Than Twice as Likely by Climate Change: Analysis

'It Is Not Right to Send People to Hell': Swedish Woman's Plane Protest Stops Deportation of Afghan Refugee

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Never Forget: Grandson of Auschwitz Commandant Fights For A Nazi-Free Europe

With upcoming elections in a Europe beset by rising neo-Nazism, a new campaign by Swedish Social Democrats against the resurgence has a high-profile leader: Rainer Hoess, 48, the grandson of infamous Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess, who presided over the murder of a million Jews and thousands of others. Hoess has spent years speaking to German schoolchildren about a Nazi influence growing now, as then, because "the social safety nets have been torn, and people are left behind...Hopelessness...