Climate Warriors Target Giant Coal Terminal in Australia

Environmental campaigners from a dozen Pacific island nations have used traditional canoes to try to blockade the world’s largest coal port at Newcastle in eastern Australia. The Pacific Island Climate Warriors have come to Australia with a warning that any expansion of coal mining will further damage the islands of the South Pacific. The activists say greenhouse gas emissions are making their island homes more vulnerable to drought, more intense cyclones and erosion. A spokesman said the...

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