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Activists shattered the glass panes during a protestor outside the Glasgow office block at around 8am on Monday.

The protest is part of Extinction Rebellion and Money Rebellion’s UK-wide Better without Barclays campaign of disruption.

Madrid (AFP) - Two climate activists on Saturday each glued a hand to the frame of paintings by Spanish master Francisco Goya in Madrid to protest inaction in the face of global warming.

They were also protesting about cuts to the local bus services in Bristol

Paris (AFP) - Soup on Vincent van Gogh paintings, mashed potatoes on a Monet masterpiece: climate activists are taking increasingly daring action to grab headlines -- and it's working.

Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion locked themselves onto oil barrels at the Glasgow branch of an investment bank a year on from the COP26 summit in the city.

Rachel Carson, a scientist and writer from rural Pennsylvania, published Silent Spring 60 years ago. Many credit this book, which meticulously documented the damage that DDT pesticides were inflicting on wildlife, farm animals and people as early as the 1950s, with launching the modern environmental movement.

Dutch activist Jelle de Graaf had been invited onto RTL 4's programme Jinek to discuss the recent wave of environmental protests across Europe when he leapt onto the table and glued himself down

The Boomtown Rats frontman said he would have been among the crowds protesting in central London if he was 18