Environmental activist Thunberg arrives off the coast of New York

TEENAGE climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg arrived off the coast of New York state today after a 15-day Atlantic crossing on a zero-carbon yach

NGO rescue fleet demands Europe resume rescue missions after 40 people are feared to have drowned

THE civil migrant rescue fleet demanded that the EU resume its search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean today as about 40 refugees were fe

Bolsonaro blames indigenous protection policies for limiting Brazil's economy as Amazon burns

The Co-ordination of Indigenous Organisations of the Brazilian Amazon vows to protect their homes from the country's far-right government

Malta allows the Ocean Viking to disembark its 356 rescued migrants

European states must take a hard look at the role they are playing in trapping people at sea, says MSF's project co-ordinator on board the ship

Doctors demand British government help stranded migrants who fled Libya

Civil fleet captain turns down Paris's ‘hypocritical honour’

Pia Klemp rejects the Medal of the City of Paris due to the city's treatment of refugees, saying: ‘It is time we cast all medals into the spearheads of revolution’

Nine migrants on the stranded Open Arms ship jump overboard in attempt to swim to Lampedusa

Every European person should take Salvini's treatment of the Open Arms and the people on board as a personal offence, Sea Watch says

Open Arms says conditions on board too dire to disembark migrants ‘1,000 miles away’

Founder Oscar Camps turns down Spanish government's offer to sail the migrants to the Balearic islands

Sole survivor of Mediterranean dinghy crossing says passing ships ignored their calls for help

The civil fleet hits out at Europe's criminalisation of non-state rescues

Open Arms migrant rescue ship within sight of land but still denied a port

An Italian court overturned Salvini's ‘security decree,’ which prevented the civil fleet from entering the country's waters