New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers

Global shipping companies have spent billions rigging vessels with "cheat devices" that circumvent new environmental legislation by dumping pollution into the sea instead of the air, The Independent can reveal. More than $12bn (£9.7bn) has been spent on the devices, known as open-loop scrubbers, which extract sulfur from the exhaust fumes of ships that run on heavy fuel oil.

Half of tree species found only on the European continent face extinction, including the conker tree.

It will take vision and a willingness to confront vested interests, but we can restore our trashed ecosystems, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.

Thunberg, 16, says governments have betrayed young people by their climate crisis failure: "You are still not mature enough to tell it like it is".

It was likely the largest single-day climate protest in history, with an estimated 4 million people in 185 countries participating.

Students skipped school, made signs, and took to the streets in more than 3,600 planned strikes around the globe, part of a huge youth-led movement to protest inaction on climate change.

Millions of people from Sydney to Manila, Dhaka to London and New York are marching for urgent action on climate breakdown.

The world climate is in crisis, and it is all our own doing. And we must through concerted global action end our reliance on fossil fuels before time runs out.