Extract from The Guardian
Hundreds of thousands of climate researchers, oceanographers, bird watchers and other supporters of science rallied in marches around the world on Saturday, in an attempt to bolster scientists’ increasingly precarious status with politicians.Guardian staff
Sunday 23 April 2017 03.11 AEST
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Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
The DC march, which some attendees guessed attracted 50,000 people, took place with the president in town and was one of dozens around the US. Hundreds of thousands of people in more than 400 locations across the globe were also taking part.
Marchers try variations on a theme as they gather for the start of the march in New York City. Donald Trump’s attitudes to scientific funding and matters such as climate change are the subject of bitter opposition.
A marcher in Amsterdam makes reference, in blazing Dutch orange, to one of many controversies involving Trump in last year’s US election.
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In Berlin, a protester makes reference to Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s infamous insistence that the White House can offer ‘alternative facts’ to the truth.
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Some marchers, such as this one in London, went further, dressing the part as well as carrying messages.
An attendee at the New York City march with a simple message protesting Trump’s handling of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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