All aboard the climate train! Scientists join activists for COP26 trip

Amsterdam Central Station is almost empty when I arrive just after 7 a.m. on a slightly rainy Saturday. It is 30 October, the day before the United Nations COP26 climate summit officially starts in Glasgow, UK. I am here to take a train chartered for the journey there, alongside hundreds of activists — many of them scientists — who are hoping to send a message to world leaders.

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