A prominent US lawyer has died after setting himself on fire in a New York park in a protest against climate change. In a suicide note found nearby, Mr Buckel wrote that he had immolated himself using fossil fuel to symbolise what he said was the damage human beings were doing to the Earth. Buckel was well known for his legal work on behalf of gay, lesbian and transgender people and later worked with several environmental groups. "Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather," the lawyer said in his suicide note, quoted by the New York Times. Lambda's Camilla Taylor described Mr Buckel as a "legal visionary".

Source: The Star April 15, 2018 09:30 UTC