By Ocean Heroes Liam Neupert and Elise Malterre Young people are often told that they don’t have the ability to truly make a difference in the world. Not being able to vote can be a very powerless feeling. Youth are discouraged to be engaged in politics because, in theory, they don’t have as much life […]
The latest heat wave that crippled Paris with 109 degree Fahrenheit heat and saw the mercury hit 104 degrees Fahrenheit in the Netherlands and Belgium was caused by humans, according to a new study published on Friday, as the Associated Press reported. The rapid attribution study by a team of respected climate scientists from the […]
Google’s seventh annual meeting of the minds, dubbed Google Camp, is happening at a seaside resort in Sicily and this year, it is dedicated to the climate crisis. Luminaries from tech, business, entertainment and politics descended upon the Italian island to discuss ideas and solutions for tackling the climate crisis at the three-day event that […]
By Kristen Pope Skiing and glacier-viewing are two of the most popular tourist draws in Washington state’s North Cascades communities of Glacier and Concrete, but residents worry that uncertain snowfall and receding glaciers may put their tourism-based livelihoods in jeopardy. To encourage tourism, these Washington communities on the slopes of Mount Baker are adapting to […]
By Andrea Germanos A group of Pacific island nations on Tuesday declared a climate crisis and said that developed nations, in particular Australia, have so far failed to take requisite action to avert the “grave consequences” their nations face, including the prospect of their lands being “uninhabitable as early as 2030.” The statements came in […]
The dome of hot air that broke records in Europe last week has headed north, and it’s melting Greenland at record rates. Scientists say 2019’s melt might be more extreme than the melt that broke records in 2012, when around 98 percent of Greenland’s ice sheet experienced surface melting, The Washington Post reported. If the […]
Water is life. Without it crops won’t grow, clothes stay dirty and kids don’t bathe. And, life without water is a daily nightmare endured in Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare, where more than two million people only have running water once a week, according to the New York Times. The water shortage there means residents ration […]
A bleak new report highlights how the climate crisis is responsible for deaths and will cause more in the coming decades, along with malnutrition, stunted growth and lower IQs in children directly impacted by the crisis, as the Guardian reported. The policy report From Townsville to Tuvalu produced by Global Health Alliance Australia in partnership […]
The newly elected mayor of England’s northernmost region wants to put a UN-accredited climate change teacher in every state funded primary and secondary school, making his region the first in the world to do so, as the London Economic reported. Jamie Driscoll, a Labour-party politician, declared a climate emergency on his first day in office […]
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