Sustainability and environmental protection has always been a crucial movement to the Marley household, and Ziggy Marley takes these principles into action in his effort to protect the Amazon Rainforest and fight agains the existing threats to the indigenous caretakers of the land. Ziggy has...
Photo by Jürgen Jester via Pixabay Article via WSKG The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere reached 419 parts per million in May, its highest level in more than four million years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Monday. After dipping last year because of...
Photo by Circe Denyer from PublicDomainPictures.net, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Nathan Rott, NPR The forests of today will not be the forests of tomorrow. Rising temperatures, deforestation, development and climate-induced disasters are transforming the very makeup of Earth's forests, new research published in the journal Science finds. Older,...
Photo from https://pxhere.com/en/photo/604358, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press (via Yahoo! News) An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth. As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. Smog stopped choking New...
Photo by Zoheir Seidanloo from Wikipedia, via Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) Article by Michelle Ruiz, VOGUE (via Yahoo! News) In March, on day 48 of the strict lockdown to fight the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, Rebecca Arendell Franks, a woman living in the epicenter of the...
Photo courtesy of PxFuel, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Cihan Dizdaroğlu, The Conversation (via Yahoo! News) Young people have taken part in remarkable political mobilisation in the last year. They have participated in global climate change strikes and demonstrations and protests against ruling elites, corruption and inequality...
Photo Credit: Public Domain Image Article by Derek Walker, The Hill The first step in achieving a goal is setting a target. For the challenge of climate change, congressional leaders are increasingly finding consensus around a mark of zero — that is, net-zero climate pollution. Zero does...
Photo via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) Article by Aris Folley via The Hill Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for a second year in a row. According to The Associated Press, two lawmakers from Sweden, Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling,...
Image by Mike Corder (AP Photo) Article by Mike Corder, via Associated Press Greta Thunberg, a young activist who has gone from staging school strikes to scolding world leaders about their climate change inaction, was awarded the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize on Wednesday, along with Cameroon peace...
Image by tikhonnetpro, from Pixabay Article by Sophie Lewis, via CBS News Italian students in every grade are about to get schooled in the climate emergency facing our planet. Learning about climate change and sustainability will soon be compulsory for all students across the country, education minister...