by News Decoder | 6 Dec 2018 | Environment, Friends Seminary, Indiana University, King's Academy, Thacher School
By Joey Bowling Green roofs, sea walls, electric cars, new shower heads, solar panels — schools and local authorities are resorting to a vast range of strategies to reduce greenhouse emissions and brace for the potentially devastating effects of climate change....
by News Decoder | 30 Nov 2018 | Americas, Environment, Friends Seminary, Student Posts
This is part of a series of articles on climate change by students in News-Decoder’s global network. By Devin Friedrich and Clio Morrison Buildings produce two thirds of New York’s greenhouse gas emissions, and they hold the key to the city’s fight...
by Bethan Ashmead Latham | 19 Nov 2018 | Environment, Podcasts
In this episode of “The Kids Are Alright” podcast, we learn how global warming is threatening crucial links in our ecosystem — sharks and coral reefs. In this episode of The Kids Are Alright podcast, Gabriella Iskra introduces listeners to marine...
by News Decoder | 5 Nov 2018 | Environment, Student Posts, Thacher School, United States
By Daisy Lawrence What’s the size of two shoe boxes and costs $60 million? California’s newest effort to combat climate change. The U.S. state is teaming up with scientists and investors to build and launch a satellite that will pinpoint sources of...
by Betty Wong | 29 Oct 2018 | Economy, Environment
Shareholder activists are not new. But increasingly these stockholders are focused on addressing social issues, from climate change to gun violence. Greenpeace activists demonstrate during a shareholders’ meeting of pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer in Cologne,...
by Sue Landau | 16 Aug 2018 | Environment
Those of us suffering through heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere this summer may suspect climate change is here already. But it’s not all doom and gloom. A tiger in a zoo refreshes itself with ice blocks during a heat wave in Rome, Italy, 4 August 2017...
by Jeremy Lovell | 22 Jun 2018 | Environment
The electric car is here to stay. The shift from conventional vehicles will take time and not be an overnight revolution, but the tipping point will come. A man charges his electric car, Neuenstein, Germany, 4 May 2018 (Sina Schuldt/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images) The...
by Meher Singh | 5 Jun 2018 | Asia, Environment
Pupils at a school in India have joined the fight against plastic pollution with an ad campaign aligned with the goals of UN World Environment Day. One of the ads that the students created. At Ascend International School in Mumbai, India, elementary school...
by James Langan and Luca Pieretti | 4 Jun 2018 | Contest winners, Contests, Environment, Student Posts, Thacher School, Youth Voices
We knew the dangers of California’s drought. Soon the rush of school life muffled the warning. Until a raging fire awakened us from our indifference. The view from Thacher’s Outdoor Chapel features the pristine Topa Topa Mountains of the Ojai Valley. (Photo...
by Emma Juvan | 30 May 2018 | Art, Contest winners, Contests, Environment, Student Posts, United States, Westover School, Youth Voices
Humans are driving climate change — a fact many ignore. So I have captured our changing landscape in photos that show the consequences. Melting map of climate change patterns (all photos by Emma Juvan) This story shared first prize in the photography category in...