by Anoushka Arbhi | 21 Jan 2025 | Environment, India, Student Posts, VIBGYOR, Youth Voices
With temperature inversion and climate change, the joyful meaning of a festival dissipates in the air we can’t breathe. Fireworks during a Diwali celebration. (Credit: Getty Images) This article, by high school student Anoushka Arbhi was produced out of News...
by Shikka Nanda | 13 Jan 2025 | Environment, Student Posts, VIBGYOR, Youth Voices
Would you want a roommate to treat you the way we’ve treated the Earth? It’s time to clean up our act. The Earth, personified, slouches on a sofa. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article, by high school student Shikka Nanda, was produced out of News...
by Arya Sharma | 2 Jan 2025 | Culture, Environment, Student Posts, VIBGYOR, Youth Voices
It’s time we rethink what we buy and wear and toss. As we fill our closets with new threads, the earth is getting poisoned by polyester. One woman models a skirt made out of a magpie inkcap mushroom and another models a skirt made of seaweed. (Illustration by...
by Marcy Burstiner | 3 Dec 2024 | Decoder Dialogues, Education, Environment, European School Brussels, Gimnasio Los Caobos, Kepler, News Decoder Updates, Thacher School
Thousands of world leaders can’t seem to get a handle on climate change. But gather a group of young people together and they’ll show you how to do it. In the month of December, News Decoder is focusing on ways we can bridge divides through the power of...
by Susanne Courtney | 27 Nov 2024 | Decoder Replay, Politics
The island of Barbados has been calling on wealthy nations to fund climate change solutions to mitigate the harm that disproportionately affects small nations. A demonstrator displays hands that read “pay up” during a protest for climate finance at the...