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...
by Nelson Graves | 18 May 2018 | Contests, News Decoder Updates, Youth Voices
Students at King’s Academy, Westover School, La Jolla Country Day School and Thacher School have won News-Decoder’s writing contest. Photo by Madeleine Steele Students at King’s Academy in Jordan, Westover School in Connecticut and La Jolla Country...
by Sue Landau | 10 Aug 2017 | Uncategorized
More and more studies are predicting climate disaster. Will the prophesies of doom lead to action to curb global warming — or to reckless hopelessness? A plane drops fire retardant over a forest on the outskirts of La Londe-les-Maures, France, 26 July 2017 (AP...
by Sue Landau | 6 Dec 2016 | Environment, Politics, United States
By Sue Landau Just when the world had taken a huge step forward in the life-or-death fight against global warming, a man who has denied climate change was elected U.S. president. Donald Trump’s victory cast a pall over the recent United Nations Climate...
by Ashleigh Sherman and Emma Harrison | 9 Dec 2015 | Americas, Environment, Indiana University, United States
As global negotiators hammer out an unprecedented climate accord in Paris, most Americans don’t believe climate change is a very serious problem. (Flickr/Russell Darling) Severe storms. Extreme precipitation. Melting ice caps. Rising sea levels. Health problems....