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The Wider Image: Chocolate prices to keep rising as West Africa's cocoa crisis deepens

Daily News Lesson April 30 2024

Climate effects in West Africa cause chocolate prices to soar worldwide

Learn why weather in West Africa is sending chocolate prices soaring in the U.S. and across the world

Rwanda marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide, in Kigali

Daily News Lesson April 12 2024

Rwanda marks 30 years of reconciliation after genocide

Learn about the path Rwanda has taken after a devastating civil war and genocide decades ago

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Daily News Lesson June 30 2022

Climate change forces major lifestyle changes high in the Himalayan mountains

Massive Himalayan glaciers have shrunk 10-times faster over the past four decades than during the previous seven centuries, according to study

Tourists struggle with the heat as temperatures soar in Rome

Lesson Plan December 16 2021

Lesson Plan: Inventing smarter cities to minimize extreme heat

Plan and design a city block adapted for a changing climate using the power of invention

The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is seen in this undated NASA image

Daily News Lesson December 15 2021

Melting of massive Antarctica ice shelf could rewrite global coastline

Learn why melting ice at the poles could affect coastlines everywhere

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Educator Voices November 04 2021

Take part in the largest climate change lesson in the world

Join a global educational event from the Glasgow climate conference

EU Commission visit of US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry

Daily News Lesson September 24 2021

How nations can help address climate change

Learn about the international negotiations that go into climate change reduction

The warped shape of the stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy is seen over the Warsaw telescope

Lesson Plan June 03 2021

Lesson plan: Design a generator to help meet UN Sustainable Development Goals

Learn about a promising source of renewable energy and make your own sustainable design

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Lesson Plan April 13 2021

Becoming agents for change through the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals

Learn about the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, and how people all over the world — of any age — can help

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg participates in a youth climate change protest in front of the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan

Daily Video September 21 2019

Greta Thunberg on the urgency of the climate crisis

Use this NewsHour Extra lesson plan to learn more about Greta Thunberg and other youth activists' fight against climate change.

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