“It’s really important for young people to take ownership of the planet, to individually and collectively get involved.” -Astronaut and physicist John Grunsfeld in The Power of Us  82-year-old retired Chicagoland engineer Jim Goodman and his wife Annie are alarmed…

Children from across the world seek to bring accountability to the climate crisis.

Gen Z has spoken, are world leaders listening?

On September 20th, about 250,000 protesters gathered in Lower Manhattan for the New York City Climate Strike to call for global action against the climate crisis. The NYC strike was just one of thousands happening around the world that same…

Just days before the UN Climate Action Summit, over 250,000 people gathered for the global climate strike in New York City, where local climate activists such as Alexandria Villaseñor and global climate figure Greta Thunberg addressed the crowd. Here are some images from New…

“GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE:” PREVIEW

BY: Marlene Cimons Lorenzo de Simone, 13, isn’t old enough to vote, but he’s old enough to lobby Massachusetts state lawmakers, seeking their support for a carbon pricing bill that would impose fees on fossil fuel companies. The Boston 8th grader plans…

BY: Nina Joung When did climate change activism become something you associated with young people? Was it when 21 youth plaintiffs from the ages of 11 to 22 filed a lawsuit against the government for failing to protect its youngest constituents?…

When a report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) starts a countdown clock stating that we have "12 years to slow down the effects of climate change," it's hard to not play out some end-of-the-world scenarios in…