Greta Thunberg says world leaders’ talk on climate change is ‘blah blah blah’
Swedish climate and environmental activist Greta Thunberg denounced the world’s “so-called leaders” during a speech at Italy’s Youth4Climate summit on Tuesday, accusing politicians of failing...
Youth Climate Activists Are Fed Up, and We Don’t Blame Them
Hundreds of thousands of youth activists took to the streets for a global climate strike on Friday, including in New York City where leaders gathered for...
Children born today are likely to face seven times more extreme weather events than their grandparents
Extreme weather events are becoming much more common. This year in China, ferocious floods forced more than 1m to relocate; fires ravaged Greece all summer,...
Today’s youth will face ‘unmatched’ climate extremes compared to older generations
People born in 2020 will have to face between two and seven times more extreme climate-related events over their lifetimes than people born in 1960,...
Greta Thunberg has spent three years raising the alarm on the climate crisis
Greta Thunberg has made the ultimate sacrifice for the Guardian. She’s allowed us to turn her into a human oil spillage. The treacly black stuff...
Young people’s climate anxiety revealed in landmark survey
Climate change is causing distress, anger and other negative emotions in children and young people worldwide, a survey of thousands of 16- to 25-year-olds has...
4 Bay Area teens win 2021 International Young Eco-Hero awards for strategies to fight climate change
Fremont teenager Ganesh Kumar decided to target plastic pollution and won a notable mention for his do-it-yourself, biodegradable straw.
Activists ‘born into the climate crisis’ face another challenge: Fear of the future
Mitzi Jonelle Tan was a child when a typhoon knocked out the electricity at her home in Manila for days. “When it was finally safe...