school strike for climate
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‘I Should Be Able to Go Outside’: Why a Utah Teen Is Suing Over Polluted Air
Fifteen-year-old Natalie R. is fed up with the poor air quality in her home state of Utah. But rather than simply complain, she and a group of other young people are taking on who they see as the enablers of this pollution: government officials who continue to green-light fossil fuel development.
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Teens and Unions Take Over Glasgow as Greta Thunberg Declares UN Climate Talks a ‘Failure’
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The leaves of Kelvingrove Park are a patchwork of yellow and green, caught between summer and fall, life and death. A stiff wind stirred the boughs above a throng of strikers who gathered there on Friday to send a message to negotiators in the conference rooms at United Nations climate talks 1.6…
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Greta Thunberg ‘Urgently’ Seeks Help to Evacuate Afghan Youth Climate Activists
Fridays For Future — the global climate strike organisation that was founded three years ago by Greta Thunberg — is in trouble. On Thursday, the Twitter account repping the group’s activists working in the “Most Affected Peoples and Areas” (MAPA) put out a desperate plea begging for anyone with resources to help evacuate members currently…