Good Climate News: The Ozone Layer Is Healing!
By Miloš van den Bosch, age 11 and IndyKids staff
A U.N. report published in January on the Montreal Protocol announced that the hole in the ozone layer is on track to recover by 2040.
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Pole Heat Waves Raise a Red Flag!
Both the northern and southern poles experienced unprecedented heat waves over the same weekend in March. “This Antarctic heat wave definitely changes what we thought was possible for Antarctic weather,” Dr. Jonathan Wille, a postdoctoral researcher in polar meteorology at Université Grenoble Alpes in France, tweeted following the freak event.
“COP26 Is a Failure”: Greta Thunberg Says COP Is Now a PR Event
By Aida El-Hajjar, age 12
The Conference of the Parties, or COP, is an annual gathering of world leaders to discuss one issue that has occupied billions of minds: climate change. This year’s COP26 was held in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021. Currently 197 countries participate in the COP. The conference, which was postponed last year because of the pandemic, was considered “a big check-up” to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
Center Spread: Climate Change, Should We Be Afraid?
Angel Guzman, age 10 and IndyKids staff Have you noticed a change in the weather, the oceans rising and melting glaciers? This is all because of climate change. The recent results of the biggest climate poll ever conducted by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) found that of the 1.2 million surveyed in 50 countries, half …
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Center Spread: This Makes Me Sick! How Climate Change Contributes to Health Issues
By Leah Romero, age 11 and IndyKids Staff Climate change causes all manner of catastrophes around the world, and according to researchers, it can also have a direct impact on our health and wellness. A new study conducted by Harvard University found that one in five global deaths is caused by fossil fuel pollution. “Our …
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Center Spread: Humanity Is Killing Its Co-tenants
By Orik Ehren, age 15 Climate change is one of the most intimidating beasts that humanity has ever faced. Its multifaceted nature combined with a lack of human attention results in a force that spells the demise of an ignorant race and the species with which it shares the Earth. Humanity’s animal co-tenants will suffer …
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Center Spread: Climate Change Is Going to Cost Us Big Time
By Nicolle Berroa, age 13 and IndyKids Staff Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in February and caught everyone off guard. The unusually bitter cold weather put a massive strain on energy demand and available electricity as the infrastructure around natural gas, coal, nuclear and wind energy froze up. Climate change has a profound economic cost …
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Center Spread: “Without Nature’s Help, We Will Not Thrive or Even Survive,” Says New U.N. Report
By Garyelis Lopez, age 14, and IndyKids staff Earth is gradually becoming an unlivable planet. The United Nations released a report on February 18 calling for an urgent response to tackle the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution that threaten our planet. In order to slow down or reverse this damage, we must make dramatic …
Fires in Indonesia Bring Toxic Smoke to Southeast Asia
Raging fires have been erupting in Indonesia since June 2015, impacting the entire region of Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines.
World Leaders Agree to Limit Global Warming
At the U.N. climate talks in Paris, world nations agreed to limit global warming by 1.5 degrees celsius.
