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...
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...
By SOFIA OLIVO, age 11, CANDACE RUSSELL, age 11, GISSELLE MARIN, age 13, Introduction by KEREN ABRAMSON, age 10 Illustrations by IVETTE SALOM Warm surface water in the Pacific Ocean changes the air pressure and leads to unusually wet and dry weather conditions across...
By CANDACE RUSSELL, age 11 Newly cleared rainforest land burns at a palm oil plantation in Indonesia. PHOTO: Rainforest Action Network Raging fires have been erupting in Indonesia since June 2015. These fires are started by farmers and big corporations to clear land...
By SABAT ALI, age 9 PHOTO: Friends of the Earth International COP21 was a climate change conference held in Paris from November 30 to December 12, 2015. World leaders met to agree to limit the burning of fossil fuels. At the conference, world nations agreed to limit...
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