Teaching young people about climate change through comics
2 years, 5 months ago

Teaching young people about climate change through comics

Live Mint  

We know young people are “angry, frustrated and scared” about climate change. While these are important components, they overlook the social, cultural and psychological ways people around the world are affected by climate change. Here the teacher notes that climate change is impacting people around the world, “today we are going to explore some of these places”. By showing real people going about their lives, it also challenges patronising ideas about people and places adversely impacted by climate change in the so-called “global south,” which often portrays them as “helpless” victims. The comic also allows people to see the tangible, everyday ways people around the world live with, respond to and adapt to climate change.

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89% Delhi-NCR students express climate change concerns, NGOs call for action
1 month ago

89% Delhi-NCR students express climate change concerns, NGOs call for action

India Today  

A recent report by the Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group has revealed that 89 percent of schoolchildren in Delhi-NCR are worried about climate change, with many rejecting symbolic gestures like celebrating World Environment Day. While 87 percent of students are familiar with the term “climate change”, disparities in awareness persist across income groups. Wealthier students often gain information through …

Access to climate education is a matter of justice
1 month ago

Access to climate education is a matter of justice

Al Jazeera  

Educational systems across the world are not preparing new generations to take action on climate change. Even in places where this is not happening, education systems are simply inadequate to prepare new generations for living in an era of climate change and taking action on it. The Global Education Monitoring Report at UNESCO and the MECCE Project’s recent global mapping …

Universities are teaching students to combat climate anxiety with action
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Universities are teaching students to combat climate anxiety with action

NPR  

Universities are teaching students to combat climate anxiety with action Some universities, sensitive to student anxiety over climate change, are taking novel approaches to teaching the subject. It is about taking a different approach to teaching college students about climate change, one that's personal, says Professor Michael Hoffman. REDELMEIER: In 2021, Hoffman co-wrote a book on how climate change could …

How Is Climate Change Affecting Teenagers?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

How Is Climate Change Affecting Teenagers?

New York Times  

In October, the storm surge from Hurricane Milton flooded 15-year-old Michael Miranda’s street in Land O’ Lakes, Fla. “I feel like a lot of people are not taught about climate,” he says, “and that’s why they keep burning up fossil fuels.” Ajayi doing his after-school chores. “It’s hard to see one country doing so well,” she says, “and one country …

Climate change despair has never been higher — but experts say hope is still possible
2 months ago

Climate change despair has never been higher — but experts say hope is still possible

Salon  

Julie France is a 34-year-old Millennial in Denver, a high-altitude Colorado city theoretically safer than other places from one of the most conspicuous ravages of climate change: hurricanes, such as Helene and Milton, the pair of hurricanes responsible for recently battering the Southeastern United States. Lead researcher Dr. Eric Lewandowski, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University told Salon that “it's …

Lessons in (fifth-grade) chemistry: Earth ‘has a fever’ from burning fossil fuels
3 months, 1 week ago

Lessons in (fifth-grade) chemistry: Earth ‘has a fever’ from burning fossil fuels

LA Times  

What do you think of when you hear the words climate change, Brittany Jefferson asked her fifth-graders. Earth “has a fever” from burning fossil fuels, she told her students, noting that climate change affects poor people disproportionately. Ira Lefelt answers a question in Brittany Jefferson’s class at Citizens of the World Charter School. Introduced to climate change as a teenager …

How do I feel about climate change? Terrified — but action is essential
3 months, 1 week ago

How do I feel about climate change? Terrified — but action is essential

LA Times  

When I was a child, the possibility of apocalypse due to climate change seemed too distant for me to worry about. I never would have imagined that climate change would be an existential threat not in a few centuries, but within our modern era. I had watched a goofy comedy skit on YouTube when I was around 9 that suggested …

Climate change is terrifying. These young people won’t give up fighting it.
3 months, 1 week ago

Climate change is terrifying. These young people won’t give up fighting it.

LA Times  

It’s Friday, Sept. 13. Their anxieties — and their commitment to solutions — inspired my colleagues to fan out across our beats to better understand how young people were grappling with climate change and extreme weather. While many will say that climate change is a “young person’s problem,” I spoke with a group of activists over the age of 60 …

Our climate change challenge
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Our climate change challenge

LA Times  

There’s no escaping the damage we’ve done to our planet. In 2015, almost 200 nations agreed to try to limit global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius — or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit — above preindustrial levels as part of the Paris climate accord. “At this point, it is really difficult to see a path to keeping warming below 1.5 degrees,” …

Opinion: I’m a pediatrician, and I know how climate change threatens children
4 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: I’m a pediatrician, and I know how climate change threatens children

LA Times  

The Park fire burning last week in Tehama County, Calif. Last month, Reno’s neighborhoods fell silent as a severe heat wave brought a string of above-100-degree days — once unheard of here — and forced children indoors, robbing them of normal summer activities. Unlike a literal bomb, however, climate change injures children in insidious and indirect ways, and parents may …

An interview with ELT professional Alan Maley on the importance of climate change education
6 months, 3 weeks ago

An interview with ELT professional Alan Maley on the importance of climate change education

The Hindu  

Over the past decade, numerous climate change disasters, including heatwaves, excessive rainfall leading to floods, and droughts have disrupted daily life globally. In this interview, ELT professional and advocate of climate change education Alan Maley emphasises the necessity of incorporating eco-issues into teacher training and language teaching in general, particularly in English Language Teaching. How can English language teachers adequately …

High school students, frustrated by lack of climate education, press for change
7 months, 2 weeks ago

High school students, frustrated by lack of climate education, press for change

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Several dozen young people wearing light blue T-shirts imprinted with #teachclimate filled a hearing room in the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul in late February. “I just remember seeing my classmates always sweating, and they’d even drench themselves in water from the water fountains,” Vue said in a phone interview, noting climate change is making heat …

High school students, frustrated by lack of climate education, press for change
7 months, 2 weeks ago

High school students, frustrated by lack of climate education, press for change

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The high school and college students and other advocates, …

Empowering students: Innovative approaches to climate change education
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Empowering students: Innovative approaches to climate change education

India Today  

Introducing students to the complex and urgent issue of climate change is not just an educational imperative but a moral and practical necessity in today's world. By fostering climate literacy, critical thinking, and a sense of agency, we empower students to become informed stewards of the planet and active participants in efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Field …

When Cinderella fights climate change | The growing shelf of green literature for children
10 months, 4 weeks ago

When Cinderella fights climate change | The growing shelf of green literature for children

The Hindu  

In his book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention, author Johann Hari puts forth the idea that our ability to focus deeply as a species is being systematically eroded, preventing us from taking collective action against climate change. “When you’re communicating something as bleak and horrible as climate disaster, humour helps soften the blow,” says the Pune-based illustrator. “The …

Climate change in the classroom
11 months ago

Climate change in the classroom

The Hindu  

January 22, 2024 10:12 am | Updated 10:13 am IST While climate change education is increasingly seen as an essential part of schooling, is it helping students cultivate a culture of mindfulness, ownership and commitment around the climate crisis? Though many environment-related topics are discussed in books published for the ICSE and CBSE Boards, there is no learning continuum or …

Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started
1 year, 4 months ago

Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started

LA Times  

Want to So we figured it was time for me to share a list of books I’ve found helpful, for newbies and experts alike. “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” by Amitav Ghosh : Don’t be deterred by this book’s academic appearance. Through meticulously reported examples, she explains why letting go of a “free market” economy is critical …

Why we can’t solve the climate crisis without schools — and teachers
1 year, 9 months ago

Why we can’t solve the climate crisis without schools — and teachers

LA Times  

This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment. “It’s the same for teachers with their students.” Yeghoian is one of the lead authors of a new report — released Thursday and shared exclusively with The Times — exploring how K-12 schools can educate students about climate change, while contributing to climate …

A kid's guide to climate change (plus a printable comic)
1 year, 11 months ago

A kid's guide to climate change (plus a printable comic)

NPR  

A kid's guide to climate change Are you a kid — or do you know a kid — who is learning about climate change? Comic by Malaka Gharib/NPR Print this comic out at home or in your classroom Holly Morris/NPR Why we made this Over the years we've created resources for how parents can talk to their kids about climate …

Think climate change is scary? Try talking to your kids about it
2 years ago

Think climate change is scary? Try talking to your kids about it

LA Times  

My two elementary school-aged daughters started classes this fall during one of California’s most severe and prolonged heat waves on record. In just the last few years, we’ve endured record-breaking heat, had our air fouled with choking wildfire smoke and are suffering another multiyear drought that’s among the worst ever recorded. Because being a father helped me grasp that humanity’s …

The climate films shaping society
2 years, 2 months ago

The climate films shaping society

BBC  

The climate films shaping society Marvel/Walt Disney Black Panther shows a visionary landscape of Wakanda: an anticolonial society powered by clean energy We need a subtler, more varied portrayal of climate change in film than just climate disaster blockbusters, says Becca Warner In a fictional hospital in Seattle, surgeons are sweating through their scrub caps as a heatwave descends on …

240 schools enrolled in climate change programme
2 years, 2 months ago

240 schools enrolled in climate change programme

Hindustan Times  

As many as 240 schools in 20 districts of the state are part of a climate change campaign run by ActionAid and UNICEF. The programme is aimed at sensitising students about the dangers of climate change and ways it can be mitigated, so that the youth can spread awareness regarding the same in the community. Students of a school in …

Climate change is making the new school year harder in all kinds of ways
2 years, 3 months ago

Climate change is making the new school year harder in all kinds of ways

Salon  

We drove slowly down the congested street toward my daughter's new dorm last week, past the throng of local high school students ambling toward their first day of the academic year. "When the body's internal temperature rises above the normal limit," she continues, "you start to sweat more and more intensively, dizziness increases, and you feel extreme fatigue. It estimates …

Climate change activism is no longer enough – it’s time for us to become ‘doists’
2 years, 4 months ago

Climate change activism is no longer enough – it’s time for us to become ‘doists’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. However, it’s not enough to simply worry about rivers running dry or to shake our heads as much of …

Why fighting climate change is a laughing matter (sometimes)
2 years, 4 months ago

Why fighting climate change is a laughing matter (sometimes)

Live Mint  

We don’t laugh enough. But also, scientific research shows the way the media covers climate change — which is often summed up plainly as “doom and gloom” — has the unintended effect of making people feel more disengaged. In 2009, Peruvian citizen Eduardo Gold splashed Andean mountains where glaciers had melted with white paint, arguing it could help replicate the …

For young activists like me, Earth Day means not giving up hope
2 years, 8 months ago

For young activists like me, Earth Day means not giving up hope

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Instead, they’re choosing to virtue signal about being “climate leaders” and trying to distract us with a GCSE they …

There is No Planet B. Climate Crisis is Real, It Must be an Integral Part of School Syllabus
2 years, 8 months ago

There is No Planet B. Climate Crisis is Real, It Must be an Integral Part of School Syllabus

News 18  

Conversations around climate change and the global rise in temperature are now part of our living rooms and workplaces, and not just international conferences and seminars. As we head towards more serious and frequent disastrous events such as droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, it is extremely important that we make climate change education in schools the key to addressing the issue. …

How to talk to children about the climate crisis
2 years, 9 months ago

How to talk to children about the climate crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Adults hear terms like “carbon emissions”, “greenhouse gas” and “renewable energy” every day but may not consider what children, …

How can we help kids cope with 'eco-anxiety'?
2 years, 9 months ago

How can we help kids cope with 'eco-anxiety'?

BBC  

How can we help kids cope with 'eco-anxiety'? "A lot of youth activists have been amazing in taking governments to court," he says, referring to the increasing number of campaigners suing governments and companies to take action against climate change. "I started research with children and young people around climate change 10 years ago – children as young as five, …

Catch them young: School climate education key for sustainable development
3 years, 1 month ago

Catch them young: School climate education key for sustainable development

Hindustan Times  

With COP26 a wrap, young influencers across the world sharing their views through social media and reports galore, climate change and its impact has never been more top of mind for so many people. In India, we are seeing a rise in youth climate organisations demanding greater climate action, climate change education and climate justice. There is an active argument …

Climate education must become a legal requirement in school teaching
3 years, 1 month ago

Climate education must become a legal requirement in school teaching

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Consequently, we’re not equipped with the skills we need to live and work in a world increasingly impacted by …

Children more at risk as climate change disasters intensify
3 years, 2 months ago

Children more at risk as climate change disasters intensify

Live Mint  

Children around the world will face a sharp jump in heatwaves, floods and droughts in their lives compared to their grandparents, researchers said on Monday, with teenagers from Nepal to Australia urging leaders not to turn a blind eye. Children will, on average, suffer seven times more heatwaves and nearly three times more droughts, floods and crop failures due to …

How to change your parents’ minds on climate change - by the Gen Zers who’ve done it
3 years, 9 months ago

How to change your parents’ minds on climate change - by the Gen Zers who’ve done it

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As well as being keen to make personal swaps, Clive believes that it is the government’s responsibility to legislate …

Climate change disproportionately affects women – but they can also provide the solution
3 years, 9 months ago

Climate change disproportionately affects women – but they can also provide the solution

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The World Health Organisation sets out how events like mass flooding or extreme droughts can lead to an increase …

The 8-year-old who fears adults can’t be trusted to fix the climate crisis (opinion)
4 years, 2 months ago

The 8-year-old who fears adults can’t be trusted to fix the climate crisis (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: John D. Sutter is a CNN contributor and a National Geographic Explorer. He sent one of those questions – a doozy – to me recently as part of my new series for CNN Opinion, called “Let’s talk about the climate apocalypse.” “I want to know what I can do to change the world and make it better for …

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