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Five Women, Five Countries, Five Questions: Meet Climate Shero Claudia Mellado
Climate change disproportionately effects women all around the world, and everyday women are stepping up to act on climate to positively impact their communities. For Women’s History Month, five incredible women Climate Reality Leaders across the world sat down to answer five questions about the interconnectedness of womanhood, the impact of the climate cris
Five Women, Five Countries, Five Questions: Meet Climate Shero Nosiphelo Nikani
Climate change disproportionately effects women all around the world, and everyday women are stepping up to act on climate to positively impact their communities. For Women’s History Month, five incredible women Climate Reality Leaders across the world sat down to answer five questions about the interconnectedness of womanhood, the impact of the climate land
The IPCC Report Is What the World Needs to Hear Now
There are moments when world events combine to rescue the truth of old lines from mere cliché. The release of the latest landmark report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week was one of them. If you were to distill the thousands of pages of “ Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III Contribution to
Meet Sofía Hernández: A Youth Climate Activist Making a Difference in Costa Rica
Each semester, Climate Reality welcomes a group of US-based college students and recent graduates interested in learning more about the climate movement to join our team as paid interns working with different teams across the organization. This spring, several worked together to develop the contribution below. To help assuage general feelings of climate anxi
Leveling Up: How Video Games Are Inspiring a New Wave of Climate Activism
By Lauren Bills We all need a break from reality sometimes, right? Whether it’s curling up and disappearing into good book or binge watching every episode of “Bridgerton,” allowing our minds to escape from the often-harsh realities of our daily lives is a necessity. For many individuals all over the world, there’s one method of digital escapism that’s been e
Why We’ll Be in Las Vegas This June
Chances are, if you live in Arizona, Nevada, or any other state in the Southwest or Mountain West, you don’t need the latest study to tell you it’s getting hotter . Or that wildfire seasons seem to keep getting worse . Or that lakes, rivers, and reservoirs are drying out, with cities in Arizona now scrambling to find alternatives and one University of Utah o
All I Want for My Earth Day Is Energy Transition
Earth Day is always a problem. Every April 22, we pay tribute to the (truly incredible) first Earth Day in 1970, when an estimated 20 million Americans came out to demand government action on the runaway pollution choking towns and cities from coast to coast. Demands that gave birth to the modern environmental movement and led to the creation of the Environm
Young Innovators Challenge the Future
By Sophia Simmons, World Economic Forum Around the world, youth prepare to gather at Stockholm+50, focusing on nature and resilience, in the lead up to COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. In preparation for these global summits, it is critical that young people have a shared language and mission, and for their collective action and innovation to be supported an
Faith, Fellowship & Furthering the Climate Movement
By Lauren Bills For many climate activists, there is one day in April that feels like our Super Bowl, our championship, and our Oscar-winning speech all in one: April 22. Most everyone knows it as Earth Day, a day that encourages people to advocate for protecting our one and only planet. However, for some activists, April 22 is only the beginning for a week
Don’t Trash the Ironbound
Map data© Google Imagery ©2022, Bluesky, CNES / Airbus, Landsat / Copernicus, Maxar Technologies, Sanborn, USDA/FPAC/GEO By Madrid Rodner In the heart of the vibrant Ironbound community of Newark, NJ, you don’t have to look far to see what injustice looks like. Some days, you just have to look up to see the thick plume of bright pink and purple smoke billowi