Written by: Kimberly White
The Bezos Earth Fund has announced a new funding initiative aimed at transforming the world’s food systems and tackling climate change and nature loss.
The Bezos Earth Fund has earmarked $57 million in food-related grants to support...
Written by: Kimberly White
More than 100 nations have pledged to end deforestation by 2030 in a landmark agreement.
During COP26, leaders from around the globe signed the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, an agreement centered on halting...
Written by: Kimberly White
Microsoft has announced an ambitious new goal to reduce and remove its carbon footprint. The tech giant has pledged to remove more carbon emissions than it creates and become carbon negative by 2030. Microsoft aims to...
Courtesy of Yale Climate Connections
Written by: Brooke Bauman
In 2015, Texas A&M graduate student Christine Figgener recorded a video of her colleagues removing a straw lodged in a turtle’s nostril. The video went viral, inspiring people to take action. Since then, “skip...
Written by: Kimberly White
Montana Governor Steve Bullock started off July with two new climate change commitments. On July 1st, Governor Bullock announced that Montana would be joining the U.S. Climate Alliance. Additionally, he issued an executive order establishing the...
Written by: Deepa Padmanaban
Unprecedented heat waves swept through Canada, the United States, and northern India this year, claiming hundreds of lives. These heat waves are not new: In India, 17,000 deaths have occurred because of heat waves since the 1990s.
A recent global study...
Written by: Kimberly White
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a new funding initiative to boost environmental justice programs.
The EPA will award $100 million to projects aimed at advancing environmental justice in communities disproportionately impacted by industrial...
Written by: Johnny Wood
How do you safeguard a culture that’s disappearing? This question sits at the heart of a new video game that’s helping to preserve an endangered indigenous Nordic culture.
Skábma: Snowfall is a first-of-its-kind video game based around...
Written by: YCC Team
Many everyday choices — like washing your clothes in cold instead of hot water — are an opportunity to help reduce carbon pollution.
A new book called “The Climate Action Handbook” gives people 100 ways to improve...
Written by: Greg McDermid, Joule A Bergerson, and Sheri Madigan
Hidden among all of the troubling environmental headlines from 2019 — and let’s face it, there were plenty — was one encouraging sign: the world is waking up to the reality of climate...












