Kristin Rodrigo, Canada, 22 years old On the bright, sunny morning of April 13th, I made my way to the downtown core of Toronto, Canada to face the tallest free-standing building in […]
Step Up For Nature!
Keeping Our Coastlines Clean
Josephine Verhaaren, Whanganui District Council Youth Committee, New Zealand Mā tātou katoa e atawhai i te tāonga ao turoa – Everyone has a role to play in conservation – a whakatauki that […]
Protecting Our 75%
Wenyi Soon, Takapuna Grammar School, New Zealand Situated on the North Shore, students at Takapuna Grammar often frequent at our surrounding beaches – Narrow Neck, St Leonards and Takapuna Beach. These locations […]
Is Plastic one of our enemies or one of our greatest creations?
Jasmine Partridge and Myah Harlick, South New Brighton School, New Zealand “Water & air, the two essential fluids on which all life depend upon, have now become global garbage cans.” said Jacques […]
Suffocating in a Plastic World
Indiana Bell, Cobham Intermediate School, New Zealand The man used me for his eyes and his memories, to record details that he could look at and remember. He used me for a […]
Citizen scientists pair with UBC researchers to investigate tracking pollution with beehives
Written by Allison Gacad and originally published on The Ubyssey Julia Common, co-founder of the Vancouver-based non-profit Hives for Humanity, was first teased in 2014 with the question, “how do you know […]
What a Waste
St Fillan’s PS, Scotland We decided to look at the massive problem in our oceans – the five gyres present. We then explored, at a community level, what we could do to […]
The rise of the student climate revolution
Written by Allison Gacad, CanadaAllison Gacad is a freelance journalist and third year Global Resource Systems student at the University of British Columbia. In France, a conservative political economy was toppled by […]
Young Reporters for the Environment 