Room 11 - People and Their Stories

Oliver-Ximon Mwiinga (Oli) Joins ACT as an Ambassador
By Barbara Illana, 2025-11-19

BBC News
South Korea's fishermen keep dying. Is climate change to blame?
2025-10-23

Conservation news
Aloyce Mwakisoma, keeper of forest knowledge in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains, has died at 45
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2025-10-15

Mamai Lucille Williams, a quiet symbol of dignity amid destruction, has died, aged about 93
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2025-10-16

Chris Allnutt, negotiator who helped protect the Great Bear Rainforest, died on September 21st
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2025-10-22

Brazil can protect its forests while growing its economy, says Arapyaú’s Renata Piazzon
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2025-11-05

Turning outdoor exploration into environmental discovery: Gregg Treinish and the rise of Adventure Scientists
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2025-11-11

‘Our zeal is unwavering’: 3 environmental defenders share trials, tribulations, hopes
By David Akana Karen Coates, 2025-11-12

From waffle gardens to terraces, Indigenous groups revive farming heritage in America’s deserts
By Justin Catanoso Latoya Abulu, 2025-11-18

Changing weather patterns threaten time-tested houses in Nepal village
By tanka dhakal Abhaya Raj Joshi, 2025-11-29

‘It’s not safe to live here.’ Colombia is deadliest country for environmental defenders
By Associated Press Mongabay Editor, 2025-12-08

Can we create new inland seas to lower sea level rise? Interview with researcher Amir AghaKouchak
By Jeremy Hance Rebecca Kessler, 2025-12-09

UN honors five climate ‘Champions of the Earth’
By Mongabay.com Shreya Dasgupta, 2025-12-10

‘My mother would not be happy with the state of the planet’: Interview with Wanjira Mathai
By David Akana Terna Gyuse, 2025-12-11

Kenyan woman hugs tree for 72 hours in protest against loss of beloved trees
By Lynet Otieno Karen Coates, 2025-12-18

Environmental defenders & conservationists who died in 2025
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2025-12-22

DeSmog
Lessons for Climate Advocates From the Bill Gates ‘Climate Hack’
By Liam Kavanagh, 2025-11-27

Environment | The Guardian
‘I would give all my life for my brother to come back for one second’ – This is climate breakdown
By Bilal Mukhtar, as told to Hannah Lynch, 2025-11-10

My father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, died fighting for a clean Nigeria. Thirty years on it’s time to stop sucking on the dirty teat of the oil cash cow | Noo Saro-Wiwa
By Noo Saro-Wiwa, 2025-11-10

‘She rang me to say there was water coming into the house’ – This is climate breakdown
By Paul Gilbert, as told to Sandra Laville, 2025-11-11

‘The glacier is slowly melting, it’s clearly visible’ – This is climate breakdown
By Saúl Luciano Lliuya, as told to Fernanda Solorza, 2025-11-10

‘We sent the kids home. Then all our cellphones went out’ – This is climate breakdown
By Ryan Kirkham, as told to Raamin Hamid, 2025-11-19

Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘
By Beth Mead, 2025-11-19

‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown
By Toñi García as told to Ajit Niranjan, 2025-11-20

‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’: the people fleeing climate breakdown – in pictures
By , 2025-11-29

Happy Eco News
Where Healing Takes Root: Roots for Resilience and the Power of Youth Gardening
By Jamie D Souza", 2025-12-05

Lonely Conservationists
Maria (Leaks and Showers: My Road to Conservation)
By Jessie Panazzolo, 2025-11-24

HIMA (The Weight of a Wrapper: When Personal Responsibility Feels Like a Lonely Burden)
By Jessie Panazzolo, 2025-12-07

Hari (Pay respect to all creatures: Let plants and wildlife thrive where they can and move yourself for their survival on this shared planet)
By Jessie Panazzolo, 2025-12-12

Planet Forward
Hope & the ‘whole earth’: How one professor links geology to optimism for the planet
By Jenna Outcalt, 2025-10-14

Maria Carmen Erviti, researcher: ‘Extreme weather events serve as constant reminders of climate change in the media’
By Mario Castroviejo, 2025-10-14

At the crossroads of tides: Teaching climate resilience on New Jersey’s coast
By Shaniya Utamidata, 2025-10-21

Brazilian women make a stand for water at COP30
By Alexia Massoud, 2025-11-26

REVOLVE
Beyond the Point of No Return
By Ahmetcan Uzlasik, 2025-11-12

Governing Earth’s Tipping Points
By Ahmetcan Uzlasik, 2025-11-27

State of the Planet
Nine Climate School Researchers Honored by Leading Scientific Organizations
By Columbia Climate School, 2025-10-21

Climate Finance Student Chimi Dorji Hopes to Represent the Global South on the World Stage
By Olga Rukovets, 2025-10-23

Fight Food Waste This Holiday Season
By Guest, 2025-11-25

Swimming Toward a Constitutional Right for Nature
By Columbia Climate School, 2025-12-02

The Sights and Sounds of COP30
By Guest, 2025-12-05

COP30 Is Over. But for the World’s Most Vulnerable, the Crisis Is Ongoing.
By Guest, 2025-12-04

The Angry Army
The town on the banks of the Nile that turned floods into fortune | Global development
By angryarmy, 2025-12-11

The CLEO Institute
Shaping a Sustainable Tomorrow: Landscape Architecture Student Amaia Morgan Aims to Advance Resilient Design
By CLEO, 2025-12-17

Yale Climate Connections
The ecologist who serves up climate science on a plate
By Michael Svoboda, 2025-10-27

The anthropologists holding funerals for the world’s dying glaciers
By Bridgett Ennis, 2025-10-30

Millions have fled weather disasters, but they had few champions at COP30
By Yessenia Funes, 2025-12-02

You don’t need a fancy title to be a climate leader at work
By YCC Team, 2025-12-11

Sanket Jain wins gold medal from the United Nations Correspondents Association
By Pearl Marvell, 2025-12-18

Extreme heat turns work deadly
By Sanket Jain, 2025-12-18

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