Gateway to Climate Change and the Environment

Room 11 - People and Their Stories

People dealing with the climate and environmental emergency in many different ways.

Environment | The Guardian:
‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’: fleeing climate breakdown, in pictures.
Photographers capture families, farmers and fishers and the landscapes they abandon when forced to leave their homes by extreme weather.
Anger and despair in Sicilian town collapsing after landslide.
Entire sections of the historic centre at risk as the climate emergency reshapes the Mediterranean. People feel the loss of homes and businesses could have been avoided.
Happy Eco News:
Dr Matt Winning, Stand-Up Comedian and Climate & Environmental Scientist. Lecturer, Senior Research Fellow and Stand-Up Comedian. Are we taking Climate change it too seriously? Should we be laughing at it?
Mongabay:
UN honors five climate ‘Champions of the Earth’.
Highest environmental honor for individuals, groups and organizations that contributed significantly towards improving the environment.
Elizabeth Erasito, custodian of Fiji’s parks and places.
Making protected areas work in practice. Parks should remain accessible and grounded in everyday life. Short-term development gains rarely justify long-term damage.
Indigenous women lead a firefighting brigade in Brazil’s Cerrado.
Fire risk is growing and indigenous territories are vulnerable. The Bakairi people have created a volunteer fire brigade, largely composed of indigenous women.
Rhett Ayers Butler:
Obituaries and tributes honoring the lives and legacies of those who worked to safeguard the natural world, especially those whose contributions might be unrecognized.
State of the Planet:
Disaster Preparedness Researcher Das Dores Ngueussie Ngamini specializes in climate modeling. Dedicated to scientific knowledge and climate justice, she helps communities most affected by climate hazards and least equipped to face them.
Third Act:
Mary Beth Naim and the Great Climate March across Ohio.
A citizens’ march to experience natural beauty and observe and report on damage by the unchecked expansion of data centers and fracking.

Stunning film about a scientist's journey after one of his research papers sparks a global movement addressing the challenges facing our planet. Bill Ripple decides it's finally time for scientists to step out and take a stand as the planet tips perilously close to disaster.

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Finding Steady Ground on a Glacier still Standing: A Letter from Aotearoa
By Adam Currie, 2026-09-12

ACCIDENTAL GODS
The Stewardship Freehold Village – an idea whose time has come – with Michael Taite
By everydaywild, 2026-09-15

A New Earth Dawning: Biological Elegance, the health of humanity and OriginEarth with Zach Bush, MD
By Naomi Adams, 2026-10-12

BBC News
The volunteers risking their lives to defuse Indonesia's wildfire 'carbon bombs'
2026-09-06

Honorary degree 'dream come true' for conservationist
2026-09-14

Turning the tides: Could hidden sea power energise our coastal towns?
2026-10-18

The people on standby when a storm strikes
2026-10-24

Conservation news
Women farmers in Sumatra find a gentler way to keep elephants at bay
By Mongabay.com Naina Rao, 2026-09-03

During Nepal floods, decentralized, community-based warning saved lives
By Abhaya Raj Joshi Abhaya Raj Joshi, 2026-09-03

Andean condors: From fear to coexistence
By Julia Lima Lucia Torres, 2026-09-03

South Korea’s ‘sea women’ seek justice after marine habitat devastated by harbor work
By Andrew Jeong Yenni Kwok, 2026-09-04

Indigenous leader Raoni receives palliative care in Brazil after cancer diagnosis
By Associated Press Mongabay Editor, 2026-09-15

Britain’s Prince William reveals finalists for Earthshot environmental prize
By Associated Press Mongabay Editor, 2026-09-18

Honoring Jane Goodall’s conservation legacy and combatting misinformation
By Mongabay.com Naina Rao, 2026-09-22

In Nepal, women seek ownership rights to the lands they tend
By Haven Sager Karen Coates, 2026-09-24

Giraldo Alayón García, Cuba’s ‘spider man,’ died on Sept. 24
By Rhett Ayers Butler Shreya Dasgupta, 2026-10-01

From ‘community-based’ to ‘community-led conservation’ in Kenya: Interview with Dickson Kaelo
By David Akana Malavikavyawahare, 2026-10-01

A year ago today, Jane Goodall died at 91. Her message is more important than ever
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2026-10-01

Women shoulder the burden of expanding wildfires in rural India
By Mongabay.com Naina Rao, 2026-10-02

The Indonesians facing El Nino’s fires have lessons to teach us (commentary)
By Akane Nishimura Erik Hoffner, 2026-10-06

Indigenous activist Kynan Tegar on Indonesia’s fires, and defending the Earth
By Basten GokkonMike DiGirolamo Mikedigirolamo, 2026-10-06

How much nature is left? Interview with Nature Data Lab’s Karl Burkart
By Abhishyant Kidangoor Abhishyantkidangoor, 2026-10-09

The uplifting story of one of Zimbabwe’s pioneering women rangers
By David Akana Karen Coates, 2026-10-16

Water, carbon & the ‘tree of life’: Interview with Venezuela’s guardian of morichales
By Diego Ávila Muskus Karen Coates, 2026-10-22

Two Indigenous Brazilians denied their language interpreter at election voting booth
By Shanna Hanbury Bobbybascomb, 2026-10-23

Mozambique safari operator wins conservation award at COP17
By David Akana Bobbybascomb, 2026-10-23

Environment | The Guardian
‘It’s my duty to tell the truth’: UN chief on the climate crisis, capitalism and reasons to be hopeful
By Fiona Harvey Environment editor, 2026-09-22

‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired Australian couple who took on a coal giant and won
By Lisa Cox Environment and climate correspondent, 2026-10-07

I work for a major insurer. Much of my industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis | Anonymous
By Anonymous, 2026-10-14

‘You need persistence’: the Norfolk couple who took on environmental regulators three times – and won
By Patrick Barkham, 2026-10-24

Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam
EHC Welcomes Three New PhD Candidates
By jelmer, 2026-09-16

Fairventures Worldwide
Moses Mumbere : Growing a Future with Agroforestry in Bwera
By Kezia Weikinger, 2026-10-13

Greenpeace International
11 Greenpeace activists face unprecedented 5-year punishment in Spain for peaceful climate action
By Greenpeace International, 2026-09-23

Sagunto 11 acquitted: Spanish court rejects prosecution bid to criminalise peaceful protest
By Greenpeace International, 2026-10-06

Happy Eco News
How Restoring Nature Helped Shape Three Future Conservationists
By Grassroots Ecology, 2026-09-23

Take Action Global Brings Climate Education for Students Across 183 Countries
By Mariz Guiniawan, 2026-09-30

Inside Climate News
Breached Earth Boundaries Raise Risk of ‘Irreversible Change’
By Bob Berwyn, 2026-09-21

Learning how Land Speaks
From almost nothing, a River: The story of an ecological pilgrimage along an Italian river, from mouth to source
By Peter Reason, 2026-09-28

Natural Building Blog
A Couple Build a Cob House in Texas
By Kelly Hart, 2026-09-10

Student Dedicated to Sustainable Building
By Kelly Hart, 2026-09-28

The Women’s Natural Building Collective in Portugal
By Kelly Hart, 2026-10-08

Planet Forward
Green Labs helps sustainability pay off at the University of Georgia
By Marley Hinrichs, 2026-10-23

REVOLVE
Rooting for Grassroots
By jacob, 2026-09-07

Skeptical Science
As El Niño fuels drought in Panama, trees help ranchers maintain their water supply
2026-10-21

State of the Planet
Lamont Researchers Receive Major Earth Science Honors from the American Geophysical Union
By Guest, 2026-10-08

Unthinkable
He Quit His Job to Build a University for the Climate Crisis
By Britt Wray, 2026-09-30

Yale Climate Connections
We need to rethink how we talk about climate change
By Michael Svoboda, 2026-09-25

What happens when climate despair turns into action?
By YCC Team, 2026-10-06

‘Weather under Fire’: The climate change film we’ve been waiting for
By Jeff Masters, 2026-10-15

The story of how big business began shaping our understanding of reality
By Michael Svoboda, 2026-10-12

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