Suggested Stories: Climate and Environment

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Climate and Environment includes stories about climate change and environmental damage, the communities most impacted, and how people are resisting and building solutions. Explore the stories below to find one that interests you. Then, use this worksheet to support you with writing a letter that asks a decisionmaker to take action.

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Stories for Grades 3 and Up

Story	Media	Publication	Content Warnings
“Environmental Row Over ‘Last Chance Tourism’ in Canada’s Melting Arctic” by Daniel Wizenberg and Berta Vicente Salas	Photo, Text	The Guardian	N/A
“State of Change: How Planting Grasslands Fights Climate Change” by Michelle Lotker	Video, Photo, Text	PBS North Carolina	N/A
“Portraits of Drought: Farmers Struggle To Adapt to Arid Conditions in Kunene” by Mandile Mpofu	Photo, Text	Pulitzer Center	N/A
“I Visited a Beautiful Coral Reef in 2022. What I Saw There This Summer Shocked Me.” by Benji Jones and Jennifer Adler	Photo, Text	Vox	N/A

Stories for Grades 6 and Up

STORY	MEDIA	PUBLICATION	CONTENT WARNINGS
“The Race To Make Cocoa More Sustainable” by Olatunji Olaigbe and Muhammed Bello	Text	The SolutionsPaper	N/A
“Ghana’s Historic Sites Face Climate Change Destruction” by Richard Annerquaye Abbey	Photo, Text	Joy Online	N/A
“The Shade Gap: How Development Is Taking a Toll on D.C.’s Tree Canopy, Putting Human Health At Risk” by Lori Rampani and Francisco Rodriguez	Text	Hola Cultura	N/A
“Only 0.5% of 90,000 Oil Slicks Reported Over Five-Year Period, Analysis Finds” by Leana Hosea and Saroj Pathirana	Text	The Guardian	N/A
“Unmasking the Individuals Whose Lives Bear the Burden of Environmental Injustice” by Nitashia Johnson	Photo, Text	Photographers Without Borders	N/A
“Spain: A Coastal Landscape Dies” by Tobias Landwehr	Video, Photo, Text	Süddeutsche Zeitung	N/A
“Dispossessed by Climate—Iraqi Refugees in Their Own Country” by Susan Schulman	Photo, Text	The Markaz Review	N/A

Stories for Grades 9 and Up

STORY	MEDIA	PUBLICATION	CONTENT WARNINGS
“Draining Cities Dry: The Giant Tech Companies Queueing Up To Build Datacentres in Drought-Hit Latin America” by Laís Martins and Francisco Amorim	Photo, Text	The Guardian	N/A
“Wasting Away: Rampant Pollution Caused Manatees To Starve. Florida Waters Are Getting Worse.” by Zachary T. Sampson, Shreya Vuttaluru, and Bethany Barnes	Video, Photo, Text	Tampa Bay Times	N/A
“In the Deadly Heat, Iraq’s Hospitals Have Become the Ground-Zero Battlefield in the Country’s Climate Crisis” by Susan Schulman	Photo, Text	Daily Maverick	Discussions of violence
“How the Oil and Gas Industry Smuggles Corporate Propaganda Into Schools” by Molly Taft and Amy Westervelt	Text	Drilled	N/A
“How To Recover When a Climate Disaster Destroys Your City” by Mariana Lenharo	Photo, Text	Nature	N/A
“The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef” by Ferris Jabr	Photo, Text	New York Times Magazine	N/A
“Are Carbon Offsets All They’re Cracked Up To Be? We Tracked One From Kenya to England To Find Out.” by Angus Chapman and Desné Masie	Text	Vox	N/A
“Forests in Vietnam’s Central Highlands At Risk as Development Projects Take Priority” by Le Quynh	Photo, Graphs, Text	Mongabay	N/A
“Neglected and Exposed: Toxic Air Lingers in a Texas Latino Community, Revealing Failures in State’s Air Monitoring System” by Alejandra Martinez et al.	Video, Photo, Text	The Texas Tribune	N/A
“In Central America, a Booming Economy Comes At a Cost” by Anusha Mathur	Photo, Text	POLITICO Magazine	N/A
“‘Strategic Bargaining Chips’: Kachin’s Rare Earth Mining Pause” by Emily Fishbein, Jauman Naw, and Hpan Ja Brang	Photo, Data visualizations, Text	Frontier Myanmar	N/A