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By Julia Rosen
Earth Day is Thursday, and, as in recent years, climate change will be the main focus. Youth activists from all over the world met online this week to create a list of demands for world leaders. And President Biden will host those leaders at a virtual summit meeting aimed at reasserting American leadership on climate.
But even though the climate conversation is going strong, people of all ages still have questions. So, for Earth Day, we’re trying to help.
For young readers, we created an illustrated, interactive experience that shows how we got where we are today and what the future might hold. Long story short: it depends on us. If we keep going with business as usual, things will get bad. But if we take swift action, we can create a better future. The choice is ours.
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by Gabriel Popkin (Washington Post) President Biden says farmers can adopt agricultural methods that
help fight climate change. Maryland farmer Trey Hill has been trying. … As the winter cover crops grow, they will feed microbes and improve the soil’s health, which Hill believes will eventually translate into higher yields of the crops that provide his income: corn, soybean and wheat.
But just as importantly, they will pull down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the ground. Hill is at the cutting edge of what many hope will provide not just a more nature-friendly way of farming, but a powerful new climate solution.
Though 2020 was dominated by big, hairy societal change, science and technology took significant steps forward. (File photo: Thomas Kinto/Unsplash)
This time last year we were commemorating the end of a decade and looking ahead to the next one. Enter the year that felt like a decade all by itself: 2020. News written in January, the before-times, feels hopelessly out of touch with all that came after. Stories published in the early days of the pandemic are, for the most part, similarly naive.
The year’s news cycle was swift and brutal, ping-ponging from pandemic to extreme social and political tension, whipsawing economies, and natural disasters. Hope. Despair. Loneliness. Grief. Grit. More hope. Another lockdown. It’s been a hell of a year.