Brandon’s Story
In my hometown of Beaver, PA, coal and steel production was historically extremely important sectors of employment.
Christian’s Story
They make me feel sad and upset that local leaders are so glib about impending threat.
Aaron’s Story
It was depressing to experience a beautiful park for the first time and see how fragile the ecosystem is.
Colton’s Story
While there, I learned about how these farmers who had lived there for their entire lives were having to adapt their food growth to an increasingly arid climate.
Wren’s Story
My family huddled up in one room with air conditioning and even with it, it was still 80 degrees in there.
Krypton’s Story
They make me feel sad and worried for my mama’s home, and my family’s home, and if future generations are going to have the same Earth we want them to have.
Mrinalini’s Story
I feel that the rapid urbanization in a country like India has led to many such deforestation activities.
Mya’s Story
From what I researched, aloe is in a grave of danger, and you guessed it: yes, it’s because of climate change.
Aman’s Story
There was no more forest but spans of dried up trees. Ailing, sad, brown – the place I had once loved and known to be full of birdsong and butterflies now ceased to exist. The birds had all left – Delhi was simply too hot for them.
Hannah’s Story
Some people had to swim out of their second story windows in the middle of night, while others went on rescue missions in the boats they kept in their garages.
Justine’s Story
As subway stations swelled with water and cars floated down the streets, the hustle and bustle of the fast-paced roads quieted to an eerie silence; it felt as if the gray clouds of the regularly scheduled rainy season had come back on their own accord.
Jonathan’s Story
However, last year when I returned home for Winter Break from Penn and walked outside of Union Station, the first thing I noticed was how warm it was outside. It felt like spring and I was very concerned right away because I thought about how hot it was the past summer.
Liesl’s Story
This situation makes me really concerned and fearful for older people who do not have loved ones to help them stay safe or rebuild after a natural disaster like this.
Talyah’s Story
I fell witness to the slow destruction of my neighborhood, watching stray animals die, houses and trees collapse, and cars on the road crash all because of Hurricane Ike.
Grace’s Story
As I drove around my hometown, I noticed many stores closed for repairs and tons of damaged cars resulting from tornadoes that struck this area during the storm.
Khue’s Story
For what seemed like forever, the skies became orange and hazy and it became normal to see smoke somewhere. The smell of burning wood and building materials permeated the air.
Sophia’s Story
My nostrils burned a little more with each inhale as I realized that there must be a wildfire somewhere close by.
Gloria’s Story
The game was no longer trying to play your best so you wouldn’t get subbed out, but to conserve your energy under the hot sun so that you wouldn’t pass out from the heat.
Lee’s Story
With the heat rising, the sun would beat down against the pavement and fry us.
August’s Story
The forest was no longer as loud; I used to be able to hear more birds chirping.
Adrienne’s Story
I get frustrated because I know that the weather is not like how it used to be.
Jayel’s Story
Those families that can barely afford bad quality food but still want to keep their families healthy have to suffer and choose what they should prioritize more: health or supporting their family financially.
Naimah’s Story
This increasing climate crisis has robbed me of my mother for most of my childhood.
Maria’s Story
I couldn’t ignore the dark spots in the sand from the refinery’s pollution or the amount of plastic and other debris that littered the sand and the water. I had never realized how polluted the beach was because it was all I knew, it was normalized it in my mind.
Ved’s Story
The mountains are part of spiritual life [across the Indian subcontinent], but mine is a story of when spiritual life is muddled by climate-driven geopolitics. In 2018, between high school and college, my parents decided I should make a pilgrimage to the holiest of mountains, Mount Kailash, which is also sometimes famously called “Mount Meru”.
Kaddy’s Story
My relatives … in Chengdu … used to dry their clothes from the outside air, but because of the smog and increasing humidity, they keep the windows closed as often as possible, and leave the clothes to hang indoors.
Brycinea’s Story
Instead of waiting for the snow, I’ve come to dread the inch of snow that becomes thin ice, not even enough for a snow day.
Sarah’s Story
As the years ticked by, snow has made less and less frequent appearances. Maybe this is just a side effect of childhood nostalgia—the feeling that every weather event, holiday, and outing was just a bit more dramatic and exciting when I was younger—but part of me tells me it isn’t.
John’s Story
The first time I ever climbed that tree, I had two impressions. But the second one is the one that stands out the most in my mind. Trash.
Rena’s Story
There was nothing left alive in the Schuylkill river. Nothing except us.
Nathan’s Story
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Sayaka’s Story
As the weather becomes more extreme I worry for my family who live so far away.
Kai’s Story
Most of the beaches on the entire south stretch of the island were full of foul-smelling and unsightly sargassum seaweed.
Nicolette’s Story
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Priyanka’s Story
I’ve seen the hunger crisis, drought, floods, and gender inequality due to climate change.
Evan & Sydney’s Story
As these problems remain unresolved, the impact will grow exponentially.
Jacqueline’s Story
Some paths along the water, usually 10 or so feet from the shore, were being threatened by the encroaching waves.
Daniella’s Story
Mainly, the sounds of animals have diminished
Mary’s Story
People are uniquely aware of the effects of climate change yet at the same time strangely resistant to change.
Ikym’s Story
Through my health and home.
Emma’s Story
Holding infant-me, my parents huddled on the kitchen floor in order to avoid the windows. Because of the raging hurricanes in the summer of 2004…
Emma’s Story
When I awoke on the morning of September 9, 2020. I was extremely confused. My bedroom was almost completely dark, which was, of course, very unusual…
Nic’s Story
I was born in France but barely ever lived there. However every winter I go back there to celebrate Christmas…
Carolina’s Story
A few days after arriving in Portugal from Brazil for a one-year study period, I experienced a small…
Alejandro’s Story
Bogotá used to be much colder, and with constant rain (volume and frequency)…
Denise’s Story
There is a big water scarcity problem in my city.
Miguel’s Story
Nowdays I have sensed climate changes very much as the way I dress and specially my mood.
Luís’ Story
In the dam of Castelo de Bode, Portugal. The water level is incredibly low!
Raissa’s Story
I have a feeling of nostalgia. I had the best summers of my life in Atafona.
Daniel’s Story
Like a lot of people around the world, I sensed the climate changes because of…