Ginger’s Story
I felt climate change when Hurricane Sandy stormed through my city in 2012.
KJ’s Story
Climate change makes me worried about our animals and species on earth and how long they have left.
Brandon’s Story
In my hometown of Beaver, PA, coal and steel production was historically extremely important sectors of employment.
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.
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.
Kai’s Story
Over the years, climate change has affected the manatees ability to survive in their waning habitat.
Sophia’s Story
My nostrils burned a little more with each inhale as I realized that there must be a wildfire somewhere close by.
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.
Tomas’s Story
Suddenly a thought comes unbidden.
This will be gone soon too.
Every year it feels like I’m seeing the trees change later, and when spring comes around and I see either dead trees or trees that have been green for a while I just think about how I might be one of the last generations to experience this.
Aiden’s Story
I wonder where the birds had flown off to–if they’d been able to adapt to the changes. Do they feel any sadness for their previous stepping-ground? Sometimes I think to myself, if we had only listened hard enough and cared hard enough, maybe we too would understand their story.
Rena’s Story
There was nothing left alive in the Schuylkill river. Nothing except us.
Rainer’s Story
Something is missing. It’s hard to place. But then I see it: one lonely floating light. Where are all your friends, little firefly?
Daniella’s Story
Mainly, the sounds of animals have diminished
Ikym’s Story
Through my health and home.
Tristan’s Story
My family has a cabin in Kentucky. When my dad was growing up, they would do the usual drive…
Alejandro’s Story
Bogotá used to be much colder, and with constant rain (volume and frequency)…
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.
Creshmie’s Story
La situation climatique actuelle me préoccupe profondément du fait les effets sont ressentis partout dans le monde.
Mafalda’s Story
My climate story take place in my hometown Ortiga there is a river called Tejo…
Tomás’ Story
I felt that climate change was changing, as I saw a lot of bad news about it.
Quentin’s Story
When I was young there were a lot of biodiversity in my garden, in the warmest night of summer I used to see fireflies…
Rafael’s Story
Because of the droughts, the “new” animals in our lives.
Anna’s Story
In the backyard of my college house in Oshkosh a city on the northeastern side of Wisconsin…
Travis’ Story
This past Thanksgiving, I was talking with my grandpa about how I changed my major to environmental studies…
Emma’s Story
Near my college apartment, there is a small nature preserve. Located behind an elementary school…
Julian’s Story
As a kid, I visited Everglades a lot and just loved the birds, gators, and rare monkeys (the monkeys were…
Virginia’s Story
I spent all of my childhood living less than a 10 minute walk from the Navesink River. It was the place I learned to sail,…
Nancy’s Story
I am sensing climate change via our inventions.
Samantha’s Story
My grandmother was born in Sicily back in the 1940s, she immigrated to the United States when she was eight…
Sarah’s Story
limate change worries me because it just feels like the world is coming to an end slowly. Especially with the glaciers melting rapidly and the ocean…
Nick’s Story
As I have grown up in Southern California, heat has been normal for myself. Whereas for my dad,…
Grace’s Story
I think as a white, upper-middle-class person living in America climate change hasn’t impacted me very…
Camille’s Story
For as long as I can remember I have wanted to leave my hometown in Colorado and explore other places. My family and I…
Mitch’s Story
Within the last ten years the amount of total rain fall across Oregon has dramatically decreased. The lack of rain…
John’s Story
I had the experience to grow up in the South Bay of California, on the coast of Los Angeles. With the beach being my backyard, I have seen large populations of species…
Mark’s Story
In my hometown of Orlando, Florida, it was hot, humid, and rainy all year round and I loved it. It was the very climate that was perfect for frogs and toads. I was blessed in the evening when all I could hear were “ribbits”…
Avni’s Story
Prolonged, increasingly hot & humid summers. Short and warmer…
Nico’s Story
-extreme heat in some areas
-melting of polar ice caps…
Anonymous Story (Villa de Cos)
The seasonal dry period for crops is growing.
Richard’s Story
destructive insects attacking ash and pine trees – no more cold winter to keep them in check
Sophia’s Story
The California wildfires!
Anonymous Story (Sewell)
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly has an interesting climate story involving genetics.
Shannon’s Story
I’ve definitely noticed a difference in timing and numbers of bird migration. Birds are coming back way earlier than they used to…
Justin’s Story
Climate change used to be something that environmental experts discussed in the news.
Laura’s Story
About 15 years ago, we planted loquat trees along our property line because…
Anonymous Story (Pennsylvania)
Fewer birds
Warmer winters, less snow, heavy rainfall, spring bulbs come up and bloom earlier
Hotter summers
Sumant’s Story
As a child, I marveled at the tall pine forests, covered in myriad leaves and full of bird songs…