Ginger’s Story
I felt climate change when Hurricane Sandy stormed through my city in 2012.
I felt climate change when Hurricane Sandy stormed through my city in 2012.
Climate change makes me worried about our animals and species on earth and how long they have left.
In my hometown of Beaver, PA, coal and steel production was historically extremely important sectors of employment.
My family huddled up in one room with air conditioning and even with it, it was still 80 degrees in there.
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.
From what I researched, aloe is in a grave of danger, and you guessed it: yes, it’s because of climate change.
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.
Over the years, climate change has affected the manatees ability to survive in their waning habitat.
My nostrils burned a little more with each inhale as I realized that there must be a wildfire somewhere close by.
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.
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.
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.
There was nothing left alive in the Schuylkill river. Nothing except us.
Something is missing. It’s hard to place. But then I see it: one lonely floating light. Where are all your friends, little firefly?
Mainly, the sounds of animals have diminished
Through my health and home.
My family has a cabin in Kentucky. When my dad was growing up, they would do the usual drive…
Bogotá used to be much colder, and with constant rain (volume and frequency)…
In the dam of Castelo de Bode, Portugal. The water level is incredibly low!
I have a feeling of nostalgia. I had the best summers of my life in Atafona.
La situation climatique actuelle me préoccupe profondément du fait les effets sont ressentis partout dans le monde.
My climate story take place in my hometown Ortiga there is a river called Tejo…
I felt that climate change was changing, as I saw a lot of bad news about it.
When I was young there were a lot of biodiversity in my garden, in the warmest night of summer I used to see fireflies…
Because of the droughts, the “new” animals in our lives.
In the backyard of my college house in Oshkosh a city on the northeastern side of Wisconsin…
This past Thanksgiving, I was talking with my grandpa about how I changed my major to environmental studies…
Near my college apartment, there is a small nature preserve. Located behind an elementary school…
As a kid, I visited Everglades a lot and just loved the birds, gators, and rare monkeys (the monkeys were…
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,…
I am sensing climate change via our inventions.
My grandmother was born in Sicily back in the 1940s, she immigrated to the United States when she was eight…
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…
As I have grown up in Southern California, heat has been normal for myself. Whereas for my dad,…
I think as a white, upper-middle-class person living in America climate change hasn’t impacted me very…
For as long as I can remember I have wanted to leave my hometown in Colorado and explore other places. My family and I…
Within the last ten years the amount of total rain fall across Oregon has dramatically decreased. The lack of rain…
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…
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”…
Prolonged, increasingly hot & humid summers. Short and warmer…
-extreme heat in some areas
-melting of polar ice caps…
The seasonal dry period for crops is growing.
destructive insects attacking ash and pine trees – no more cold winter to keep them in check
The California wildfires!
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly has an interesting climate story involving genetics.
I’ve definitely noticed a difference in timing and numbers of bird migration. Birds are coming back way earlier than they used to…
Climate change used to be something that environmental experts discussed in the news.
About 15 years ago, we planted loquat trees along our property line because…
Fewer birds
Warmer winters, less snow, heavy rainfall, spring bulbs come up and bloom earlier
Hotter summers
As a child, I marveled at the tall pine forests, covered in myriad leaves and full of bird songs…