
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…
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…
Ohio was home for the first eighteen years of my life. Since leaving it, however, it has become refuge.
Bogotá used to be much colder, and with constant rain (volume and frequency)…
I see the climate changing in winter, three weeks ago there was little snow on the ground…
Growing up in Seattle, I remember playing outside in all seasons. Seattle’s temperate, rainy climate was…
I find myself becoming increasing reliant on air conditioning in summer and are scared of sudden power outage…
I’ve sensed the change through the summers getting hotter and hotter on the tennis court. Each summer it became unbearable…
Beijing used to have a colder winter than Philadelphia. I felt that it has been warmer and warmer since my college…
The summers in Toano have become much hotter, with weeks over 100 degrees. Snow in the winter has become…
I felt the temperature is getting higher and found that people wear less during winter. Comparatively, more people…
Sam Leone was born in 1900. After serving in WWI, he became a professional lifeguard in the Rogers Park area of Chicago. Prior to Sam…
My climate story takes its place in the New York. New York City to has always been an attractive place for tourists and visitors. The bustling busy…
Around 7-10 years ago, I remember the winters significantly colder than in recent years. In the past 4-5 years…
While I now live and work in Philly, I grew up in Fargo, ND. My family would often drive between Fargo and Minneapolis to see relatives,…
As I have grown up in Southern California, heat has been normal for myself. Whereas for my dad,…
While attending my last of college in Eugene, Oregon I had noticed this year was different…
Last September– I got back home to Eugene after quarantining with family outside the mainland…
Growing up in Colorado Springs, I’ve always experienced drought. It was normal to my eyes, I knew no different, but I remember 2012 feeling different…
My family has always been busy, my dad is a doctor, my brother is on…
I believe one of the smaller hallmark moments that really opened my eyes to the effects of climate change was noticing how hazy the summer months…
I went in 2016 to visit the “Big Four Ice Caves” in Granite Falls, Washington. I had seen a friend post photos of how beautiful…
In September 2020, Corvallis Oregon, and most of the rest of the state were choking on smoke from several large forest fires. The Lionshead fire…
I have lived in Oregon my entire life (21 years) and recently the warmer weather has become more apparent and hazardous. In the past few…
It was September 8th, 2020. My 20th birthday. I was planning on celebrating with a few friends and going to the river close to my college campus…
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…
Growing up in Oregon I would always hear people talking about how much it rains here. When talking to people from out of state they would refer to Oregon as “the rainy state”…
I personally experienced the effects of climate change through a dramatic wildfire season last summer (2020). I remember being out with my partner at a restaurant when the smoke…
Climate change has become an integral part of my adult life as I have dedicated the past few years…
Prolonged, increasingly hot & humid summers. Short and warmer…
Hot summers, cold winters, heavy rainfalls.
We used to have mild summers and warm winters in Auckland…
-extreme heat in some areas
-melting of polar ice caps…
concerned about rise in temperature within philadelphia…
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly has an interesting climate story involving genetics.
Oregon’s Willamette river is getting lower and warmer.
I visited my home town in central Wisconsin this summer during an excessive heat advisory.
Fewer birds
Warmer winters, less snow, heavy rainfall, spring bulbs come up and bloom earlier
Hotter summers
Spencer Glacier over the course of one year (Summer 2018-Summer 2019)…
Record high temperatures during summer because of more hot days and nights…
It hasn’t snowed for real all winter and we often have bouts of spring weather. As much…
We usually have one snow day a year, and this year it hasn’t really dropped below 30 degrees F. This made me sad…
I remember wearing thick Ugg boots with multiple layers of clothing and a huge thick jacket…
I always loved snow more than anything. The cold and the silence of snow makes…
When I was a kid, the only redeemable thing about winters in Philadelphia was snow. Or, more specifically, snow days
A memory popped up on my Facebook timeline. In 2015, only five years ago, I made post…
Growing up in South Jersey, I’ve spent summers going to the Jersey Shore my whole life. I’ve noticed the beach getting…
Summers are becoming increasingly extreme, making it more difficult…
The channel between the island where I live, and the neighboring island, rarely freezes during the winter…
I’m seeing more yo-yo weather. For example, heavy snow in the winter…
It’s much hotter!