Warren’s Story
Cape Town is usually very rainy but a few years ago they experienced intense water shortages.
Cape Town is usually very rainy but a few years ago they experienced intense water shortages.
My family huddled up in one room with air conditioning and even with it, it was still 80 degrees in there.
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.
My nostrils burned a little more with each inhale as I realized that there must be a wildfire somewhere close by.
The forest was no longer as loud; I used to be able to hear more birds chirping.
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”.
It is nostalgic to think about some of the sounds I heard as a child but it is mainly worrying and disappointing to see the changes that are happening due to climate change, and the way the situation is being ignored
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I have seen first hand how fast climate change has begun to exponentially make itself known.
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…
Bogotá used to be much colder, and with constant rain (volume and frequency)…
There is a big water scarcity problem in my city.
In the dam of Castelo de Bode, Portugal. The water level is incredibly low!
Because of the droughts, the “new” animals in our lives.
I see the climate changing in winter, three weeks ago there was little snow on the ground…
Stressed, overwhelmed, angry, fearful, ambitious, challenged, activated
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,…
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…
Within the last ten years the amount of total rain fall across Oregon has dramatically decreased. The lack of rain…
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…
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”…
Climate change has become an integral part of my adult life as I have dedicated the past few years…
Storms feel stronger – more rain. Stress about changes ahead…
The seasonal dry period for crops is growing.
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly has an interesting climate story involving genetics.
Oregon’s Willamette river is getting lower and warmer.
Drought caused our well to run dry for over a month.
Los Angeles has been experiencing severe drought for the better part of this decade…
At home, more than 60% of our economy is based on agriculture but with the changing…
More floods + droughts destroying our farming lands…
Much more intense summers, changing habitats for native trees…
I can’t think of a single place that isn’t being impacted by climate change. It more subtly…