The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC WGII AR6) was released on February 28, 2022: a 3,675-page tome that focuses on climate “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”. Governments around the world use this report as the authority on how climate change impacts nature and humanity.

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The Wildfires in Turkey

Since the 28th of July, there have been over 120 wildfires reported in the southwest region of Turkey in just a week (as of august 4th, 2021). Turkish authorities announced that several of the fires at those areas are under control but social media, videos and live footage from the affected villages across the shows that the majority of the southwest peninsula in the country is still burning and doesn’t seem to be on its way to stopping until the last tree is nothing but ashes.

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COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis Affect Women Disproportionately

In celebration of Women’s History Month and as we approach the one year anniversary of a worldwide pandemic, we must acknowledge the extra labor that women have contributed during COVID-19 and the widening gender gap caused by the pandemic.

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TED Talk: The people who caused the climate crisis aren't the ones who will solve it

“Frontline communities are the only ones who can get us out of this crisis.”

This past December, Angela Mahecha, Program Director of the Environmental Justice Fellowship Program, participated in TED Salon: Fairness and Our Future where she shared firmly and unapologetically that frontline communities, those most impacted by the climate crisis, are the only ones who can lead us towards a just future.

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