Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press Article by Mark Kennedy, AP News The pandemic can’t stop Ziggy Marley from celebrating the Earth. The son of reggae icon Bob Marley and Rita Marley will be one of the highlights of Nat Geo’s Earth Day Eve 2021 streaming concert on Wednesday. “Any...
U.R.G.E. seeks to make enduring contributions to the lives of children in Jamaica, Africa, and throughout the world. U.R.G.E acts to support education, health, the environment, in efforts to improve the communities where children live and grow, as they are our future's unlimited resource. The...
Photo by Circe Denyer from PublicDomainPictures.net, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Nathan Rott, NPR The forests of today will not be the forests of tomorrow. Rising temperatures, deforestation, development and climate-induced disasters are transforming the very makeup of Earth's forests, new research published in the journal Science finds. Older,...
Photo by Zoheir Seidanloo from Wikipedia, via Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) Article by Michelle Ruiz, VOGUE (via Yahoo! News) In March, on day 48 of the strict lockdown to fight the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, Rebecca Arendell Franks, a woman living in the epicenter of the...
Photo courtesy of PxFuel, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Cihan Dizdaroğlu, The Conversation (via Yahoo! News) Young people have taken part in remarkable political mobilisation in the last year. They have participated in global climate change strikes and demonstrations and protests against ruling elites, corruption and inequality...
Photo courtesy of AFP Photo/STR Article via Agence France-Presse (AFP) China will ban plastic bags in major cities and single-use straws from restaurants by the end of this year in a bid to cut down on waste. The country is one of the world's biggest users of plastic,...
Image courtesy of PxFuel (CC0) Article via Associated Press Malaysia has sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mainly rich countries since the third quarter last year, with the environment minster warning on Monday that those who want to make the country a rubbish bin...
Ziggy has just released a brand new single, "Friday's On", out TODAY on YouTube and coming next week all on streaming platforms! The song is inspired by the youth activists around the world fighting to make a difference for a better tomorrow. The song is...
Image by Mike Corder (AP Photo) Article by Mike Corder, via Associated Press Greta Thunberg, a young activist who has gone from staging school strikes to scolding world leaders about their climate change inaction, was awarded the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize on Wednesday, along with Cameroon peace...
#FridaysForFuture is a movement that began in August 2018, after 15 years old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. She posted what she was doing...