Greta Thunberg

By Lauren Rearick Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, directly addressed politicians and business leaders attending the Austrian World Summit on Thursday, May 28. There, she stood up to people over twice her age and told them they hav…

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is urging world leaders to acknowledge that global warming "is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced." Thunberg told political and business leaders at a conference in Austria on Tuesday that it's their job to info…

In this edition of SPOTM: Millie Bobby Brown, Greta Thunberg, a drag kid and Netflix doing its best to put the one-eye sign in our faces. The 16-year-old Swedish girl Greta Thunberg is currently (as media puts it) one of the hottest names in global politics.…

In an era where students take to the streets every Friday to protest against climate change, young voters have precipitated a seismic shift in German politics. Sunday's European Parliament elections saw the Green Party catapulted to second place in the Germa…

May 27th, 2019 by Steve Hanley  On Friday, May 24, over a million young people gathered in some 1,600 locations in 125 countries to plead for effective action on climate change. The global demonstrations were inspired by Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old from…

BRUSSELS, Belgium The rise of the Greens, the "Greta effect" of a young Swedish climate activist and the entry of French President Emmanuel Macron's party into the European Parliament are likely to result in a more defensive and climate-oriented EU trade poli…

A European election drubbing has served as a harsh wake-up call for Germany's leaders that young voters fear climate change and are furious about the government's glacial response to it. A surge of support, helped by the Fridays for Future protest movement, …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The rise of the Greens, the “Greta effect” of a young Swedish climate activist and the entry of French President Emmanuel Macron’s party into the European Parliament are likely to result in a more defensive and climate-oriented EU trade p…

It's true that the young Swedish climate campaigner may not have been the single biggest factor in the Greens' remarkable turnaround in their fortunes at this year's local elections. But her highly visible and hugely popular attempts to get young people, and …

The helicopter Sofia E. Kjellman uses to reach her research site in the Arctic archipelago Svalbard.Credit: Lis Allaart A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to some people about my work, and a friend of a friend called me a hypocrite. How can I, as a PhD stu…