Turkey has made 11/11 a National Tree Planting Day and broke the world record by planting 303,150 saplings within an hour in the central province of Corum. What started with a tweet quickly turned into a nationwide campaign, aiming for 11 million saplings to be planted. Instead, more than 13 million saplings were donated in a very short time.
The Museum of Natural History in New York is a regular excursion for Jody Neal and her two kids. Teaching her children about the environment and how global warming is affecting it, is important to Jody, but she also doesn’t want to alarm them. Awareness about climate change is growing thanks mainly to younger people who have been marching around the world to draw attention to the issue. Schools and the media have been discussing it more, too.
