India’s Yamuna River Breathes as Pollution Drops

June 9, 2020 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Due to COVID-19 lockdown measures in India, factories are closed. Prior to the lockdown, plants dumped waste into the river. Now that they are shut, the Yamuna River and other rivers in India are clean again, with fish, turtles, and birds. Let’s hope Indians grow to appreciate the clean water and beauty of the river sufficiently enough to protect it from future damage.

Fighting Plastic Pollution: The Inspiring Story of Two Indonesian Sisters

November 21, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Sisters Melati Wijsen, an 18-year-old from Bali who five years ago launched an NGO called “Bye Bye Plastic Bags” with her younger sister Isabel, with the aim of dramatically reducing the number of single-use bags, were so inspired at school by what has been possible throughout history that they wanted to make a difference themselves. This year, they reached their initial aim to have bags banned on their own island of Bali, and now want to take their movement forward to be a real youth movement for the future.

Germany’s Climate-Stressed Forests

November 11, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Across Germany, an alarming number of trees are falling ill and dying. Over the past two years 180,000 hectares of forest have disappeared, linked to extreme weather events and the proliferation of an aggressively spreading bark beetle.