Whoopi Goldberg has teamed up with the climate action group Extinction Rebellion for an animated short film, released as part of World Environment Day. In the clip, Goldberg voices a grandmother reading a bedtime story to her grandchild, voiced by Livia Nelson. Goldberg’s tale describes climate change and the devastating …
Read More »Chris Hemsworth Pledges $1 Million to Fight Australia Bushfires
Chris Hemsworth said he and his family are donating $1 million to relief and recovery efforts as Australia continues to battle massive bushfires. The Thor star, who spent much of his childhood in Melbourne, shared a video on Instagram, saying, “We’re really still in the thick of it here as …
Read More »You Should Be at the Climate Strike: A Call to Arms From Bill McKibben
This story originally appeared in The Nation. It is republished here as part of Rolling Stone‘s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. A year ago, inspired by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, young people around the …
Read More »Greta Thunberg Ups Climate Pressure Ahead of UN Summit: 'This Has to Be a Tipping Point'
It took 13 days and 18 hours for the Malizia II to complete the journey from Plymouth, England across the North Atlantic, past the Azores, to New York City. Along the way, the boat — a 60-foot, solar- and wind-powered monohull belonging to the Principality of Monaco — contended with …
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