Youth from around the world participated in a youth and children’s caucus at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Some youth feel that their views on protecting the environment are different from those of adult world leaders.

Pack ice was used by the polar bears and humans to hunt the seals and whales they needed for survival. Now polar bears have to swim longer and farther, facing more danger, to bring food back to their families.

A United Nations committee released a report that says global warming is hurting poor countries more so than the Western countries that are mostly responsible for global warming.

Melting ice at the North Pole hurts polar bears who need the ice to live.

It may seem hard to believe, but people can actually change the weather and the earth’s climate. A new report states that it is “very likely” (or 90 percent certain) that climate change is caused by human activity.

Many people in the UK are changing the way they use energy. They are bicycling, buying food from local producers and recycling their waste. People are also angry. They have directed their anger at politicians who talk about these problems but do little to prevent them. Hundreds of people came together and set up the “Climate Camp” last August to say they had had enough.