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Climate change is bad for our mental health. Activist Tori Tsui knows all too well the toll that eco-anxiety can take, and in her new book It’s Not Just You, she offers ways to navigate it and stay healthy while taking positive action. We met her to find out more.

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She’s taking the party outside, and everyone’s invited. All hail the new queen of green, Pattie Gonia.

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An activist, a professor and the lead singer of a-ha drove a makeshift electric car across Norway in the 1980s, skirting road regulations, to make a point to the government that policies around EVs needed to change. The surprising part? It worked.

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Hollywood is putting climate in the picture. Behind the scenes, work is underway to make sure stories about the environment get from script to screen, and reach an audience of millions. At Climate Week in New York we spoke to the people making it happen. Planet Earth, it’s time for your close-up.

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Our personal stories are a powerful tool. It’s why we dedicated an entire panel session to the topic at Climate Week in New York, together with climate solutions scientists Project Drawdown. And it’s why we invited people to explore their own eco journeys in our workshop afterwards. In sharing our experiences, we can inspire and activate others.

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When Thor Pedersen set off on October 10, 2013, he knew he was going on a trip like no other. But he still didn’t quite grasp the scale of the challenge he had taken on.

At age 10, Nyombi Morris lost his home to flooding. Fifteen years later, this experience of climate change in Uganda remains a driving force behind his activism. Armed with a laptop and a webcam, Morris has now risen to international prominence as a campaigner, while his organisation Earth Volunteers has planted more than 50,000 trees and taught climate literacy at dozens of Ugandan schools. We spoke to him about the fight for justice, his love of football, and the real work that goes into campaigning.

Last year the world’s number two restaurant went meat-free. Soon after, it was named world’s number one. We met the chef, Rasmus Kofoed, to hear the story behind Geranium’s stunning rebirth, and why he wants the world to eat more vegetables.

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Human activity is hurting the ecosystems that support life on Earth. But there’s a way to fix them. It’s called rewilding, and it’s about giving nature the space to restore itself.

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