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One of the most powerful tools we have in the fight for a livable planet is the work of making young people stewards of their places. This means giving young people the opportunity to explore natural places in their area to learn the flora, fauna, and funga. Learning about the ecosystems, watersheds and environments of our places and being able to observe changes in these systems over time is the first step in becoming conservationists. I remember when I was a young child bei

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In November of 2023, I published an article about decreasing snow pack levels. Here, I have elaborated on that article. If you haven't read my original article on this topic, you can find it here . According to study from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) measuring April snowpacks across various sites in the Western United States, 81% of the sites saw decreased snowpack. This resulted in an average decrease of 18% from 1955 to 2023. Here are a couple more facts from

Recently I wrote an article about the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on climate change. I mentioned at the end of that article that AI might also be a valuable asset in combating the climate crisis. If you haven't read my original article, I recommend you do so before reading the rest of this one. You can find that article HERE Now, here is a shot list of 3 ways that AI can help and will help climate change: Mapping AI can help map out areas, and is being used

September the 21st was a Sunday. However, it was also SunDay. SunDay is a climate organization focused on finishing the transition to solar energy. The project was started by Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and author. SunDay was “a day of action on September 21, 2025” ( www.sunday.earth ) and is all about pushing for solar power, which is now the cheapest form of power in the world, and will create many new jobs. SunDay led way to over 450 events across almost all 50 stat

The first quarter of the 21st century is almost over, and I decided to dive into the fact that some of the hottest years in our history have occurred already in this century. We have been keeping track of global temperatures since 1850, and the last 25 years have been among the hottest of the 175 years we've been keeping track. As you probably know, 2024 broke the record for being the hottest year on record, which by itself, you may think might just be a fluctuation, nothing

SunDay is a climate organization focused on finishing the transition to solar energy. The project was started by Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and author. SunDay is “a day of action on September 21, 2025” ( www.sunday.earth ) and is all about pushing for solar power, which is now the cheapest form of power in the world, and will create many new jobs. SunDay is a day of hope of what the world can be if we all work together to make a solar-powered Earth. Check out SunDay's

AI is everywhere, in the news, on your computer and smartphone, it seems as though we can’t escape it. AI can be a useful tool that can do many things to help us in our day-to-day lives and has the potential to help us solve big scale problems too. However, AI is also having a devastating impact on the environment. Generative AI chatbots are asked to process hundreds of millions of queries each day. This takes a lot of energy. In fact, it takes 5 times as much energy for AI t

In a year, a large tree can take around 40 kilograms of CO₂ out of the air. Now scientists at UC Berkely have made a carbon-capturing powder that can achieve the same feat. With half a pound of this fluffy yellow powder, the researchers say that they can capture the same 40 kilos. This powder, called COF-999, has been designed to trap greenhouse gas particles, and then release them in a safer place, for example injecting the carbon into the ground, something already done at c

In the final days of December last year, the state of New York approved their new “Climate Change Superfund Act”, a measure that will make Big Oil companies pay more to help clean up the damage they have done. The act will force the biggest oil companies to pay a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years. Costs for repairing damage caused by climate change have continued to add up for the state, and a new act is supposed to help with this significantly. As est

The Climate Crisis is getting nothing but worse and although as a world we are seeing some progress, many countries are still not doing enough. This month, I want to tell you about one country that is taking serious measures to reduce global warming and doing unbelievably well. The country is: Iceland. Over 99% of Iceland's electricity comes from renewable sources, with approximately 80% coming from hydropower and 20% from geothermal energy. As if this is not enough, Iceland’

This month, I have written about three climate-related, youth-led lawsuits against various governments. These lawsuits, among others, are examples of youth holding their governments accountable for providing them with a livable future. We should all be inspired by these young people and the work they are doing through the legal system. I. Hawaii Just a couple weeks ago, on June 20th, the government of Hawaii settled a lawsuit with young people who had sued the Department o

On Tuesday April 2nd, researchers at the University of Washington used a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay to launch microscopic salt particles into the air in an effort to reflect sunlight away from the Earth. This is part of a new area of research called solar radiation modification. In this specific experiment the researchers aimed to increase the density, and therefore the reflectiveness, of the clouds. This experiment was kept very secretive to avo

This month I thought I would write about something more local than my last article so, I decided to write about the proposed Sun Bear solar farm on the Ute Mountain Ute reservation, near Towaoc, CO and how tribes may benefit from projects like this. Climate justice demands that any level of involvement that tribes choose to have in the production of renewable energy must be on the terms of the native communities and benefit them directly in the ways that they design and envis

This month I wrote a letter to President Biden concerning the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska that his administration approved in March. This project would potentially produce 180,000 new barrels of oil a day, an astonishing 1.5% of the U.S.’s total oil production. I encourage you to do some research and write to him as well. Dear President Biden, My name is Forest Olson I am an 11 year old environmentalist from Telluride Colorado. I am writing to ask you to put a stop

With the ski season coming up, many people in mountain towns are worried about how global warming will affect their snowpack. This month I looked into what mountains are doing to reduce snow loss and melting and stay open all winter long. I’m also going to look at some ways we are trapping carbon to reduce global warming. Research shows that cleaner snow does not melt as fast as dirtier snow. When air pollution particles settle and make the snow dirty it will absorb more sunl

This month I’m going to write about one of nature’s greatest wonders; coral reefs. Corals are animals that attach themselves to the ocean floor and through symbiotic relationships grow large, intricate, structures called reefs. 25% of marine life depends on these reefs which make up structures that can be seen from space. Coral reefs can reduce 97% of coastal wave energy during a storm. Coral reefs provide benefits to the tune of 2.7 trillion U.S dollars every year. They also

As some of you may know, July was Earth’s hottest month on record and many devastating effects of climate change started to show themselves such as huge wildfires in Hawaii and Canada as well as dying coral reefs in Florida and Australia. As I sit here on a high mesa in Southwest Colorado I can feel that this summer has been warmer than in the past and every year there is less snow on the mountains. But so far I have been relatively shielded from the biggest impacts. In order