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Greta Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist who gained international attention for her environmental advocacy starting as a teenager.
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16-year-old climate change activist, Greta Thunberg, has become involved in a strange online spat with a German train company after tweeting a photograph of her sitting on the floor of a train carriage. Thunberg, who was later upgraded to first class, tweeted a photo of herself sitting on the floor…
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The White House has issued a statement intended to clear up issues over President Trump's criticism of climate change activist Greta Thunberg. The controversy began when the teenage campaigner was named Time magazine's Person of the Year, for her influence on the Extinction Rebellion movement and for her speech condemning…
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Earlier this week, Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year, after condemning world leaders for not doing enough to combat the climate crisis back in September. Check out the moment Greta condemned world leaders for their lack of action before staring down President Trump: However, not everyone…
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Earlier this week, Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year, after condemning world leaders for not doing enough to combat the climate crisis back in September. "People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all…
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Donald Trump Jr. has hit out at TIME for choosing the teenage climate activist, Greta Thunberg, as their Person of the Year. The son of the POTUS suggested that the pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong should have been given the honour instead. "Time leaves out the Hong Kong Protesters fighting…
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Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has been named Time's 'Person of the Year'. At the age of just 16, Thunberg has received the prestigious award after capturing the world's attention at the UN climate change summit where she pleaded with world leaders to take action on the crisis. In…
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In recent weeks, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been hitting the headlines thanks to the younger generation. This is in part due to his decision to gift his ''hero'' Greta Thunberg an electric car and, later, going on a bike ride with the young climate change activist. Now, Schwarzenegger's 22-year-old son has…
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16-year-old climate change activist, Greta Thunberg, earned millions of fans after her rousing speech at the United Nations Climate Change summit earlier this year. And now, she has called upon every single person on the planet to stand up and join her in the fight against climate change. Watch as…
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[caption id="attachment_3781" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Credit: Pexels[/caption] The environment is a very hot topic these days. Now more than ever, we really need to take the necessary changes to help reduce and reverse the damage that we have done to our planet. Like many signs have said at various rallies and…
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A girl who bears a striking resemblance with climate activist Greta Thunberg was spotted in a 120-year-old photograph, and now conspiracy theorists are branding the 16-year-old a time traveller. The vintage photograph in question features three children working at a gold mine in the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was…
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Eleven thousand scientists in 153 countries have issued a stark warning about the climate crisis, declaring a global climate emergency, the Independent reports. They warn that "untold human suffering" is inevitable unless substantial changes are made to our way of life in terms of how it impacts the environment. The…
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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has lavished praise on Swedish teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg, calling her "a leader of our time". The Academy-Award-winning actor is well-known for his own environmental campaigning, and he recently had the opportunity to meet with Thunberg in person. DiCaprio took to Instagram to share two…
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A new audit has found that Coca-Cola is the biggest polluter in the world. It was conducted by the global movement Break Free From Plastics, which obtained its findings from the work of 72,000 volunteers who combed beaches, waterways and streets for litter on a single day in September this…
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Greta Thunberg rang in Halloween in the best possible way: trolling climate change deniers. Rather than donning a spooky costume, she took aim at her haters. Posting a photo on Twitter of herself alongside a placard which reads "skolstrejk för klimatet", the 16-year-old captioned the tweet, "So today is Halloween.…
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Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has refused the offer of a $50,000 environmental award prize over her campaigning. The 16-year-old was recently honored by the Nordic Council, a regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation, at a ceremony in Stockholm. However, despite saying the offer was a "great honour", Thunberg opted…
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The DJ and musician, Fatboy Slim, has paid tribute to the teenage environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, by taking a sample of her United Nations speech and mixing it into his famous track, Right Here, Right Now. The sample was first heard when Fatboy Slim was performing a gig at the…
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As a society, we are now, more than ever before, trying to find ways in which to reduce our carbon footprint. For instance, we are constantly on the lookout for more sustainable alternatives to materials that harm our environment - materials such as plastic. Relive the moment Greta Thunberg criticised…
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The climate change crisis is possibly the most urgent catastrophe we face. In the last year, devastating wildfires in the Amazon rainforest have wreaked havoc on the Brazilian ecosystem, spurring climate change protesters (energised by Greta Thunberg) to take to the streets in a desperate bid to convince politicians and…
