Current Events- Climate Change

During an earlier post, I discussed how I include an ongoing science current event assignment as part of my biology class, mainly because I feel it is important for students to realize how relevant science is to our world.  Many of the articles students have summarized so far this year deal with climate change- either directly or indirectly.  During today's discussion of current events in one of my classes, one article was specifically about climate change, another was about hotter than normal temperatures in the Arctic, another was about slow-moving hurricanes, and another was about large forest fires, such as those currently burning in the Amazon region of South America.  There was even an article about how climate change may have aided in the evolution of a deadly fungus, allowing it to adapt to human body temperatures and become more infectious to humans! Talk about a relevant issue that is obviously on students' minds!  I mentioned to my students that today a global climate protest took place in areas all around the world, inspired and led by young people, and we looked at some pictures of various protests around the world.  We discussed how the goal of the protests was to draw attention to climate change and to demand that those in positions of power in the world to work harder to take action on this issue.
Here is the link to the article we discussed:   Young People Lead Millions to Protest Global Inaction on Climate Change- NPR