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Miyo McGinn

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Seattle, WA, United States

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Past:
  • Grist
  • Mother Jones

Past articles by Miyo:

For this young climate activist, saving the Earth is an extracurricular

At 17, Grace Lambert balances high school, sports, college applications — and a 90-person organization that's fighting for our survival. → Read More

How a program in Washington state is bringing climate change into the classroom

What today’s teachers learned about climate change in school is pretty out of date ⁠— if they learned about it at all. → Read More

2019’s biggest pop-culture trend was climate anxiety

Billie Eilish, "Big Little Lies," Megan Thee Stallion’s Instagram Live: The climate crisis kept popping up in unexpected places. → Read More

How can I be more climate-conscious in 2020?

This can actually be boiled down to one fairly simple resolution. → Read More

States band together to tackle car emissions

An initiative among 12 mid-Atlantic and northeast states, as well as Washington, D.C., just released its first draft proposal for lowering vehicle emissions. → Read More

What Exxon’s win in New York means for other climate lawsuits

Exxon won this round, but fossil fuel companies' finances still aren’t safe from scrutiny. → Read More

The little non-federal entities that could

The cumulative efforts of cities, states, businesses, and other institutions that have committed to taking action on climate could go a long way to making up the difference — without President Trump's help. → Read More

In ‘Frozen II,’ Anna and Elsa fight climate change instead of bad guys

For a generation that will live through catastrophic climate change, Disney's new movie hits close to home. → Read More

How melting ice could help us fill the gaps in our history books

When ice patches thaw, a window of possibility for archeological discoveries opens -- briefly. → Read More

John Kerry declares war on climate change

Former senator and secretary of state John Kerry assembled a coalition to push for climate action, ahead of the U.N. climate summit in Madrid. → Read More

Your state’s air pollution might be coming from another state’s power plants

Air pollution from power plants caused 16,000 premature deaths in 2014, often traveling across state lines. → Read More

How has climate change affected you in 2019?

Big or small, widely reported or not, life-changing or inconvenient or just sort of weird, we want to hear your story. → Read More

Why some hydropower plants are worse for the climate than coal

“It’s pretty alarming,” Ilissa Ocko, the study’s lead author, told Grist. → Read More

‘OK, boomer’: The perfect response to a generation that failed on climate

A 25-year-old New Zealand lawmaker demonstrated this week that the phrase is, quite simply, a perfect climate slogan. → Read More

Why New Delhi’s air is always so toxic this time of year

The stew of pollution that chokes India’s capital in the fall and winter doesn’t have one single source. → Read More

11,000 scientists say that the ‘climate emergency’ is here

“Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any great existential threat and to ‘tell it like it is.’” → Read More

Miami Beach declares a climate emergency

Miami Beach passed a resolution declaring a climate emergency last week, thanks to young climate activists who rallied in front of City Hall last month. → Read More

A New Study Pinpoints With Incredible Specificity the Places Most at Risk on a Warming Planet –

Here's where projected environmental losses overlap with human populations who depend on those resources. → Read More

New study pinpoints the places most at risk on a warming planet

Habitat destruction will have devastating consequences for people, too. → Read More

Eating at home reduces your exposure to toxic ‘forever chemicals’

“We can’t rely on consumers to shop their way out of this challenge.” → Read More