The Odra River in Wroclaw is an important place for the city and its inhabitants. But Climate change is impacting the water quality and with it, the safety of the local population and the wildlife. How this is impacting the city and what can be done is explored in this multimedia story.

Horror stories all over the media: Heat waves, flooding, droughts. Fossil fuels are one of the huge sinners of climate change. The sun might be our savior. We were surprised at how little people knew about solar energy, so we went out to change that. Here’s what we found out.

The climate crisis is an existential threat to everyone, everywhere, anytime. But still, sometimes other crises are dominating the news. Sometimes this is justified – like during a pandemic or in the middle of a war. But in Austria there is a lot of talk about migration … as if it was a similar threat. When and why journalists are barking up the wrong tree.

All over the world, journalists covering climate change face different challenges depending on which country they work in. But four journalists from Georgia, Ukraine, Austria and Denmark all have hopes for the future of climate news.

Over the decades, protests and demonstrations against the climate crisis have changed and evolved into civil disobedience. The question we want to address is, how effective are those protests in our day and age and how do we get people to care, especially those who believe we are too far gone or have developed a high level of apathy. Activists, passivists, experts and authoritative figures weigh in on this crucial issue. 

The climate crisis is all over the media: People are protesting, blocking streets, tossing soup on famous pieces of art – but it’s mostly relatively young activists we see. So what about the older generations – do they care at all?