Five Maine activists share what motivated them to join the fight on climate change.

Sirohi Kumar and Ania Wright of Bar Harbor are among the six winners of the 2020 Brookie Awards, presented by NRCM Rising, a program of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, to honor “young changemakers who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and made a significant impact in Maine’s environmental movement.” 

Although physical rallies are cancelled, Maine climate change activists are taking their movement online for the 50^th anniversary of Earth Day.

Last September, junior Beckett Slayton joined the state's inaugural Maine Climate Council, lending his perspective to important decisions that will affect future generations.

On March 5th, Bill McKibben and youth climate activists from Maine spoke to a standing room only audience at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in western Maine, kicking off the 2020 Vision: Finding Hope in Climate Action Climate Convergence—two days of intense climate activist training in which hundreds participated.

At a rally outside Portland City Hall Tuesday, young climate activists called on voters to consider the future of the world's climate when they cast their ballots in the primary election.

Government scientists told the state's climate council Wednesday that Maine has been reducing its overall emissions of climate-warming pollution over the last several decades… But the panel also heard from a group of young activists that those goals are not aggressive enough.

New estimates of how much carbon Maine forests store indicate that achieving carbon neutrality will be easier than hitting Gov. Mills’ robust emissions targets for 2050.

A group of youth climate activists wants to completely eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

The figures presented to the Maine Climate Council on Wednesday were familiar. Over half of the state’s emissions come from transportation.

Maine Youth for Climate Justice announced today that 130 Maine youth from more than 20 middle schools, high schools and area colleges, including post-grads, will gather in Augusta Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 11:30 a.m. for a press conference at which they will call on the state’s leaders to take urgent, bold action to transition to a just and sustainable economy.

Several hundred protesters braved the twelve-degree temperatures in Portland Saturday to join the fourth annual Women's March.

After getting several Maine towns to agree to address climate change, student activists are now calling on the state to declare a "climate emergency."