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African American protester wearing a mask that says, "Vote" in Washington Square Park expressing the sentiment that voting in Nov. 2020 will be a way to help affect change in policies to end racial injustice. June 19, 2020. |Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty
Black voters could in many ways be the decisive eco-voters of the most high stakes election in American history. 
The Niagara River is seen west of the river on May 26, 2018 in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. | Photo by Patrick Gorski/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Autumn Peltier is passionate about granting communites acess to clean water. It's a cause she has been fighting for since she was at least 12 years old. 
Ruth Miller attends Brown University's first Indigenous People's Day celebration as a sophomore in 2016. | Nick Dentamaro / Brown University
Ruth Miller is a member of the Dena’ina Athabascan Alaska Native tribe who believes prioritizing Indigenous women’s voices in discussions about climate justice is crucial.
 Members of the the San Carlos Apache Nation attend a protest outside the U.S. Capitol against a land swap that "threatens the sacred Apache Leap site with environmental damage from nearby high-risk copper." July 22, 2015. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
Naelyn Pike, Chiricahua Apache, is fighting with paperwork and by speaking out to stop Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company, from extracting copper ore from the Apache sacred site in Arizona. 
Xiye Bastida attends a CHOOSE US - Youth Climate Strike Demands Solutions And Action Now conversation with youth climate leaders at The New York Society for Ethical Culture. | Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images
Xiye Bastida is committed to helping create a future where climate activism is a space where people feel included and their actions matter.
Argentinean activist Chiarra Sacchi (right) speaks at a press conference where 16 children, present their official human rights complaint on the climate crisis to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in New York.
Last fall, 16 children from across the world filed a formal complaint with the United Nations over the climate crisis. What happened since?
A protestor in New Zealand looks on during a strike to raise climate change awareness in September 2019. | Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
Within just a few years, a new generation of activists has handily utilized digital tools to create a global coalition. The question now is whether that translates into policy change. 
EARTH FOCUS “The Youth Climate Movement Around the World” features Alexandria Villaseñor from Paradise, California. Image courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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In-depth profiles of four young environmentalists: Alexandria Villaseñor in California, Carl Smith in Alaska, Ayakha Melithafa in South Africa and Litokne Kabua in the Marshall Islands.
A Standing Rock Sioux flag flies over a protest encampment near Cannon Ball, North Dakota where members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their supporters gathered to voice their opposition to the Dakota Access oil Pipeline (DAPL), September 3, 2016.
Cody Two Bears is merging his Standing Rock Sioux cultural knowledge and desire for climate justice to empower his community through renewable energy. 
L.A. River CleanUp. | Courtesy of Friends of the Los Angeles River
Thanks to the work of many agencies, from California State Parks to the Army Corps of Engineers, as well as from plenty of lesser-known organizations and individuals, progress is being made in the revitalization at the Los Angeles River.
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