by Dylan Carlson-Sirvent | 5 Jun 2020 | Health and Wellness, Youth Voices
Reporting from around the world confirms that youth are using their creativity and energy to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the best in many young people. That may not be the prevailing view in some media, but the World Teenage...
by Dylan Carlson-Sirvent | 27 May 2020 | Environment, Health and Wellness, News Decoder Updates
Want to ensure the impact of COVID-19 on the environment slows climate change? Then be sure to vote, a top environmentalist tells a News Decoder webinar. Tom Burke (upper left) leads webinar on COVID-19 and climate change. What can young people do to ensure that...
by Dylan Carlson-Sirvent | 25 May 2020 | News Decoder Updates
They have helped shape News Decoder from the start. Meet our far-flung interns. They have decoded Brexit, rebuilt New Decoder’s website and dug into the Paris metro system. From our launch five years ago, interns have shaped New Decoder by helping us reach young...
by Dylan Carlson-Sirvent | 24 Apr 2020 | Decoders, Health and Wellness
Its mission is to protect the world’s health. But the WHO is beholden to its 194 member nations and lacks enforcement powers. By Dylan Carlson-Sirvent The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the World Health Organization (WHO) onto center stage as nations around the...
by Dylan Carlson-Sirvent | 17 Apr 2020 | Youth Voices
Harnessing social media, young people around the world are mobilizing resources in the fight against the new coronavirus. German teenager delivers groceries to older people, Osterode, Germany, 3 April 2020. (Frank May/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images) Young people are...