A NEW Scottish-based digital publication has been launched with the aim of alerting young people to the full scale of the climate crisis.
Rising Clyde has been created by masters students at the University of Strathclyde as part of their course project. It brings together news, features, opinions and other content from an environmental perspective on a new website. The content will also be shared through various social media platforms, including Instagram and TikTok.
Niall Houston, co-editor of the publication, said: “What COP26 showed the world is a demand for more action to be taken concerning the climate emergency. The climate crisis has again become a topic of news – a vertical alongside sports, politics and science. Yet the climate debate must be a part of every vertical. That is exactly what Rising Clyde offers.”
Jen Kowalski from the Just Stop Oil campaign, who spoke at the launch on Friday, added: “There’s definitely some new things here. We need people looking at the science, at reports, and saying to people ‘what can we do about this?’ We really need more content about that, especially for young people.”
Launch stories on the site include a guide to sustainable fashion outlets in Scotland, one about body heat from clubbers potentially being used to power a Glasgow venue, and another on anxiety caused by the petrochemical plant owned by ExxonMobil and Shell in Fife.
Visit risingclyde.uk for more details
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