A teen climate hero

Ellyanne Wanjiku Chlystun, a 14-year-old from Kenya, is gaining global recognition for her environmental efforts. Since founding the nonprofit Children With Nature in 2017, she has planted more than 1.3 million trees worldwide. She has also raised awareness of the link between climate change and health problems and, in 2023, became the youngest global ambassador for the organization Zero Malaria. Her goal is to plant 1 trillion trees by age 18. “Everything is possible, especially for me as a young person,” she told the BBC.…

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