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Sept. 23, 2019: Creative Climate Communication; Swimming The English Channel (Times Four)

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190920 Climate Strike Denver Isha Kanu
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Isha Kanu, 17 and a senior at Northfield High School in Denver, was among the thousands who marched from Denver’s Union Station up the 16th Street Mall to the Colorado State Capitol on Friday Sept. 20, 2019 in support of an international youth-organized strike aimed at combating climate change. She also spoke at the rally.

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Conversations about climate change can be mind-numbing, but movies and TV shows are some examples of looking at the issue creatively, says a CU Boulder professor. Then, a Colorado woman swims the English Channel not once, not twice, not three, but four times. Even amid jellyfish bites. And, a new study says there are fewer birds than there used to be.