Special issue of Wrack Lines features diverse youth voices

Cover of Fall-Winter 2024-2025 issue of Wrack Lines magazine with photos of six youth writersSix youth writers who received the Wrack Lines Voices of Diverse Youth Scholarship shared their reflections and insights about nature and climate change in the Fall-Winter 2024-2025 issue of our biannual magazine.

Three of the students are seniors at the High School in the Community, a charter school in New Haven, and three are students at the Avery Point campus of UConn. They relate experiences from Pakistan to Puerto Rico, Nantucket to Houston to their neighborhoods, as they consider their relationships to the environment and the impacts of the changing climate now and in the future.

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Individual articles:

Editor’s column and contents

An eye-opening nature experience in my parents’ village
by Farwa Mohsin

Seeing the environment’s beauty and problems, with help from a deer and a lizard
by Dominic Moore

Flames of fury: the far reach of the Canadian wildfire catastrophe of 2023
by Eden Torres

Looking back on a New England boyhood as climate change disrupts the seasons
by Seth Kinter

When Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, climate change became a family tragedy
By Isaiah Sosa

On Nantucket Island, fond memories collide with today’s climate change realities
by Elena Smith

What’s in our names / back cover