{"id":230903,"date":"2026-04-21T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-young-africans-will-inherit-a-climate-crisis-how-kids-in-sierra-leone-are-getting-ready\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:07:14","slug":"sierra-leone-young-africans-will-inherit-a-climate-crisis-how-kids-in-sierra-leone-are-getting-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-young-africans-will-inherit-a-climate-crisis-how-kids-in-sierra-leone-are-getting-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Young Africans Will Inherit a Climate Crisis &#8211; How Kids in Sierra Leone Are Getting Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">If today&#8217;s young people are tomorrow&#8217;s leaders, they will inherit not only the world&#8217;s problems but also the tools and ideas to solve them. One of the biggest changes they will face is a <a href=\"https:\/\/wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/wcc.565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changing climate<\/a>. This means hotter days, more intense storms and floods, longer droughts, and big changes in where and when rain falls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Youth need to be actively involved now in deciding how their cities will prepare for these changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"79\">We are climate adaptation researchers and university professors who study how&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604210004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If today&#8217;s young people are tomorrow&#8217;s leaders, they will inherit not only the world&#8217;s problems but also the tools and ideas to solve them. One of the biggest changes they will face is a changing climate. This means hotter days, more intense storms and floods, longer droughts, and big changes in where and when rain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,6752,6239,3723,17299,11138,6572,257,8479,6571,1135,254,7720],"class_list":["post-230903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africans","tag-climate","tag-crisis","tag-inherit","tag-kids","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-ready","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}