The journey was often rough, but Greta Thunberg has sailed into New York City waters.
The 16-year-old Swedish teenager — who over the last year has emerged as one of the warming planet’s foremost climate activists — arrived in the Big Apple on Wednesday afternoon, following a two-week trip across the stormy Atlantic Ocean.
Thunberg is in town to participate in September’s U.N. Climate Action Summit (and Mashable’s Social Good Summit). To avoid the prodigious carbon emissions created by air travel, she chose a wind-powered journey across the Atlantic aboard the high-tech racing sailboat the Malizia II. Read more…
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