Climate change activist Greta Thunberg to take message to US by boat

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager whose social media-savvy activism has inspired tens of thousands of students in Europe to miss lessons and protest for faster action against climate change, plans to take her message to America the old-fashioned way: by boat.

The 16-year-old tweeted today that she will sail across the Atlantic aboard a high-tech racing yacht, leaving Britain next month.