Until now, UTC has not approved a solo climate change emoji and went on the record rejecting 👎 a proposal to add one in 2017 saying people can use two separate emojis—like these 🌎🔥 ...

Avid texters will soon have a new way to talk about the growing impacts of climate change: an emoji depicting a tree without leaves. Approval of the emoji was revealed in an update earlier this ...

Scott Varda, an associate professor of communication at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, told Bloomberg that the emoji "has the possibility to create awareness of climate change as a problem." ...

Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon ... the leafless tree is meant to raise awareness of drought and climate change, according to Brian Baihaki, who submitted it to the Unicode ...

Climate awareness is now trying to take help from an emoji to generate a bit more traction regarding climate change. (Getty Images) They say desperate times call for desperate measures.