Category: Climate Data & Green Careers

The Student Press · Environment Desk · Est. Today Give a student a notebook and a real question about their own community — Why does that creek flood now? What’s in the air near the highway? Where does our trash actually go? — and they become something powerful: a reporter. Student climate journalism turns young…

Every school burns through energy, fuel, and materials — and every bit of it releases greenhouse gases that, until measured, remain completely invisible. A carbon footprint project makes that invisible impact visible by counting it: turning the school’s electricity bills, bus routes, and waste into a single number measured in tons of carbon dioxide. The…

A student plants a pollinator garden, audits the school’s energy use, or builds a small solar array — and without quite realizing it, has just sampled the work of a botanist, an energy analyst, and a renewable-energy technician. Hands-on environmental projects do something career fairs rarely manage: they let students experience the work of the…

Live Data · Statistical Literacy · STEM Somewhere on a public website, a graph is updating in near real time: the planet’s temperature, the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, the extent of its sea ice. These climate dashboards — like NASA’s Vital Signs of the Planet and NOAA’s Global Climate Dashboard — put the actual…