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Students Build First Rain-Powered Fish Hatchery in Oregon.
There's a poison that's plagued fishery students at Warrenton High School for years. To get rid of it, and its deadly effect on the school's yearly crop of chinook, chum and coho salmon, students have... --8/21/2010
NJ Students Go High-Tech To Track Cherry Blossoms.
For the past month, 10 students have wandered among the thousands of cherry blossom trees in Newark's Branch Brook Park and repeated a curious routine. A student stands next to a tree with a yellow de... --8/14/2010
Michigan Teen Farms Her Backyard.
The New York Times Magazine reports on Alexandra Reau, 14, who asked her dad to dig up a half acre of their lawn in rural Petersburg, Mich., so she could farm. Now in its second season, her Garden to ... --7/18/2010
New Orleans Students Have Their Say on the Oil Spill.
In a few less-than-quiet classrooms in New Orleans, about 15 middle and high school students have been gathered together over the past five weeks discussing what they want to do about the BP oil spill... --7/14/2010
Students Dive at Chance to Restore Oyster Populations.
Dozens of students at the New York Harbor School who do some of their best school work on the bottom of New York Harbor. "Today I am one of the divers, so I'll be going down and surveying the area and... --6/8/2010
Students Create Learning-Focused Pond Habitat.
On Thursday afternoon, for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the Ecology Club at Stonewall Jackson High School unveiled its year-long project, a sparkling pond exploration habitat behind the school. ... --4/25/2010
High School Students Helping Haitians Go Green.
A group of Chicago high school students is working to help Haiti by giving the people in one village tools to go green. They are students and environmentalists -- but mostly humanitarians, at Mother M... --4/16/2010
Environmental Charter High School in New Haven Wins Grant to Get Greener.
Common Ground High School’s 20-acre site on the flank of West Rock State Park may get a new harvest pavilion and a cistern to store rainwater, thanks to a $96,000 grant students at the environmental c... --2/23/2010
Boulder High School Launches Student 'Green Team.'
The next generation will benefit or suffer from today's environmental efforts, or lack thereof, which is why the Boulder Valley School District is charging students with being "green" leaders. A core ... --11/30/2009
High School Students to Discuss Climate Change In Copenhagen.
Almost every Sunday since the beginning of summer, ten students from Bow High School have been meeting in their school library. They’re preparing for the Zealand Consensus, named for the island region... --11/19/2009
Oregon Students Grow a Farm and Unique Produce Business.
Paul Hudak has converted the field at Terra Nova High School into a productive student farm, with his untested idea of a student-run business selling produce to subscribers. It was a tough sell in a p... --11/7/2009
Students Develop Manure-Based Paper for Future Farmers’ Engineering Competition.
Two students from Highland High School's Future Farmers of American chapter took second place in the organization's 82nd annual national competition with a project that involved turning horse dung int... --11/3/2009
Arizona Teens Build Green Playground.
With stacked wine bottles for windows, hay bales for walls and recycled metal for roofing, Carver Elementary School's new kindergarten playhouse will be green as can be. The Green Development Project ... --8/13/2009
Teen Entrepreneurs Take Business Model to Brazil.
After selling aluminum water bottles to discourage the use of plastic ones, and helping write a climate action plan for the city, five teenagers are gearing up for their next big challenge: An interna... --7/28/2009
High School Students Clear Hurdle for Plastic Bag Ban.
Spearheaded by a group of high school students from Kent Denver School, Colorado Senate Bill 156 is opposed by supermarkets and big box stores who argue that the added burden would put unnecessary. If... --2/15/2009
International Ship-Based Educational Tour, Students on Ice, Heads to Antarctica.
Sandra Lobato, a 16-year-old Pajaro Valley High School junior, will leave for Antarctica on Christmas Eve to spend two weeks with 60 international students on a ship-based educational tour of the glob... --12/13/2008
Students Study Polar Bears in Canadian Tundra.
Live via satellite from the arctic tundra near Churchill, Canada, where she is enrolled in a camp for teenagers interested in the conservation of polar bears, a 15-year-old Cottonwood High School soph... --10/8/2008
Maine Students Step Up to Stop Waste.
Some high school students are taking global warming seriously and winning national attention for their efforts. Chloe Maxmin and Winston Crowell founded the Lincoln Academy's climate change club last ... --8/16/2008
Detroit High School Students Work to Beautify City.
Some Detroit high school students hope to flip the old adage, "The grass is always greener on the other side" by beautifying their own communities. The Detroit Conservation Leadership Corps program la... --7/15/2008
High School Students Start Fuel-Saving Campaign Urging 55 on Freeway.
A group of Carlsbad High School students are reducing their highway speed to 55 mph and driving in the right lane after getting a lesson about the benefits in French and German language class. After l... --7/8/2008
Students Recognize World Water Day Through Voyage and Video Conference.
In recognition of World Water Day, the Global Studies Group at St. Joseph High School participated in a distance video conference on May 6 with Abington High School, Colegio Carol Baur in Mexico, and ... --5/14/2008
Students Bring Shades of ‘Green’ to Schools: Upsurge in Environmental Activism Incorporat
High Point High School students are placing recycling bins in every corner of the school and joining environmentalist rallies in Annapolis. Robert Goddard Montessori students have helped stop soil ero... --2/6/2008
Students Focus on Climate Change: Local High School Joins National Teach-in on Global Warming.
Hingham High School joined more than 1,500 colleges, community groups and high schools, including neighboring Cohasset High, for Focus the Nation’s National Teach-In Day on global warming solutions. F... --2/1/2008
Maine Students to Track Mountain Lion Reports.
A group of Dexter Regional High School students and a teacher-adviser are planning to investigate and prove the existence of mountain lions in Maine. Teacher Regan McPhetres says the group has set up ... --12/17/2007
Students on the Front Line of Efforts to Help Lobsters.
Through the morning fog, Colleen Giannini spotted two white buoys swaying atop the waters in Fishers Island Sound. Giannini, a lobster biologist for the state Department of Environmental Protection, e... --10/29/2007
High School Students to Create National Public Service Announcements about the Environment.
Forecast Earth Summit participants, a group of 20 high school “eco-ambassadors” to be chosen by The Weather Channel in early November, will showcase their passion for helping the environment on a nati... --10/25/2007
Crab Study Turns Students Into Scientists.
Like Gold Rush prospectors, the 76 students in Sir Francis Drake High School's Galileo program sift through the muddy waters of South Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands. Instead of gold, however, the ... --10/9/2007
Katrina Survivors in High School Study Climate Change.
World Wildlife Fund and the Allianz Foundation have announced a new opportunity for high school students displaced by Katrina to assess the climate change vulnerability of the southeastern U.S. "As th... --9/8/2007
High School Students Study E. coli Strains Through Summer Grant.
Eight scientifically inclined high-school students got the chance of a lifetime this past summer. Debra Wohl, a Biology professor at Elizabethtown received a grant that funded a summer research projec... --9/1/2007
Expedition to Ice-Choked Arctic Waters Thrills Students.
As she ended a once-in-a-lifetime cruise through the ice-choked Arctic, the excitement of 16-year-old Bali Symenuk swept right through the phone line. "I've always been interested in conservation, in ... --8/18/2007
High School Students Graduate from Baltimore's First Conservation Leadership Corps.
Students from Baltimore high schools graduated today from Baltimore's Conservation Leadership Corps after spending the past six weeks restoring city parks and learning about environmental conservation... --8/9/2007
Hundreds of North American High School Students to Compete at Annual Envirothon.
More than 260 teenagers from 43 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces will descend upon Hobart & William Smith College in Geneva, N.Y., July 29th-August 4th, to participate as finalists in the 2007 ... --7/25/2007
Students Swim in Knowledge of Aqua Biology Summer Project.
The high school students in Paul du Vair's aqua biology summer school course have learned to be extraordinarily game as they explore and record scientific data about Lake Mendota and its Six Mile Cree... --7/16/2007
No Child Left Inside: City Kids Head Into the Wilderness to Connect with Nature.
Thirty-six New York City high school students left Manhattan on July 9th to participate in The Nature Conservancy’s Internship Program for City Youth, a unique program that gives urban youths the oppo... --7/10/2007
Pittsburgh Students Seek
Daniela Valdes kicked off her summer break with a petition drive that gathered 700 signatures calling for Pittsburgh's planned arena and casino to be built as environmentally friendly buildings. Valde... --6/11/2007
Vermont High School Students Show Lawmakers Fuel Idea to Combat Global Warming.
A group of high school students has an idea to combat global warming: replace home heating fuel with switchgrass. Students from the Mount Abraham Union High School in Bristol presented their model at ... --4/30/2007
Local High School Students Cooking Up Biodiesel in San Diego.
The KPBS radio series "A Matter of Degrees: Climate Change in San Diego" visited the San Diego High Educational Complex, where students are cooking up batches of biodiesel. On the edge of campus at Sa... --4/17/2007
High School Students Promote Conservation in Aspen through Light Bulb Efficiency Program.
Teams of high school students are knocking on doors around the city of Aspen offering energy-efficient light bulbs in a program to encourage conservation. The city's electric utility is trying to get ... --1/2/2007
California High School Students Team Up with Monterey Bay Aquarium for Project on Slough Water.
Students at Pajaro Valley High School have been giving up weekends in the name of environmental science. Since November they have been working to identify the source of nutrients such as nitrates, amm... --12/19/2006
Hawaiian High School Students Use GPS-Photo Link Software to Study Beach Erosion.
Students at Kealakehe High School in Hawaii will be hitting the beaches this year with GPS-Photo Link software, to study the extent and possible causes of shoreline erosion. The students will select s... --9/10/2006
Illinois Students Celebrate Connection of Rivers and Life in Parade of Waters.
A day-long event that was as spiritual as it was educational kicked off the 13th annual Clean Water Celebration on Sunday, as about 90 students, teachers and environmentalists came together to celebra... --4/24/2006
As Experts Ponder World Water Crisis, Teenagers Show Creativity.
As water experts meet to debate the world's daunting water crisis, 15-year-old Dolly Akhter is here to share her approach. She and 6,000 other girls canvass the slums of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital... --3/22/2006
Ohio High School Students Win Grant to Study Insect's Effects on Hemlock Forests.
A group of high school students has received a grant to study the effects of an insect attacking hemlock forests in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Thirty students from Glen Este High School'... --1/24/2006
Student Researchers in Arizona Log Archeological Markers for U.S. Geological Survey.
Three teens jump out of their raft and onto the bank of the Colorado River carrying a compass, a tape measure and a plastic pole. They scramble over boulders and uphill through bushes in Marble Canyon... --8/22/2005
Biodiesel Fuel for School Buses Gets Thumbs Up from Indiana Students.
The idea of burning biodiesel in Union County school buses came closer to reality after the school board got a visual demonstration last week of the pollution created by regular diesel fuel. Union Cou... --8/14/2005
Hawaii Youth Study Agriculture Through Hands-On Preservation Programs.
Each year, Maunawili Valley banana farmer Mark Paikuli-Stride educates new generations about the value of the traditional ahupua'a system in Hawai'i by inviting students onto his land to show them why... --8/8/2005
South China and Vermont Students Team Up for Environmental Management.
High school students from South China and Vermont are joining forces to learn more about natural resource management and how to help the environment. The Green Across the Pacific program has brought t... --7/21/2005
Denver Students Take a Stand Against Developers Bulldozing Prairie Dogs.
A group of students in Jefferson County is trying to protect prairie dogs from extermination at the massive Stapleton development. Students in the Prairie Activist class at the Jefferson County Open S... --5/23/2005
High School Students Convene at Tufts to Discuss Ocean and Maritime Policy, Propose Resolutions.
Over 350 high school students convened at Tufts in a symposium this weekend to discuss the future of the world's oceans. This annual Inquiry simulation is facilitated by the Institute for Global Leade... --4/11/2005
Students Hope to Persuade School Board to Use Biodiesel in School Buses.
The day Dylan Pickus carried around a pale yellow concoction in a wide-mouthed jar at Harbour Pointe Middle School, one of his teachers asked if the contents could explode. If anything, Dylan, 13, and... --3/28/2005
Students Worldwide Demand Justice for Bhopal on Anniversary of Chemical Disaster.
Students from more than 60 colleges, universities, and high schools worldwide organized events to mark the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, and to demand that Dow Chemical resolve its legal an... --12/6/2004
2004 Brower Youth Award Winners: Swimming Against The Tide.
"We can't get caught in this vicious cycle of being apathetic because they view us as apathetic," says 21-yr-old Christina Wong. "Our voice counts," she adds, "it just needs to be cultivated." Wong sp... --9/24/2004
Young American Bald Eagle Rehabilitated and Released by Tennessee Students.
A young American bald eagle returned to the wild over the weekend, about a month after being found weak, undernourished and unable to hunt. Students at the Raptor Rehabilitation Center at Southwestern... --8/8/2004
Michigan Students Use Spray Paint to Educate Residents, Help Lakes.
Some North Muskegon High School students are roaming their neighborhoods this summer to educate their community about preventing further pollution of area lakes and creeks. It's hard to ignore their m... --8/6/2004
Perth Amboy Students Plunge In to Restore Rare Habitat.
Perth Amboy High School students paddled their canoes to the shore yesterday to unload plastic crates, large sticks, buckets and other debris they had removed from Willow Pond. Nearby along the shore,... --7/10/2004
North Carolina Students Study the Ozone's Effects on Plants in Cradle of Forestry.
At the Cradle of Forestry, students are learning first-hand about the ozone and its effects on plant species through a program called Students as Scientists. "This gives the students an actual hands-o... --10/14/2003
Timber Industry Gives High School Students Close-up View of Forest Management.
Thursday morning, as he surveyed the aftermath of the county's catastrophic 1992 Cleveland fire, Tim Mata, a student at McClatchy High School's fire science academy, said, "This shows where we've fail... --9/27/2003
Earthwatch Institute Sends Students to Study Salmon Populations, Habitats.
High school senior Nicole Sauer hates fish, but as one of 75 students selected for the Earthwatch 2003 Student Challenge Awards Program, her summer project was Tributary Junctions: Hotspots of Biologi... --9/23/2003
Students Convene at National Youth Watershed Summit to Commemorate Clean Water Act.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Clean Water Act, high school students from across the United States are convening this week for a Youth Watershed Summit in Maryland, to share... --10/8/2002
Student Association Initiatives Build Environmental Foundations for Future Conservation Efforts.
The Student Conservation Association, a 45-year-old environmental organization which opened an office in Pittsburgh in 2000, is building the next generation of conservation leaders in the Three Rivers... --9/2/2002
Virginia Students Awarded $100,000 for Wetlands Estonoa Project.
Physics students at St. Paul High School found out last week they had been awarded a $100,000 rural development grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to construct a learning center on... --8/28/2002
Students Identify, Map Life Forms in Smoky Mountains National Park.
Fifty-eight high school students from across the Southeast will conduct hands-on research Saturday in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The students, who are participants in the University of Tenne... --7/12/2002
Georgia Students Tag Nesting Sea Turtles on Costa Rica Research Trip.
A 12-seat plane shook as it touched down on a short runway and stopped in an enormous puddle at the Tortuguero Airport Friday morning. Eight students, two teachers, a volunteer and a reporter from Col... --7/8/2002
Youth from Mountain Community Blaze Trail Through Children's Forest.
Teens climb rocks, fight through thick thorn bushes and hike through the Children's Forest in the woods near Running Springs, a mountain community of about 5,100 people, as part of an eight-member tra... --6/2/2002
Hawaii Kids Restore Marsh, Create Web Site.
Students at three Kailua schools stretched their research, writing, art, and computer skills this spring to create an informative web site about Hamakua Marsh. The 350 students, from 18 local classes,... --5/8/2002
Students Urge School Board to Clear the Air, Revise Smoking Policies.
If kids can't smoke on school property, then adults shouldn't either, according to Selby Area students who say the school board is resisting their initiative to toughen the district's tobacco policy. ... --5/2/2002
Students Present New Vision After Studying Southern California Dam and Parkland.
Ten San Fernando High School students presented their vision Friday of a Hansen Dam Park of the future--one featuring a boardwalk, nature preserve and facilities for disabled visitors. Their recommend... --4/29/2002
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