Global warming leads to severe weather conditions and warmer ocean temperatures. This hurts coral reefs, which one billion people depend on for food or income.
As a group, we were inspired by this moving story and decided to put our own spin on it: We wanted to connect with other people about climate change.
We did this by constructing a dome-shaped booth structure out of bamboo and lined the inside with cloth to make it a private space.
If there’s one thing humans are good at making, it’s garbage, particularly ocean-harming plastic. But several startups that exhibited their products at the recent ChangeNOW summit at Station F in Paris are intent on getting rid of plastic waste and even turning it into something useful.
Technology is advancing quickly before our eyes — including new products for those who are visually impaired. For the makers of the PANDA virtual reality headset, vision is not only the pitch — it's the product.
Station F, the world's biggest startup campus, opened its doors to the public Friday and Saturday for a summit of innovators hoping to solve the world's problems, from dirty oceans and urban farming to boring high schools.
In this video, I'll talk you through the basics of fronts and low-pressure systems, which are a staple of understanding meteorology. You'll see how global warming has impacted the Earth over the past couple of hundred years, and understand more about factors behind stronger storms, including rising sea levels and warmer water.
"All of us were surprised because this was the first big earthquake we experienced, but we were told to stay in the classroom and evacuated much later," she said. "Though we have earthquake safety exercises a few times every semester, our buildings are not earthquake proof and our dormitories rarely have teachers around.”
Watch student Mia LeBerre's video with a message on how to change the way we see climate change — not through the lens of national politics, but with a global understanding that "everything is interrelated."