Heat and education

A new study finds greening school playgrounds can improve quality of life in cities and help deal with climate change.

From extreme heat and floods to earthquakes and cyclones, a wealth of examples collected on PreventionWeb offer clear evidence that disaster risk reduction delivers tangible results.

Even though trees help keep children safe from the Sun, some school districts have lost 25% of their tree canopy in just 4 years.

COPE Disaster Champions, in collaboration with SUSS, is thrilled to announce the official launch of a new interactive learning platform hosted on SUSS UniLEARN.

The COPE squad embarks on an adventure to the WMO headquarters in Geneva to learn about climate and environmental issues. Then, they travel to the city of Paris to discover how the city implements their ‘climate action plan’ to help deal with heatwaves.

The Citizen Science for Cooler School's project (CS2) was a 12-month pilot that explored heat risk in Queensland schools and involved students as scientists to learn about and consider ways to manage identified ‘hotspots’ on school grounds.

Children are particularly vulnerable to such environmental stressors. This column uses nationwide exam data from Japanese primary and secondary schools to explore how heat exposure affects student learning.