GLOBE News

Students of the Bueng Khong Long Wittaya School, in northeast Thailand, were concerned about the water quality of the local Bueng Khong Long wetland because of the extensive use of chemical fertilizers on rice farms and rubber plantations in the area. They decided to do a research project to examine the issue.  >>

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Preparations are underway in eight GLOBE countries in Europe to launch a three-year EU-funded project designed to disseminate information about best practices in teaching science and engaging young people in science studies.  >>

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GLOBE students across the Europe and Eurasia Region have been focused on atmosphere since the Aerosols Campaign started in mid-September. The aim of the campaign is to raise the awareness about aerosols, their occurrence, origin and impacts.  >>

GLOBE teacher Tatjana Holjević is rightfully proud of her three students from the Medical High School in Rijeka, Croatia, who took third place in the 2013 GLOBE Student Research Exhibition. The students presented their project "Water Quality and Revitalization Potential of the Mrtvi Kanal Channel" at the GLOBE Annual Meeting.  >>

Since 1990, NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program has enabled over 600 teachers to gain first-hand experience of science and life at sea by working on research ships. Teachers have enriched their classroom curricula with a depth of understanding made possible by living and working side-by-side, day and night, with those who contribute to the world's body of scientific knowledge.  >>

The GLOBE 2014 Calendar Art Competition is currently underway and the deadline has been extended to 15 October. Encourage your students to express themselves and send us an illustration about what makes their local environment unique.  >>

"On Friday night, when most high school students in Tyler, Texas, were going home from a football game, three girls in Hawkins had a different plan. Allyson Edwards, Hope Hughes and Madison Jaco, all Hawkins High School students, intended to Skype students in India to talk about research," writes Emily Guevara of the Tyler Morning Star Newspaper in Tyler, Texas. Learn more about the collaboration to analyze soil characteristics involving students in Tyler and in New Delhi, India, and the girls' trip to Maryland with science teacher Audra Edwards to present their findings at the 2013 GLOBE Student Research Exhibition.  >>

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