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We examine the understanding of weather and climate impacts on forest health in high school students. Climate physics, tree ring science and educational research collaborate to provide an online platform that captures the students’ observations, showing they verbalize the measured weather and the basic tree responses well. However, students hardly detect the causal connections. This result will help refine future classroom concepts and public climate change communication on changing forests.

Walking with an air quality monitoring instruments and an air quality expert could be a better tool for improving citizen awareness. A pilot experiment was done where a group of citizen roam around the city of Kolkata, India with live air quality monitor and an expert. The feedback from the participants were taken which clearly indicate air pollution walk as an efficient tool of communicating air pollution.

In this paper, I describe two projects that use children's books as science communication tools. The first project is the writing, illustration, translation, and distribution of a children's book that describes the environment of coastal Bangladesh. The second project is an undergraduate course that requires students to produce a children's book on a scientific topic. Both projects demonstrate the potential impact of children's books on students, scientists, and local communities.

This paper tackles K-12 Earth Science (ES) education challenges, introducing the "Rocks Really Rock" Electronic field trip. Utilizing multimedia and storytelling via Web Google Earth, shows a significant positive shift in attitudes towards geology, careers, and literacy. Findings endorse EFT effectiveness, supporting dissemination in schools and homeschooling to enhance ES education.

Scientific research around water security in the Peruvian Andes rarely includes local perspectives or approaches which directly engage with local communities. Here we explore some key lessons learnt through a research project which collected perspectives on water quality issues in Peru via an app. Our research discusses the importance and challenges of engaging local participants, use of technology for data collection, and the need for integrating local perspectives with scientific observations.

To be able to adapt to climate change, stakeholders need to be informed about future uncertain climate change hazards. Using freely available output of global hydrological models, we quantified future local changes in water resources and their uncertainty. To communicate these in participatory processes, we propose using “percentile boxes” for supporting the development of flexible strategies for climate risk management worldwide, involving stakeholders and scientists.