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How kids are making sense of climate change and extreme weather

NPR's Student Podcast Challenge yielded stories about how students around the U.S. are thinking about and responding to climate change. Here are some of their ideas.
Source: Angela Hsieh

When three fifth-graders in Washington state sat down to make a podcast, they didn't have to look far to find a good topic.

"Wildfires are a problem and they're dangerous," they say in their podcast from Chautauqua Elementary School, on Vashon

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