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Team: Active school

Italy 16 years old, 15 years old   10, 6 / 6

Project title:

Temperature Guardian

Research question

How much carbon dioxide can be taken out of the air through trees in order to reduce global warming?

Identify the local environmental/climate problem you want to investigate

Tree cover in the city park near our school in order to monitor and safeguard the tree species present as many studies point to trees as the first solution to global and local problems of heating and thermo hygrometric well-being of citizens

Project topic

Global warming

Describe how you plan to investigate the problem identified and which data you plan to analyse.

The study concerns carbon in our lives, specifically one of its most discussed compounds: carbon dioxide.
Through analysis of temperature trends in recent years, the extent of the climate problem in our area is identified, and then the contribution of trees as a remedy to global warming is monitored.


Your feedback

Expert feedback Phase 1 - 2023-2024
Is the suggested problem a problem that the students can actually investigate? Is it feasible, realistic? Please explain why or why not. Is the relation with climate/local environment worked out? Where necessary indicate the wider scientific context to which the identified problem belongs.