{"id":79521,"date":"2026-10-04T07:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/more-than-1200-colorado-students-have-earned-a-climate-seal-were-the-ones-growing-up-in-this-world\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:54:55","slug":"more-than-1200-colorado-students-have-earned-a-climate-seal-were-the-ones-growing-up-in-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/more-than-1200-colorado-students-have-earned-a-climate-seal-were-the-ones-growing-up-in-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,200 Colorado students have earned a climate \u2018seal\u2019: \u2018We\u2019re the ones growing up in this world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statewide initiative pairs climate-focused coursework with community service \u2013 and is spreading to other states<\/p>\n<p>As a student at a high school not far from Denver\u2019s main airport, Anthony Mu\u00f1oz wondered whether the jet fuel from airplanes flying above his campus was harming living things.<\/p>\n<p>An avid gardener, Mu\u00f1oz partnered with a local university to create a garden on the campus of his charter school, Vista Academy, filling it with native plants that could detect ground-level ozone pollution. He also worked with climate scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a federal office in nearby Boulder, who directed Mu\u00f1oz on what data to collect, what the condition of leaves reveals about air quality and why milkweed matters for monarch butterfly migration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/04\/colorado-climate-high-school-students\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statewide initiative pairs climate-focused coursework with community service \u2013 and is spreading to other states As a student at a high school not far from Denver\u2019s main airport, Anthony Mu\u00f1oz wondered whether the jet fuel from airplanes flying above his campus was harming living things. An avid gardener, Mu\u00f1oz partnered with a local university &#8230; <a title=\"More than 1,200 Colorado students have earned a climate \u2018seal\u2019: \u2018We\u2019re the ones growing up in this world\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/more-than-1200-colorado-students-have-earned-a-climate-seal-were-the-ones-growing-up-in-this-world\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about More than 1,200 Colorado students have earned a climate \u2018seal\u2019: \u2018We\u2019re the ones growing up in this world\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}