Volume 13, Number 02, January 2023

A Smart Mobile Application Designed to Educate and Aid the Public in Combating Climate Change

  Authors

Kerry Zhang, University High School, California, USA

  Abstract

We aim to tackle the issue of improving the global situation regarding climate change by creating a mobile application named Climerry, which educates its users on recent news related to climate on the home screen. Climerry also features a second tab that allows users to view opportunities to improve the climate change situation in the vicinity by typing in a ZIP code or city name. Some examples of opportunities include beach cleanups and tree-planting sessions. By informing and encouraging the general public to become more involved in the effort to preserve our planet, the negative effects of climate change may be much less significant in the future. To prove the effectiveness of this application in encouraging the general public to take action against climate change, one experiment was performed to gauge how much knowledge regarding climate change the participants had gained by using the application. Another experiment tested the reliability of the news API used in the application by testing the accuracy of information in each of the selected articles in the featured news section of the application. The result of the experiments indicated that the application is useful when it comes to providing accurate news and educating its users on the topic of climate change.

  Keywords

Climate Change, News, Global Warming, Social Issue.