Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The educational landscape of climate change is itself changing dramatically after key deletions from Florida's science textbooks. A new report by WUSF News and The Hechinger Report found significant changes to how Florida students are being taught, from language tweaks (“climate change” becomes “changes in the environment”) to factual elisions (instead of learning that an additional 1 degree Celsius will kill another 150,000 people a year, the textbooks merely say that “human health will … be affected"). We talk to one of the reporters behind the new investigation about why the changes are happening and how they could affect beliefs and attitudes about health, species extinction and sustainability.
Guests:
Jessica Meszaros, reporter/host at WUSF in Tampa, part of the Florida Climate Change Reporting Network
Jalicia Lewis, community outreach and engagement lead, Jacksonville Climate Coalition
The educational landscape of climate change is itself changing dramatically after key deletions from Florida's science textbooks. A new report by WUSF News and The Hechinger Report found significant changes to how Florida students are being taught, from language tweaks (“climate change” becomes “changes in the environment”) to factual elisions (instead of learning that an additional 1 degree Celsius will kill another 150,000 people a year, the textbooks merely say that “human health will … be affected"). We talk to one of the reporters behind the new investigation about why the changes are happening and how they could affect beliefs and attitudes about health, species extinction and sustainability.
Guests:
Jessica Meszaros, reporter/host at WUSF in Tampa, part of the Florida Climate Change Reporting Network
Jalicia Lewis, community outreach and engagement lead, Jacksonville Climate Coalition
