When UC Davis professor and agricultural entomologist Christian Nansen gives assignments to his students, he expects them to be thoughtful, insightful and creative.  Sometimes they submit written reports, sometimes videos, but one student recently took an assignment to a whole new level.

She wrote, rapped and produced a video that awed her professor, her classmates and her friends.

High school and university instructors who address climate change, including those at the University of California, Davis, should focus more on active learning and living laboratories “to promote student empowerment and mitigate growing concerns about mental health and climate anxiety among young people,” says Professor Christian Nansen of the Department of Entomology and Nematology.