Our project is a comprehensive, interactive web-based solution aimed at increasing public awareness of climate change through storytelling, interactive features, and AI-driven forecasting. The platform is divided into three core components:

Climate Stories:The app presents immersive stories that depict the unique environmental challenges and features of Brazil (representing the South), Egypt (Neutral), and Germany (representing the North). These stories are designed to engage users and provide a deeper understanding of each country's climate situation, supported by charts and graphs. While the website is in English, each country has voice narrations in its native language—Egyptian Arabic, for example, is used to engage more Egyptian listeners, in alignment with Cairo Space Apps.
AI Model for Climate Forecasting:The app incorporates an AI-driven model to forecast future climate outcomes by applying AI models to GeoTIFF images of current maps. The model predicts future climate changes based on current CO₂ emission trends, offering users a glimpse of potential long-term environmental impacts if action is not taken. Developed using Python, the AI is trained on NASA’s Air-Sea CO₂ Flux and SEDAC Gridded World Population Density datasets. We used cnn-lstm model for the former and linear regression fitting model for the latter.
Interactive Game:The game encourages users to make eco-friendly choices that influence the progression of the story, emphasising the importance of individual actions on the environment. Players are presented with real-life scenarios where they must make environmentally conscious decisions, which are rewarded within the game, reinforcing the significance of personal responsibility in combating climate change.

Benefits of our Solution:

Integrated Solution
Understandable by all humans regardless of their education level
Engageable
Encourage them to take action through two techniques: fun education and warning.

Our Goal:

Not all humans have the ability to be well-educated. They don’t know the significance of each decision they make. Hence, the goal is to simplify the complex data of climate to the general audience. We reached the story to engage them. Afterwards, we want them to interact and understand their impact. Because we understand storytelling is not enough, we made AI predictions to warn them. Concisely, our goal is not only to tell an interesting story, but leverage all tools (AI & Game) to make them have an action.

Tools and coding languages:

Tools: Google Colab, Anaconda Navigator, Visual Studio Code, Kaggle
Languages: For Web development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, For AI implemented: python

2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge

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