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The environmental issues that happened in the northern part of Central Java are getting worse. Human activity is believed as the main factor of environmental damage. The developing in infrastructure, changing the coastal area into harbor and industry and also habit in throwing waste material into the sea will contribute great damage in the environment. Then, preventive action is needed to overcome this problem. By changing the young generation-s perception, awareness, and action with the integration of environmental literacy in learning practice will become the best way to fix these challenges. This research is aimed to develop environmental literacy-integrated learning in high schools and measure student-s environmental literacy as a result of the implementation of this integrated learning. The environmental literacy-integrated learning combines environmental literacy aspects with problem-based learning model. In addition, a set of learning media and module based environmental literacy are used as supporting materials in this research. This research use mix method with a qualitative approach to examine the quality of the environmental literacy-integrated learning. The quantitative approach also used with quasi-experimental design to measure the effect of environmental literacy-integrated learning which involving 30 students in the experimental class and 30 students in the control class. The score of environmental literacy is taken after the implementation of environmental-integrated learning using Middle schools environmental literacy surveys (MSELS) questionnaires. The data then analyze using ancova. The qualitative data is also used to evaluate the implementation of environmental literacy-integrated learning. The result shows that environmental literacy-integrated learning gives positive impact in student-s comprehension in all environmental literacy aspects. In addition, a statistical analysis also shows significant value as 0.000 (p< 0.05). This result indicates that environmental literacy-integrated learning can improve student-s environmental literacy