Climate resilience means teaching kids how take action, even if its just in small ways in their. communities, so that they can be prepared for how climate change will impact their lives Parents can ...

Many of today’s children will experience an ‘unprecedented life’ owing to climate change. Just over half of the children born in 2020 will face unprecedented exposure to heatwaves over their lifetime ...

More extreme weather and shifting growing seasons are putting pressure on school meal programs, which serve nearly half a billion children worldwide. Jennifer Burney, a professor of Earth system ...

This story is a collaboration between Vox and Grist and builds on Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a project by Vox, Grist, and The 19th that examines how climate change impacts ...

As summer gets underway, climate scientists have a warning: The season could be a scorcher, and children could be particularly at risk to the dangers that presents. Summer has become hotter in most ...

A few years ago, researcher Maya Gislason's young child came home from school with her crayon drawing of Earth in 2020 and 2050. "The first was blue and green; the second was a planet on fire," she ...

Kids born in 2020 are more likely to experience “one-in-10,000-year events” throughout their lives. A stark new study published on May 7 in Nature laid bare the extreme climate crises that today’s ...

Mike Hoffmann is Professor Emeritus, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and faculty fellow with the Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University. He is lead author of “Our Changing ...

As a result, the cognitive development, and the motor and behavioral development are compromised,” Castro said The risks don’t stop there. The American Academy of Pediatrics estimated 10 years ago ...

Bethany Wilcox has always wanted to have kids. “Seeing my parents and how much satisfaction and fulfillment they seemed to have from raising my sister and me, I always wanted that," Wilcox said. "I ...