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Showing how climate solutions and transitioning to clean energy protects children from dangerous pollutants and helps them live healthier lives today and in the future.

 

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Allergies

This guide explains how climate change impacts allergies and how you can keep your child with allergies healthy in a changing climate.
Boy playing outside on a swing

Asthma

This guide explains how climate change impacts asthma and how you can keep your child healthy in a changing climate.
Children studying in school

Brain Development

This guide explains how climate change impacts children's brains and how you can keep your child healthy in a changing climate.

Children's Health

Increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere are leading to higher temperatures, more intense storms, and lengthy droughts—all of which can deeply affect children’s health.
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Equity

This guide explains which children are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts and how climate solutions can prioritize frontline communities whose health and safety are the most at risk.
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Heat and Health

This guide explains how climate change impacts heat-related illness and how you can keep your child healthy in a warming climate.
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Mental Health

This guide explains how climate change matters to your child’s mental health and some steps that you can take to keep your child healthy in a changing climate.
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Pregnancy: Low Birth Weight

This guide explains how climate change impacts low birth weight and how you can keep yourself and your developing fetus healthy in a changing climate.
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Pregnancy: Preterm Birth

This guide explains how climate change impacts preterm birth and how you can keep yourself and your developing fetus healthy in a changing climate.
The Fort McMurray fire burns behind a parking lot with cars and children

Wildfires and Health

This guide explains how wildfires impact children’s health and how you can keep your child healthy before, during, and after a wildfire.

Warm-Season Temperatures and Emergency Department Visits among Children with Health Insurance

A new study looks at the impacts of extreme heat on children.

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A Pediatrician’s Guide to Climate Change-Informed Primary Care

A practical approach for connecting climate change with health during pediatric well visits.

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Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide

New research finds that deaths from fossil fuel emissions are higher than previously thought—more than 8 million people per year, worldwide.

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2019 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Policy Brief for the U.S.

Every child born today will be affected by climate change. How we respond will shape the health of children across the globe.

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House Dust in Mining-Impacted Communities May Impact Children's Health

Young children are a particular concern because early exposures to metals commonly found at mining sites are associated with neurodevelopmental deficits.

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Climate Change and Children's Health

Climate change represents a major threat to child health. This review presents the latest data that demonstrate how climate change affects children's health and to identify the principal ways in which climate change puts children's health at risk.

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Childhood Asthma Acute Primary Care Visits, Traffic, and Traffic-Related Pollutants

This analysis suggests that traffic is a contributor to more acute asthma episodes in children.

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Children, Climate Justice, and Lessons From Puerto Rico

Among the many examples that underscore the urgency of climate action to protect children’s welfare, the case of Puerto Rico proves especially compelling.

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What's Climate Change Doing to Our Kids' Health?

Our Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein answers questions about what parents can do to protect their kids from the health impacts of climate change.

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Summer Heat and Children Emergency Department Visits

When summer temperatures rise, so do kids' visits to the emergency room—but not just for heat-related illness, and not just on the hottest days.

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Environmental Racism and Climate Change — Missed Diagnoses

Our ClimateMD leader Dr. Renee Salas describes how environmental racism, climate change, and health are interconnected.

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What Earth Day means to our children

A healthier planet nurtures healthier young patients, says our Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein in his Earth Day Coverage column.

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Pediatricians’ voices grow louder on climate’s impact on child health, equity

“Our job is to keep children healthy, and we can’t do that without tackling climate change," says our Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein.

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Q&A: Gaurab Basu on climate change, racial justice, and COVID-19

April 9, 2021–Climate change is affecting all corners of the world, but historically marginalized communities are disproportionally bearing its health and economic consequences. Gaurab Basu, a physician with the Cambridge Health Alliance and a health equity fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,…

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Pollen seasons are getting longer, driven by climate change

Our Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein says that greater exposure to pollen can be a big problem, particularly when combined with other factors related to climate change.

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Harvard Chan C-CHANGE announces Youth Summits on Climate and Public Health to empower the next generation of leaders

Summer program will prepare high school students to take climate and public health action in their communities.

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Pediatricians say climate changes are impacting the health of children around the world

As an advisor on environmental health to the American Academy of Pediatrics, our Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein helps pediatricians understand the connections between climate and kids' health.

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