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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.
Allergies
This guide explains how climate change impacts allergies and how you can keep your child with allergies healthy in a changing climate.Asthma
This guide explains how climate change impacts asthma and how you can keep your child healthy in a changing climate.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.
A Pediatrician’s Guide to Climate Change-Informed Primary Care
A practical approach for connecting climate change with health during pediatric well visits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Obama’s EPA Chief: ‘Sometimes you need to listen to the kids’
Our Director Gina McCarthy spoke about inequality, corruption, and the young Americans who've had enough with climate inaction.
Children's health adversely impacted by climate change
A primer on the many different ways that climate is a health and equity issue—especially for kids.
'Like a sunburn on your lungs': how does the climate crisis impact health?
Our Co-Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein and Research Fellow Dr. Renee Salas share insight into how the climate crisis threatens public health and complicates healthcare.
Gina McCarthy encourages young climate change activists
Gina McCarthy, former EPA administrator and current director of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), recently sat down with two teenage climate change activists to discuss the challenges climate change presents, the history of environmental activism, and the importance of optimism. In the interview, published…
Air-blood barrier in immature lungs more permeable to nanoparticles
Using a rat model, researchers found that newborn lungs may have enhanced susceptibility to inhaled nanoparticles.
Climate change-related allergies could put more kids in ER
More children could wind up in emergency rooms because of allergy attacks spurred by climate change, according to experts. A June 6, 2019 article in Yale Climate Connections outlined how rising temperatures caused by climate change are already lengthening allergy season. With spring starting earlier and fall starting later, people are being exposed to pollen…
Climate change could make children's allergies worse
Climate change makes allergy seasons longer and more intense. Co-director Dr. Aaron Bernstein weighs in with some solutions.
Many Kids Aren't Taught About Climate Change In School, New Poll Finds, But Most Parents Want Them To Be
The NPR Poll showed 80% of parents believe it should be taught, and a separate NPR poll said 86% of teachers agree.
Climate change takes heavy toll on health, lawmakers told
Increased rates of asthma, the spread of disease, and more mental health issues are all linked to climate change, experts told a Congressional panel on April 30, 2019. Among those testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform was Aaron Bernstein, co-director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at…
House Panel Talks Health Effects of Climate Change
Our Co-director Dr. Aaron Bernstein testified to Congress about the impact of climate change on children's health.