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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.
Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy: Climate change hurts children's health
"We care about our kids way more than we care about polar bears." Our Director Gina McCarthy talks climate with Yale Climate Connections.
The Big 3: How climate change affects children’s health
Aaron Bernstein weighs in on what the health effects of climate change are on children and how parents can keep their children healthy and safe.
Global Climate Action Summit: A focus on kids and climate
For anyone who thinks that the problem of global climate change is too big or distant or not relevant to their life, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy has this to say: “If you’re wondering who the face of climate change is, it’s not a polar bear, it’s my grandson."
Stop climate change to save kids
Children are among the most vulnerable to climate change, facing greater risks of asthma attacks and mental health problems as well as developmental delays and changes in their genetic makeup.
How to measure climate action at the summit and beyond
While organizations and leaders at the Global Climate Action Summit will be focused on nuanced strategies to meet carbon emissions reduction goals, the central measure of success should be the impact those policies have on improving the health of our kids today, while working towards a healthier planet.
Heat Waves Can Dull Even Young Minds, Study Says
As America sweats through another summer, new research suggests that heat waves can slow the brains of even healthy young adults.
Heat Waves make it hard for people to think, Scientists find
Harvard scientists reported that students in dorms who have air conditioning during heat waves do better on cognitive tests than students who live with the hot temperatures.
Heat might really be getting to your brain
We might be able to blame the heat for our bad decisions