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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.
Pollen season grows 20 days in 30 years as climate crisis hits hay fever sufferers
Our Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein points to the worsening allergy season as one of many reasons for major climate action now.
New pediatrician network puts spotlight on climate change’s effects on children
As the effects of climate change play out worldwide, pediatricians see the evidence in their offices.
The World's First Death Attributed to Air Pollution Could Spark the Change We Need
A young girl in the UK is the first person in the world to have a death certificate that lists air pollution as a cause of death. Our Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein comments on the impact of burning fossil fuels on child health.
Study: Pittsburgh kids near polluting sites have higher asthma rates
Our Research Scientist Jonathan Buonocore comments on a new study that finds Pittsburgh kids near polluting sites have higher asthma rates
Strong children in a toxic world
Our Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein explains how to nurture resilient young minds amid the crises of COVID-19 and climate change.
Season 4, Episode 3: Young and Wild and Sick
Connect the Dots host Rob Verchick talks to Dr. Aaron Bernstein and others about how the climate crisis hurts children.
Interview: Dr. Aaron Bernstein
Dr. Aaron Bernstein talks about solutions to protect children from the health harms of climate change.
Reducing air pollution has helped children in Northeast U.S., study finds
States in the Northeastern U.S. have made a considerable effort to make their air cleaner by reducing toxic mercury, sulfur dioxide and greenhouse gases emitted by the region's power plants, improving the health of children in the area in the process.
Air pollution and children’s health
A new study finds that a program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in the Eastern U.S. also has significant health benefits for children in the region.
The relationship between COVID-19 and climate change
Dr. Aaron Bernstein explains the issue of COVID-19, climate change, and the health of children around the world.
