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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.
What combating climate change can teach us about fighting COVID-19
A pediatrician's view on how climate solutions are pandemic solutions, and the implications for children's health.
Rebuilding a better world for our kids after COVID-19
Gina McCarthy and Christiana Figueres write that we need to follow our instincts to protect each other when it comes to caring for the planet.
The upside of the pandemic: Our planet is healing
The pandemic is a chance for us to reset and to change our habits to create a healthier future for our children.
How to breathe easier during allergy season?
A pediatrician's perspective on a warming planet and longer pollen seasons.
How air pollution is impacting our kids and what we can do about it
Children are most vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution, but parents can help with the effects.
A focus on news about the environment
The Australian bush fires, the politics of climate change, and sea level rise in Boston’s disadvantaged neighborhood were among the topics discussed in a new environmental news roundtable on the WGBH radio show “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” One of the panelists featured in the roundtable, which premiered on January 12, 2020, was pediatrician…
Climate-related wheezing, allergy, trauma affecting practice
Climate change is a health problem affecting everything from allergies to how our bodies interact with medicine. Dr. Bernstein weighs in.
Climate change exposes future generations to life-long health harm
The Lancet Countdown on Climate and Health exposed alarming health impacts of the climate crisis, especially on children.
Climate crisis will affect lifelong health of young, warn doctors
Children are especially vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis according to the new 2019 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate.
The climate crisis will profoundly affect the health of every child alive today, report says
We need climate action to keep us healthy and safe, especially children. Dr. Renee Salas discusses the Lancet Countdown 2019 report on climate and health.
