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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.
How climate change is clobbering kids' health
Burning fossil fuels affects a child from the womb onward. Read why Dr. Renee Salas thinks climate action can make kids safer and healthier.
Climate change will fundamentally shape the lives of children born in 2019
From extreme heat to flooding, climate change disproportionately harms children.
Climate change will affect “every single stage” of a child’s life, health researchers warn
We need to focus on climate solutions to protect public health.
Why climate change poses a particular threat to child health
Dr. Renee Salas stresses the dangers that climate change impacts like extreme heat have on vulnerable populations and the need for action.
Doctors: Warmer world is unhealthier place for children
Renee N. Salas discusses the health crisis stemming from climate change. Read more about the impacts and who feels them the most.
Climate change is already damaging health of world’s children, threatening lifelong impact
Without radical emissions reductions, climate change will define health for generations.
Making young minds resilient to disasters
Strategies for building resilience in the face of toxic stress caused by natural disasters.
Climate change is harming children's health—and it's going to get worse
On Children's Environmental Health Day, our Co-Director Dr. Aaron Bernstein talked about the health impacts of climate change on kids and how we can join them in taking action.
On climate, the young take the lead
Our Co-Director Aaron Bernstein on why we must listen to the next generation as they lead the movement to heal our planet.
How climate change is affecting our children's health
Why climate changes health and why children's voices need to be heard when discussing climate solutions.
