More extreme weather and shifting growing seasons are putting pressure on school meal programs, which serve nearly half a billion children worldwide. Jennifer Burney, a professor of Earth system ...

Many of today’s children will experience an ‘unprecedented life’ owing to climate change. Just over half of the children born in 2020 will face unprecedented exposure to heatwaves over their lifetime ...

Asthma, flooding, wildfires, and Lyme disease, four major consequences of global warming, are increasingly affecting the health of our children in the Lehigh Valley. The long-term consequences of ...

A global survey of young people aged 16 to 25 found that 84% are at least moderately worried about climate change, and nearly half say it negatively affects their daily lives. (Dana DiFilippo | New ...

A few years ago, researcher Maya Gislason's young child came home from school with her crayon drawing of Earth in 2020 and 2050. "The first was blue and green; the second was a planet on fire," she ...

Mike Hoffmann is Professor Emeritus, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and faculty fellow with the Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University. He is lead author of “Our Changing ...

Climate change is no longer a distant threat, it is a reality that is already reshaping our world. Rising temperatures, erratic weather patterns, and increasing natural disasters are impacting ...

As summer gets underway, climate scientists have a warning: The season could be a scorcher, and children could be particularly at risk to the dangers that presents. Summer has become hotter in most ...

Climate change, global warming, environmental degradation, and species extinction – these are among the pressing and controversial issues grabbing the headlines. We adults wrestle with tough questions ...

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Tuesday released a study that highlights the link between climate vulnerability and ...

Sept. 8 (UPI) --Nearly 6 million children and young people in Latin America will fall into poverty by 2030 because of climate change's impact on their communities, a recent report predicts. However, ...