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Children uprooted in a changing climate
2024-07-28 (or before) in UNICEFYoung people on the move are among the most impacted by climate change. They should be part of shaping the response
Tagged under: Women and Children | Climate Change | Children | Climate Change Impacts
Climate Change, Volume 2 - Information for Children
2024-06-19 (or before) in kids.frontiersin.orgOur climate refers to the different types of weather we have all around the world. Some places are hot, some are cold, some are dry and some are wet. But now, our climate is changing and it's affecting everything and everyone. We know that this is happening because of the pollution we make, like putting greenhouse-gases into the air that trap the sun's heat and make our world get warmer. This is called global warming. <br/><br/>The changes in the climate are hurting people, animals, and plants everywhere and will continue to do so. In this Collection, we will explain what is causing the climate to change, what we can...
Tagged under: Children | Climate Change | Women and Children
‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families
2024-05-10 in The GuardianA fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children
Smoke, heat keeping Canadian kids indoors instead of exercising: report - Greater Victoria News
2024-05-07 in vicnews.comParticipaction says climate change is not helping in the push to move kids away from their screens
Tagged under: Children | Canada | Climate Change Impacts | Forest Fires | Women and Children
How the Oil and Gas Industry Smuggles Corporate Propaganda Into Schools
2024-05-05 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News CoverageSTEM lesson plans from Discovery Education provide an efficient model for oil and gas companies to indoctrinate children.
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children
We’re being swallowed by the ocean and running out of freshwater
2024-05-04 (or before) in UNICEFThe reality of climate change for children in Maldives
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children | Oceans
Rapidly rising levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’ alarm experts
2024-05-01 in The GuardianTrifluoroacetic acid found in drinking water and rain is thought to damage fertility and child development
Tagged under: Children | PFAS aka Forever Chemicals
UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’
2024-04-26 in The GuardianPanel of nearly 100 countries to draw up guidelines for industries that mine raw materials used in low-carbon technology
Tagged under: Children
Bangladesh: Extreme heat kicks 33 million children out of schools
2024-04-25 in The BBCBangladesh has closed schools and colleges due to extreme heat for the second year in a row.
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children
Climate Change Poses a Child Labor ‘Threat Multiplier’ - Bloomberg
2024-04-24 in BloombergGlobal warming is exacerbating the conditions that lead to the workplace exploitation of minors. Now there’s a new way to measure it.
Tagged under: Children
Prenatal exposure to a natural disaster and early development of psychiatric disorders during the preschool years: stress in pregnancy study
2024-03-27 (or before) in acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.comBackground Growing evidence shows an association between in utero exposure to natural disasters and child behavioral problems, but we still know little about the development of specific psychopathol...
Tagged under: Children
Join UNDP Weather Kids Climate Action for Children's Future
2024-03-24 (or before) in weatherkids.orgPledge for climate action with UNDP to protect our children's future. Your commitment can change the 2050 outlook. Act now!
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children
How the UK is falling behind on tackling child poverty
2024-03-17 (or before) in Financial TimesAlmost a third of children in the country are living in relative poverty, which has increased more than any advanced economy
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children
Palette to paycheck: the Lagos gallery helping children make a living from their art
2024-03-13 in The GuardianThe Children’s Art Gallery supports young Nigerian artists from low-income families, helping them sell their work around the world and build a better life
Tagged under: Women and Children | Nigeria | Africa | Children
Testing regime meant to stop toxic chemicals going into NSW landscape products gamed by suppliers
2024-02-16 in The GuardianExclusive: Manufacturers retest contaminated soil fill until it ‘complies’ with regulations and can then be used at childcare centres, schools or parks
Tagged under: Children
Children’s emergency mental health referrals in England soar by 53%
2024-02-07 in The GuardianNHS data exposing a ‘devastating explosion’ of mental illness should be a ‘wake-up call’ for the government, MPs and health leaders say
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
Experts lament ‘appalling decline’ in health of under-fives in UK
2024-02-05 in The GuardianAcademy for Medical Sciences report highlights rising infant mortality, obesity and tooth decay
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
Clouds of suffering can have silver linings – reflections on childhood.
2024-02-04 in Professor Jem Bendell - Deep Adaptation to societal breakdownI know that when I’m anxious I’m not the wisest or kindest version of myself. Because that is the same for most of us, collapse-anticipators fear how people might make difficult situations a …
Tagged under: Collapse | Children
Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack
2024-01-13 in The GuardianCritics condemn ‘cruelty’ of state opting out of federal program to feed children from low-income families during summer break
Tagged under: US Politics | Women and Children | Children
‘The children screamed for hours’: horrors of Hurricane Otis leave devastation for Acapulco’s poorest
2023-11-04 in The GuardianMexico’s Pacific coast was battered by 165mph winds and torrential rain on 25 October. Thousands lost their homes and many now have too little food or water to survive
Tagged under: Mexico | Women and Children | Children
Extreme weather events linked to increased child and forced marriages
2023-09-14 in The GuardianResearchers say families under stress unable to support daughters and look to marry them off
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
In our blood: how the US allowed toxic chemicals to seep into our lives
2023-09-13 in The GuardianMany people don’t know the health risks from chemicals in common household products
Tagged under: PFAS aka Forever Chemicals | Health | Women and Children | Children
Warming trends will likely result in major disturbances of networks of forest fungi
2023-09-08 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyChildren are taught to leave wild mushrooms alone because of their potential to be poisonous. But trees on the other hand depend on fungi for their well-being.
Tagged under: Women and Children | Trees | Children
“Business will kill your children:” Was Andrew Forrest’s climate speech really that “loopy”?
2023-09-03 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economyAndrew Forrest has been described as “loopy” and weird for his striking speech that warns “humanity is at risk” and that “business will kill your children.” Just…
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
General comment No. 26 (2023) on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change
2023-08-30 (or before) in Office of the High Commissioner Human RightsCommittee on the Rights of the Child
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Children
Children have right to clean environment - report - BBC News
2023-08-29 (or before) in The BBCThe UN says countries must act urgently to protect children from the harmful effects of climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Children
Children Have a Right to Sue Nations Over Climate, U.N. Panel Says
2023-08-28 in The New York TimesTagged under: Women and Children | Children
Fracking Linked to Increased Cases of Lymphoma in Pennsylvania Children, Study Finds - Inside Climate News
2023-08-16 by in Inside Climate NewsChildren living within a mile of a natural gas fracking well were up to seven times more likely to suffer from lymphoma, a rare kind of cancer, than those who had no such wells within five miles of their homes, according to a long-awaited study that adds to a growing number of investigations into possible […]
Tagged under: Fracking | Women and Children | Children
‘What if everybody decided not to have children?’ The philosopher questioning humanity’s future
2023-07-22 in The GuardianÉmile Torres has become a thorn in the side of the branch of moral philosophy that advocates prioritising our distant descendants. They explain the danger of utopian movements
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children | Extinction
Past and projected climate change impacts on heat-related child mortality in Africa - IOPscience
2023-07-10 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Climate Change Impacts | Children
Opinion | Our Childrens’ Lungs Are Uniquely Vulnerable to All This Wildfire Smoke
2023-07-02 in The New York TimesTagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
Leader of Kenyan waste pickers: ‘We are the backbone of recycling’
2023-05-13 (or before) in InklAfter a childhood on the dump, John Chweya wants to ensure rights are enshrined in plastic pollution treaty
Tagged under: Children
Air pollution causes harm at all stages of life - report - BBC News
2023-04-18 (or before) in The BBCThe study found exposure to certain particles can lead to miscarriages and stunt children's growth.
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
An Afrofuturist School Program Empowers Children to Envision the Future
2023-03-28 in American Alliance of Museums - American Alliance of MuseumsFuturism is a powerful tool to share with kids—equipping them to think about the world they want to live in when they grow up, challenging them to make it better. Today on the blog, Executive Direc…
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
We should regulate SUVs out of existence | Financial Times
2023-03-27 (or before) in Financial TimesThey’re not only awful for the climate, they’re also killing pedestrians, including children in driveways
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Children face acute risk amid Malawi’s deadliest cholera outbreak
2023-03-10 in The GuardianThe disease, which has killed 1,500 people since last March, has been aggravated by heavy rains and an overburdened health system
Tagged under: Africa | Health | Women and Children | Children
Rochford: Child protection referral lodged after oak tree loss - BBC News
2023-03-03 (or before) in The BBCChildren are at risk from extra pollution after a 100-year-old tree's removal, a councillor says.
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Breaking the Silence: Kids’ Media Can Step Up On Climate Change - This Is Planet Ed
2022-12-07 (or before) in thisisplaneted.org“Breaking the Silence” shows kids’ media has a massive untapped opportunity to meet parent demand, help children navigate the world, and build a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable tomorrow.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Children
Twelve angry children: young jurors call adults to account for climate crisis in The Trials
2022-08-04 in The GuardianDawn King’s new play at the Donmar imagines a reckoning for environmental chaos, presided over by the kids who inherit the mess. We join the writer and cast, including stars of Heartstopper, in rehearsal
Tagged under: Activism | Women and Children | Children
‘We just pray for rain’: Niger is in the eye of the climate crisis – and children are starving
2022-06-20 in The GuardianAguié’s clinic is full of malnourished children, with more dying in villages, as the global food crisis worsens years of drought
Tagged under: Drought | Africa | Women and Children | Children
Here in Poland, “Going Green” Means Burning Even More Coal
2022-05-27 in The NationWith parents and children struggling to breathe, climate activism is a matter of life and death.
Tagged under: Coal | Fossil Fuels | Russia | Women and Children | Activism | Children
Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems
2022-05-22 (or before) in GOV.UKTagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Sustainability | Children
Children on the Road to Nowhere – Watching the World Go Bye
2022-05-15 (or before) in Eliot Jacobson's Collapse of Everything BlogTagged under: Women and Children | Children
Bangladeshi children leaving school to work due to climate crisis | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
2022-05-15 (or before) in Al JazeeraAs families migrate after climate-related disasters, UNICEF says 1.7 million of country’s children are now labourers.
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Met Office forecasts a Britain of militia war, bartering and child labour
2022-01-20 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesIt is 2070 and Britain as we once knew it has vanished. The government has collapsed, the police and justice system no longer exists. Militias control feudal mi
Tagged under: Collapse | Children
‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth - Inside Climate News
2021-11-28 in Inside Climate NewsThis article is part of a series produced in partnership with NBC News and Undark Magazine, a non-profit, editorially independent digital magazine exploring the intersection of science and society. It was 2 a.m. and the sun was shining, as it does day and night in mid-July in Norilsk, a Siberian city 200 miles north of the […]
Tagged under: Arctic | Russia | Women and Children | Children
Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes | Science
2021-10-08 in Science | AAASYoung generations are severely threatened by climate change
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Justice | Women and Children | Children
Young people’s climate anxiety revealed in landmark survey
2021-09-22 in NatureChildren worldwide worry about the future and feel let down by governments, a huge study on attitudes towards climate change has found. Children worldwide worry about the future and feel let down by governments, a huge study on attitudes towards climate change has found.
Tagged under: Climate Anxiety and Grief | Women and Children | Children
The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis
2021-08-20 (or before) in UNICEFIntroducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
If children are to live with the climate crisis, we must green the curriculum | Meryl Batchelder
2021-08-19 in The GuardianSustainability and the environment should be a thread running through every subject, says science teacher Meryl Batchelder
Tagged under: Women and Children | Sustainability | Children
Climate crisis: our children face wars over food and water, EU deputy warns
2021-04-30 in The GuardianExclusive: Frans Timmermans says older people need to make sacrifices to protect the future
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Fossil Fuels | Women and Children | Children
Evidence of Fracking Chemicals Found in Bodies of Pennsylvania Children
2021-03-23 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismOne 9-year-old had 91 times the average level of biomarkers for toluene, a chemical that can damage livers and kidneys.
Tagged under: Fracking | Women and Children | Children
CIFF: Children's Investment Fund Foundation
2021-03-05 (or before) in CIFF: Children's Investment Fund FoundationTagged under: Women and Children | Children
Juliana v. United States — Our Children's Trust
2021-02-16 (or before) in Our Children's TrustTagged under: Women and Children | Children
The life-altering effects heat is having on American children
2021-02-16 in The GuardianGlobal heating takes a disproportionate toll on Black and Latino children – and the danger begins before they are even born
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change - Climatic Change
2020-11-27 (or before) in Springer VerlagMedia reports and public polls suggest that young people in many countries are increasingly factoring climate change into their reproductive choices, but empirical evidence about this phenomenon is lacking. This article reviews the scholarship on this subject and discusses the results of the first empirical study focused on it, a quantitative and qualitative survey of 607 US-Americans between the ages of 27 and 45. While 59.8% of respondents reported being “very” or “extremely concerned” about the carbon footprint of procreation, 96.5% of respondents were “very” or “extremely concerned&r...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Women and Children | Climate Change Mitigation | Children
Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – study
2020-11-27 in The GuardianSurvey of 600 people finds some parents regret having offspring for same reason
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
Half of child psychiatrists surveyed say patients have environment anxiety
2020-11-20 in The GuardianResearch finds young people in England feel growing distress about the future of the planet
Tagged under: Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Children
Reuters finds 3,810 U.S. areas with lead poisoning double Flint’s
2020-09-01 (or before) in ReutersSince last year, Reuters has obtained neighborhood-level blood lead testing results for 34 states and the District of Columbia. This data allows the public its first hyper-local look at communities where children tested positive for lead exposure in recent years.
Tagged under: USA | Louisiana | California | Health | Women and Children | Children
Coronavirus shows us it’s time to rethink everything. Let's start with education | George Monbiot
2020-05-12 in The GuardianThe pandemic is a tough lesson in the workings of the natural world – and proves how vital a knowledge of ecology really is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Young people face 'altered world', say lawyers in child climate case
2020-05-06 by in The Straits Times - Breaking News, Lifestyle & Multimedia NewsLONDON (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION) - Young people face a "fundamentally altered world" that threatens their human rights and safety unless governments take effective action to curb climate change, lawyers for Greta Thunberg and other child climate activists said on Tuesday (May 5). . Read more at straitstimes.com.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Climate Change | Children
Greta Thunberg and children's group hit back at attempt to throw out climate case
2020-05-05 in The GuardianBrazil, France and Germany say UN can’t hear complaint against five countries of flouting child rights to clean air
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Brazil | Germany | France | Women and Children | Children
World failing to provide children with a healthy life and a climate fit for their future: WHO-UNICEF-Lancet
2020-02-19 (or before) in World Health OrganisationNo single country is adequately protecting children’s health, their environment and their futures, finds a landmark report released today by a Commission of over 40 child and adolescent health experts from around the world. As climate and commercial threats intensify, WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission presses for radical rethink on child health.
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
The world is failing to ensure children have a 'liveable planet', report finds
2020-02-19 in The GuardianChildren with tiny carbon footprint suffer twofold from poor health and effects of the climate crisis
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
CHILDREN Of The Ignorant : New Zealand Schools To Terrify Children About The ‘Climate Crisis’
2020-01-14 in Anthropogenic Climate - TRACKING ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE ALARMISM“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will nev…
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
2019-12-16 in The GuardianDell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRC
Tagged under: Tesla | Congo | Cobalt | Africa | Women and Children | Children
The Human Rights of Children Depend on Urgent Climate Action - The WorldPost - Berggruen Institute
2019-12-10 (or before) in Berggruen InstituteFailing to stop fossil fuel production violates children’s rights to life and health.
Tagged under: Health | Women and Children | Children
Child miners aged four at Congo cobalt mine | Daily Mail Online
2019-12-01 (or before) in Daily Mail OnlineDorsen, just eight, is one of 40,000 children working daily in the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The terrible price they will pay for our clean air is ruined health and a likely early death.
Tagged under: Congo | Cobalt | Health | Women and Children | Children
The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate
2019-11-14 (or before) in The LancetThe Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Children
Climate crisis will affect lifelong health of young, warn doctors
2019-11-13 in The GuardianLancet Countdown tracks impacts of global heating covering disease, wildfires and malnutrition
Tagged under: Wildfires | Health | Women and Children | Children
Heathrow expansion violates climate rights of children, say lawyers
2019-10-17 in The GuardianAppeal court to hear fresh challenge against plans for construction of third runway
Tagged under: Activism | Greenhouse Gases | Air Travel | Women and Children | Children
Greta Thunberg, 15 kids file UN complaint to force nations to fight climate change
2019-09-23 in Climate Liability Newsprint By Karen Savage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and 15 other young people from around the world have filed a human rights complaint against five countries for continuing to promote fossil fuels and failing to reduce carbon emissions. The group has asked the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to …
Tagged under: Litigation | Climate Change | United Nations | Greta Thunberg | Activism | Children | Women and Children
Parents told not to terrify children over climate change as rising numbers treated for 'eco-anxiety'
2019-09-17 (or before) in The TelegraphRising numbers of children are being treated for “eco-anxiety”, experts have said, as they warn parents against “terrifying” their youngsters with talk of climate catastrophe.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Women and Children | Children
UK is 'sleepwalking into crisis of childhood', charity warns
2019-07-08 in The GuardianAction for Children found young people struggle to fit in and worry about issues such as Brexit
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
'Hell is coming': week-long heatwave begins across Europe
2019-06-24 in The GuardianTemperatures could hit 40C from Spain to Switzerland, with authorities urging children and older people to stay indoors
Tagged under: Spain | Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | Women and Children | France | Children
Climate crisis: today’s children face lives with tiny carbon footprints
2019-04-10 in The GuardianNext generation must keep their own carbon levels at a fraction of their grandparents’ in order to prevent catastrophe
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Women and Children | Children
Capitalism is destroying the Earth. We need a new human right for future generations | George Monbiot
2019-03-15 in The GuardianThe children on climate strike are right: their lives should not be sacrificed to satisfy our greed, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Capitalism | Women and Children | Children | Activism
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