but several years before that ipcc report was released, when climate change was the subject of greater scientific controversy, supinda bunyavanich, md, now a clinical fellow at harvard medical school in boston, noticed that studies examining the potential consequences of warming temperatures on human...
An additional 160 million kids are growing up in areas suffering severe droughts, mostly in Africa, UNICEF said in the report titled "Unless We Act Now." "Children will bear the brunt of climate change. They are already bearing a lot of the impact," said Nicholas Rees, a policy speci...
Parents will always have the urge to protect their children from harsh truths. One of these isclimate change. Unfortunately, however, choosing to sweep the matter under the rug doesn’t solve the problem or even make it disappear. You need to somehow start talking to your kids about climate ...
However, parents make many more important decisions in daily life that have consequences, if not always for future generations, at least for years and decades to come that also shape the lives of the next generation. Consider, for instance, voting: in many countries, adults are not allowed to...
she said the story wasn’t originally intended as a lesson about the consequences of climate change, but it morphed into one. “A lot of STEM teachers don’t know how to teach climate change … I’m not reinventing the wheel, I am just putting the wheel together in a different way,”...
a host of others experiencing major disasters in their everyday lives, mostly as the consequences of historical and present ecological disasters. The stories provide a window into the future and the ongoing consequences of widespread climate change and the threat it will present to children’s ...
The theme for Earth Day 2024 is “PLANET VS. PLASTICS” Climate change describes a change in global climate patterns attributed largely to the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere produced by the use of fossil fuels. Increasing the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere inte...
One of the hardest things is having to see the consequences of climate change. For example, the drought in the Horn of Africa, the flooding in Pakistan, or the recent hurricanes in the United States. It’s very sad to see all those events 6 (happen). ...
“We often give parents advice or have expectations of how parents should be handling these really difficult conversations with little to no support,” Bechard explains, and that can have unintended negative consequences for young people. Whether talking with trusted friends, a support group or a ...
(Family Features) Climate change is an issue that impacts everyone, especially children. The impacts can be seen first-hand, as the planet warms, and human fingerprints are all over the consequences: bigger, stronger hurricanes; deadly heat waves; more intense downpours; and devastating wildfires...