Climate resilience means teaching kids how take action, even if its just in small ways in their. communities, so that they can be prepared for how climate change will impact their lives Parents can ...
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 ...
A few years ago, researcher Maya Gislason’s young child came home from school with her crayon drawing of the Earth in 2020 and 2050. “The first was blue and green; the second was a planet on fire,” ...
Experts are finding, however, that one demographic may suffer more than others: young people. A recent flurry of papers has ...
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 ...
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 ...