Late last month, Hurricane Melissa pummeled Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean. It was one of the strongest Category 5 storms on record, and yet it’s just one among many severe and devastating ...

Climate change is reshaping parenthood plans as young adults weigh having children and parents navigate climate anxiety.

VANCOUVER — A child psychiatrist and pediatrician has described how children are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects ...

Tom's parents were packing to evacuate from bushfires in regional Victoria five years ago when they realized they couldn't find Tom, who was only two and a half. After a frantic search, they found him ...

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As climate change brings more extreme weather events, strengthening families before disasters strike can help protect children's health and well-being, says Mary McKay, a professor at the Brown School ...

Children are especially sensitive to climate change impacts, in part because they are still growing and developing. They spend more time playing outdoors and have less control over their surrounding ...

We’re experiencing a Super El Niño at the moment, with dramatic demonstrations every day of the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. I’m deeply sad that my grandchildren may ...

Just over half of the children born in 2020 will face unprecedented exposure to heatwaves over their lifetime — even under a conservative projection for how climate change will unfold over the next 75 ...