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Burning gas, coal and oil costs global economy $8bn a day and particularly harms children

Today’s children are facing climate crisis-related health issues, warns The Lancet’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the annual research collaboratively conducted by 35 global institutions...

A "human biomonitoring" study, jointly conducted by the German Environment Ministry and the Robert Koch Institute, is sounding the clarion warning that plastic pollution is present — and not just in our oceans, estuaries...

Asthma among children — close to 67,000 new cases — is hitting home in 18 European countries because of small particulates contaminating the air, according to a new report...

Coaching scientists to play well together News Release 18-Jul-2019 Free tool shows how to avoid fights over data and authorship conflicts Northwestern University ‘You stole my idea’ or ‘I’m not getting...

From Gizmodo  science This Striking Climate Change Visualisation Is Now Customisable for Any Place on Earth By Brian Kahn on 18 Jun 2019 at 2:30PM When University of Reading climate scientist released his warming stripes...

Teaching union to debate call for schools to oppose fossil fuel giant’s backing of school fitness event

In the blur of school activity, students read, write, calculate and doodle. With that vision in mind, no company has created a bigger connection with the educational world than Crayola, monarch of colored pencils, crayons...

As the saying goes, children are our future. Because they will be the next voice in striving toward a sustainable planet, they must first be aware of the problems and possible solutions. But implying that the earth will eventually...

Scientists at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Auckland have created a 16-part questionnaire for parents called the CNI-PPC (Connected to Nature Index-Parents of Preschool Children) to identify how well children...

While it’s obvious that we want the children in our lives to have only the most natural, clean, organic clothes and toys, it’s also important to our planet that we introduce sustainable goods from the start...

Bad news for anyone who likes to eat cereal, or granola bars, or anything that contains oats at all: a recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) tested 45 conventional oat products for the presence of glyphosate,...

Brick may often be seen as boring and traditional, but that’s not the case when the material falls into the hands of KIENTRUC O. The Vietnamese architecture studio creatively used the ancient building block to breathe life...

Kids could be especially vulnerable to climate change-related health risks, and a new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) article once again sounds the alarm...

While enjoying an evening walk at Douglas Lake in East Tennessee, 11-year-old Ryleigh Taylor stumbled upon a magnificent discovery: the 475-million-year-old fossilized remains of an ancient sea creature called a trilobite...