Environmental disasters have shaped the lives of children across the country. Devastating hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and other environmental disasters have been linked to climate change by ...

Sept. 8 (UPI) --Nearly 6 million children and young people in Latin America will fall into poverty by 2030 because of climate change's impact on their communities, a recent report predicts. However, ...

Nearly 80 percent of the world's poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by ...

Kids born in 2020 are more likely to experience “one-in-10,000-year events” throughout their lives. A stark new study published on May 7 in Nature laid bare the extreme climate crises that today’s ...

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 ...

Some young people are hesitant to start a family because they are worried about the impact it will have on the environment. But some experts argue, there are good reasons to still consider having ...

This story is a collaboration between Vox and Grist and builds on Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a project by Vox, Grist, and The 19th that examines how climate change impacts ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused on understanding global climate impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities to ...

Imagine the impact of climate change is irreversible, and decades of flooding, famine, pandemics and war have upended life on ...

All of us depend on the ocean, which regulates climate and affects our weather. Oceans also contain vast ecosystems, provide nutrition and support livelihoods here in Connecticut. But climate change ...