Children feel the threat of climate change and want to drive radical action to safeguard their future - so we should too, argues children's author SUE HAMPTON.
… Children need sensitive climate change … | 25th September 2018 Comment Recycled Children School Education Climate Change Activism kids-2835431_960_720.jpg Children feel the threat of climate change and …
La Guajira, a dusty but spartanly beautiful region in Colombia's desert north is in the grips of a crisis. Climate change, desertification and water shortages have combined to create a perfect storm for the local rural community: a drought so severe some places did not feel a drop of rain for three years writes LAURA DIXON
… raises her tiny, reluctant arms. "All these children have malnutrition," he says, looking around the children's ward in the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios hospital. The room is so hot the children's hair sticks to their heads, while …
Thousands of children face fines from schools for striking for climate action - but protest is a human right.
… 45401830745_a5d69bb3b5_z.jpg Thousands of children face fines from schools for striking … about being penalised with fines for their children striking from school over climate … in court if they have to. Thousands of children in more than 50 UK towns and cities …
Largest scientific study of its kind finds climate anxiety affects the daily life and functioning of nearly half of children and young people surveyed globally.
… daily life and functioning of nearly half of children and young people surveyed globally. … inaugural study, based on surveys with 10,000 children and young people aged between 16 … from the UK said they were “hesitant to have children,” while 57 percent said governments …
The acclaimed buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks to the Ecologist about the loss of biodiversity and why human vulnerability is not something we should despair about
… schools and you can take care of the children of other couples then you don’t miss our children. So basing it on my own experience as … I have a lot. Even though I don’t have blood children, I feel I have a lot of children. …
Radical action on climate change should be the many versus the few, not the young versus the old.
… Climate, class, and revolting children Chris Saltmarsh | 30th January 2019 News Climate Change Students Children Protest students-school-in-t.jpg … leaders telling them, “ you say you love your children above all else , and yet you are …
An accessible, enjoyable book on climate change for the next generation of eco-warriors. Contributors include James Lovelock
… 9th February 2010 Reviews Climate Change Gaia Children Eco Education Green Schools Book … to dealing with Climate Change. Aimed at children (aged nine or above), this book … generation. With Nicola Davies, a renowned children's author, as the writer, and James …
Watch the winner of the 'best youth film' award in the 1 Minute to Save the World competition, sponsored by Unicef and SONY Open Planet, produced by the children and staff at Wilbury Primary School
… Unicef and SONY Open Planet, produced by the children and staff at Wilbury Primary School 1 … Unicef and SONY Open Planet, was won by the children and staff at Wilbury Primary School, … - 'Give the Colours Back to the Earth'. 'The children are thrilled to have won first …
Pollution caused by burning fossil fuels are already causing the premature deaths of 200,000 people a year - in the US alone, writes Pete Dolack. Add up the figures worldwide and it comes to many millions. And that's before we even count the catastrophic long term impacts of global warming. The US response: to loosen anti-pollution regulation and encourage increased oil, coal and gas production.
… that polluted environments cause 1.7 million children age five or younger to die per year. … for more than one-quarter of all deaths of children age five or younger globally. A … my future! The impact of the environment on children's health , notes that most of …
Science textbooks aimed at teenagers simply ignore the most effective lifestyle changes to prevent climate change: go vegetarian, cycle, take the train overseas and have fewer kids. It is time parents sat down and explained the low carbon birds and the bees, asks BRENDAN MONTAGUE
… Should teenagers give up on having children to save the planet? Brendan Montague … Change Emissions Carbon Teenagers Textbooks Children Family Sex … actions, no guide recommended having fewer children or eating a plant based diet, through …
Children are at the forefront of suffering from air pollution, explains a World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
… Thought Leaders london air pollution.jpg Children are at the forefront of suffering … every year, of which nearly 600,000 are children. Children are uniquely vulnerable to the …
The US Constitution guarantees the rights of future generations, not just current ones, writes James E. Hansen. But those rights are being betrayed, knowingly and deliberately, by governments and politicians who are standing by and allowing climate change to wreak long term havoc on the planet. Today, this legal principle is being asserted in a Federal Court in Oregon.
… Federal Court must uphold our children's right to a viable future James E. … out fossil fuel emissions will consign our children and our Posterity to a diminishing … costs now imposed on our health and our children's future are accounted for in energy …
Dan Box teaches a class about climate change and its effects on the Carteret Islands, which are sinking due to rising sea levels, and how children can help stop climate change.
… Box | 26th March 2009 Comment Dan Box Blogs Children Climate Change Carteret Islands Blog Climate Change Children Blog Climate Change Science And … are sinking due to rising sea levels, and how children can help stop climate change. The …
Indigenous communities are dedicating themselves to protecting the land, ecosystems, and traditional cultures with thousands of years of history. In Canada, Lush Spring Prize 2017 winner Indigenous Climate Action is supporting some of those communities. Lush Times writer KATIE DANCEY-DOWNS visits Indigenous Climate Action to find out more.
… are having on sacred water bodies. Indigenous children Water ceremonies, canoeing, and … to the residential schools that Indigenous children were forced to attend by the … native culture and language, and assimilate children into “Canadian” culture. The elders …
Financed by the World Bank, the Kenya Forest Service has intensified its illegal campaign of evictions, arson, beatings and arrests of the Sengwer forest people of the Embobut forest, Dean Puckett reports from the Cherangani Hills. And behind the violence lies the lure of hard cash - from the prospect of selling the forest's carbon to international financiers.
… arrested in the forest yesterday, two school children and six elderly including my mother." … me that four were released including the children after paying the KFS bribes of 500 Ksh each for the children and 2,000 Ksh for each elderly …
School buildings, food, waste - even the curriculum itself should all support a connection to, and appreciation for, the environment. Here are some resources to get you started
… from around the country and ideas to get children cooking and growing and out onto a … run by the charity Living Streets, encourages children and parents to leave the car at home … inspired over two million primary school aged children take part in activities. Ecologist …
Meanwhile children particularly at risk from air pollution - mostly caused by transport and burning coal.
… & Systems london-pollution-cut.jpg Meanwhile children particularly at risk from air … changes, health experts have warned. And children are particularly at risk from air … is already damaging the health of the world's children, and threatens them throughout their …
Questions about climate change are given easy-to-understand answers in this green handbook for children by the Guardian's eco columnist Leo Hickman
… answers in this green handbook for children by the Guardian's eco columnist Leo … simple analogies and references to well known children's stories Hickman manages to make a … can be a daunting issue. A must read for all children (and parents) Will Jellyfish Rule the …
The UK government's scientific advisory group found no link between childhood leukaemia and proximity to nuclear power plants, but German and French research has found an alarming doubling of risk
… a doubling of the incidence of leukaemia in children under 5 living near nuclear power … in the incidence of the disease among children under 5 living within 5-kilometre … data on the incidence of leukaemia in children under 5 living in the vicinity of 13 …
Advertising is a type of ‘brain pollution’ says new ‘ministry’ campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency.
… time for things like playing sports, or with children or chatting with friends and family. … are alone highly voracious in energy demand. Children Advertising’s new presence has … are ever more refined. Research shows that children are now at the mercy of so-called ' …
'We're here because our parents' generation has failed us and it's up to young people to stop climate change by whatever peaceful means we have left.'
… Youth Youth Activism Protests Generations Children Protest Children Climate Change Society … what the world would look like for their children, much of that’s changed; altruism has …
American NGO advocating for young people's future environmental rights has won a first key legal battle in its fight to force the United States to avoid dangerous climate change by cutting its greenhouse gas emissions, writes Sophie Marjanac. If upheld on appeal in higher courts, the ruling has huge implications for us all.
… v United States and is available here . The children and teenagers, aged between eight and … and federal governments by the NGO ' Our Children's Trust ' based partially on the … to dismiss the suit, claiming that the children lacked standing, raised …
Can climate art help save the world? Rebecca Heald reports on a school art installation and its ambitious 'Cool it Schools' global online initiative
… Schools Education Art Global Online Community Children COP15 Copenhagen … it.' She believes the importance of teaching children about environmental issues does not … have made a film including contributions from children worldwide, which she hopes will be …
The youth strikes provide real inspiration and a pathway toward climate and economic justice, after years of political failure.
… and again. Parents talking about how their children pick them up on recycling and palm oil, primary school age children coming to the door to talk about … for their class, parents signing up in their children’s names. The Prime Minister may see …