Suggested Citation: "3 Environmental Influences on Children's Health Across the Life-Span and Generations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Children's Environmental ...

Introduction -- The changing patterns of disease in children -- The chemical environment -- Children's unique vulnerability to toxic chemicals in the environment -- The links between toxic chemicals ...

Children raised in rural environments who spend a lot of time outdoors with some exposure to animals grow to have better regulated immune systems than children living in urban environments, a new ...

Climate experts have been sounding the alarm on climate change for years, but as the United Nations’ latest IPCC report indicates, the environmental protections put in place have not been enough to ...

Whenever my four-year-old daughter, Josephine, and I visit a library, she runs straight past the children’s nonfiction section—packed with information about animals, ecosystems, and environmental ...

The excerpt below is from the book "Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play" by Mitchel Resnick, published by MIT Press. There’s a common misconception ...

Kids happily glued plastic tubes and metal pieces together to make sculptures at last weekend's Earth Week Fair at Rock Island's QCCA Expo Center. The Quad Cities Earth Week Coalition hosted the ...