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Almost Half of America’s Kids Are Breathing Toxic Air

The American Lung Association’s annual report finds that climate change is making dirty air worse, especially for communities of color. The Trump administration keeps targeting rules meant to help.

By Keerti Gopal

Children play in a park as the skyline of New York City is shrouded by a hazy sky on July 18, 2023. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images
Julissa Hernandez used to run track and field as a student at Niagara Falls High School before her asthma forced her to quit. She believes the poor air quality in in the New York town contributed to her complications. Credit: Jennifer Wybieracki

How Two Teens in Niagara Falls Are Confronting Pollution and a Mental Health Crisis

By Jennifer Wybieracki

Amber DeLoney-Stewart’s 2-year-old daughter Valencia stands in front of their former home in East Trenton, N.J. Credit: Anna Mattson/Inside Climate News

One Family’s Battle With Trenton’s Lead Legacy

By Anna Mattson

Riders on a bike bus in Santa Fe, N.M. Credit: Ryan Harris

More Children Are Powering Their Own Wheels to School as Part of ‘Bike Buses’

By Tina Deines

Adriana Valdez pulls back a drape to inspect the layer of ash coating her son’s toys at her home in Altadena on April 1.

For Many Disabled Fire Victims in Los Angeles, a Continuing Trauma

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

Students gather outside Wells Community Academy High School at the end of the school day on March 14, 2022, in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Illinois Wants Climate Education in Schools. Now Teachers Need to Figure Out How to Make It Happen.

By Amber X. Chen

Vic Barrett (left) and Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh Martinez are two of the former plaintiffs in the climate case Juliana v. United States who filed a new petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Credit: Our Children’s Trust

Climate Activists Thwarted in U.S. Courts Are Headed to an International Tribunal for Review

By Dana Drugmand

A view of the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2016, where natural gas had been leaking from the Aliso Canyon storage facility since Oct. 23, 2015. Credit: Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images

Toxic Plumes from Aliso Canyon Gas Blowout Harmed Babies, Study Shows

By Liza Gross

Children speak alongside lawmakers at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Source: Screengrab from Sen. Ed Markey livestream

Children Plead With U.S. Lawmakers to Protect EPA’s Endangerment Finding

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

Mira Shah, who recently started a student-run climate economics journal, at her father’s office in Dublin, Calif. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Teen Starts an Online Journal on the Power of Economics to Confront Climate Change

By Liza Gross

A view of the Shenango coke plant in Pittsburgh in December 2012. Credit: Allegheny County Clean Air Now

Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered

By Kiley Bense

U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is seen in the background of a neighborhood in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Air Pollution Is ‘Keeping Kids Out of School’ in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, Study Shows

By Kiley Bense

Neuroscience professor Gina Turrigiano talks with researchers at her Brandeis University lab, where researchers are studying the origins of autism and other neurological disorders, on Feb. 12 in Waltham, Mass. Credit: Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Unraveling the Link Between Plastics and Autism

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics/Getty Images via Grist

Trump’s Latest USDA Cuts Undermine His Plan to ‘Make America Healthy Again’

By Ayurella Horn-Muller, Grist

The young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States demonstrate outside the White House in Washington, D.C. Credit: Robin Loznak/Our Children’s Trust

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Youth-Led Climate Case. The Youth Say They Will Fight On

By Amy Green

Three-year-old Layla glides down a slide at Kiwanis Park on a hot day in August in Tempe, Arizona. Credit: Kevin Hurley/Inside Climate News

Finding a Fix for Playgrounds That Are Too Hot to Touch

By Wyatt Myskow

Layla Maria, de 3 años, se desliza por un tobogán en el parque Kiwanis un caluroso día de agosto en Tempe, Arizona. Crédito: Kevin Hurley/Inside Climate News

En busca de soluciones para los parques infantiles donde el calor quema

By Wyatt Myskow

Psychiatrist Lise van Susteren is a co-founder of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance and the Climate Psychology Alliance-North America. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Almost 20 Years Ago, a Mid-Career Psychiatrist Started Thinking About Climate Anxiety and Mental Health

By Nina Dietz

The need for air conditioning in schools is overwhelming. One report shows that 36,000 schools nationwide don’t have adequate HVAC systems. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Extreme Heat Is Making Schools Hotter—and Learning Harder

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

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