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Exploring the relationship between physical activity, flood experience, eco-anxiety, and youth well-being in a changing climate. Scientific Reports.
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Life Stage and Reproductive Health Mental Health
Exploring eco-anxiety in Italian adolescents: Psychometric evaluation of the Climate Change Anxiety Scale and theoretical insights into the association with pro-environmental attitudes. Frontiers in Psychology.
Climate change affects young people’s health more than adults’, yet teens often have few chances to take action. The findings suggest that for adolescents, feelings of worry and constant thinking about climate change can actually strengthen their environmental concern, underscoring the need to give them more opportunities to act.
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Direct Injuries Air Pollution
The world’s children suffer brunt of wildfire smoke health impacts. Mongabay.
Around 270,000 children under 5 die annually from wildfire smoke, mostly in low-income countries. Studies link exposure to serious physical and mental health effects, with recent research in Mozambique showing spikes in hospital visits after fires.
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Governance and Policy Youth Voices
Inclusion of children and youth in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports (AR1-AR6). Nature Communications.
This study examines how children and youth are represented in IPCC Assessment Reports. It found more mentions in recent reports, but the roles of children and youth are still too narrowly described.
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Nutritional Diseases Food Systems
Child diet diversity and irrigation expansion in the global south. Nature Sustainability.
Researchers explore how irrigation expansion affects child diet diversity—a key indicator of micronutrient intake and development—in the Global South. While irrigation generally improves dietary outcomes in rural areas, water stress can limit these benefits and influence nutrition impacts.
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: Report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health. The Lancet.
