SM BEACH — Forty screaming fourth graders, imitating everything from a great white shark to an octopus, raced across the sand at Muscle Beach next to the Santa Monica Pier. Flinging themselves at the ...

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 ...

“Nobody wants children to get sick.” — Tom Neltner, founder and president of Improving Kids’ Environment “I’ve only found a few people opposed to children’s health,” says Tom Neltner, founder and ...

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 ...

Improving Kids’ Environment, a 20-year-old not-for-profit that works to reduce toxic risks for children, has merged with the Hoosier Environmental Council, the groups announced Thursday. IKE will now ...

“I wish adults knew that I really care about the environment and want to help, but I sometimes feel like my ideas don’t matter because I’m just a kid.” This is what a nine-year-old respondent told us ...

My husband and I have two children (2 years and 6 months). We recently moved back to my husband’s hometown to pursue a career opportunity for me. My husband has been home with the kids but was just ...

A new regional center will develop programs to address asthma, lead and chemical exposure, and air pollution in Philadelphia and Chester. Signs for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and ...

A few days ago, Shannon Osaka, the "Climate zeitgeist reporter" at the Washington Post wrote a piece exploring the idea that having children is unethical as kids are bad for the climate. She doesn’t ...