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How to talk to your children about climate change

Seven out of 10 children worry about climate change. Here's how parents can help kids manage eco-anxiety and teach the facts about environmental challenges.

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Mat Hutchison: Exploring climate change on first dates: Here's why I do it

I have discovered that talking about how global warming affects our lives serves as a litmus test to understand a person’s broader beliefs and behaviors. It reveals whether they perceive the world in black and white, how they view their role in their community, and their level of engagement with science and systemic inequalities.

Solutions

All talk and —yes — action

Though most people acknowledge climate change is real, and about 30% say they are “very worried” about it, just 37% say they discuss the issue occasionally or often, according to a 2022 survey from Yale University.

Impacts

Monica E. Unseld: Climate change is a daily reality. Why are we still not discussing it?

We need to talk. Now that climate change is a daily reality, why are we still not discussing it?

Vienna museum uses tilted paintings to spark climate conversations

The ‘A Few Degrees More’ exhibition at the Leopold Museum shows how disruptive a few degrees can be.

Solutions

Climate Cafe creates space for climate change conversations

Hosted at a Lethbridge brewery, Climate Cafe wants to get people talking about climate change solutions on a personal and practical level. The organizers, Environment Lethbridge, say conversations like this are an important step toward community action.

Good News

Wash, blow dry and 1.5 degrees please: Hairdressers trained to talk about climate action

A salon in Sydney is spearheading workshops for hairdressers on how to steer small talk about the weather into conversations about global heating.

ORIGINAL REPORTING

Vanishing Bayous: On a boat at ground zero for sea level rise

Department of Energy allocates $134 million for fusion funding

Aerial view of heavy machinery clearing a forest.

Study finds Indigenous territories of Amazon rainforest can protect humans from disease

New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

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