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Groepen van in het wild levende dieren zijn over een periode van 52 jaar gemiddeld 73 procent kleiner geworden. Dat blijkt uit een wereldwijd, tweejaarlijks rapport van het Wereldnatuurfonds WWF. Toch is er ook goed nieuws: als de mens de natuur beter beschermt, kunnen soorten weer opveren. Dat is het geval voor bijvoorbeeld de blauwvintonijn, de tijger, de olifant in zuidelijk Afrika en de groene zeeschildpad.

Imagine being told that your children cannot play outside because the grass and soil in your local area is so polluted that it endangers their health. You are not allowed to eat the eggs from the chickens in your garden because eating them could diminish your immune system and/or lead to certain types of cancer. No, this is not the plot of a dystopian novel these are very real consequences for people living in places that are severely polluted by PFAS. Also known as forever chemicals.

Children’s developing lungs make them vulnerable to air pollution.

“On se croyait plus forts que les lois de la thermodynamique” est #lapireexcuse de Mireille Roddier quant à la planète qu’on laissera à nos enfants. ⚡️ La thermodynamique hors-équilibre nous enseigne qu’un système ouvert, traversé par un flux constant d’énergie, peut s’auto-organiser de manière à diminuer son entropie interne (son état de désordre) et à l’exporter vers son environnement. Cette organisation prend la forme de structures ordonnées dites “dissipatives,” telles que des cellules vivantes, les écosystèmes, la Terre, ou un cyclone (Prigogine). Comme tout système complexe, une structure dissipative contient des sous-structures pour lesquelles elle sert d’environnement—un être vivant sert d’environnement à des écosystèmes de bactéries.

Pourquoi le comportement de Donald Trump n'est pas seulement alarmant – il est clinique…

A common pesticide can increase children’s risk of poor brain development and motor skills Kids exposed to chlorpyrifos while in the womb have altered neuron development and lower blood flow to their brains This can cause problems with motor skills among children

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children’s future

Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health

A study led by the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health at the University of California, Irvine has revealed possible links between exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water and an increased risk of certain childhood cancers.

Children born in 2020 will face “unprecedented exposure” to extreme weather events even if warming is limited to 1.5C.

Young people will be exposed to a number of heatwaves that no one would have experienced in pre-industrial times. Young people will be exposed to a number of heatwaves that no one would have experienced in pre-industrial times.

Zeeschildpadden keren elk jaar vroeger terug naar hun nestplaatsen om de stijgende temperatuur te compenseren.

The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is one of the global tipping points that will spell doom for our children's futures.

Volgens kinderrechtenorganisatie Save the Children is het aantal kinderen dat in drie weken tijd in Gaza is gedood, hoger dan het jaarlijkse aantal kinderen in alle conflictgebieden samen sinds 2019.

Zes Portugese jongeren tussen 11 en 24 jaar worden morgen (woensdag) gehoord door het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens. Ze klagen Europese regeringen aan voor de enorme bosbranden in Portugal in 2017. Ngo’s spreken van een historisch proces.

Kinderen zijn de grootste dupe van de klimaatcrisis, maar tellen eigenlijk nauwelijks mee in de inspanningen tegen de gevolgen van de klimaatverandering. Dat zeggen Unicef, Save The Children en Plan International in een gezamenlijk rapport.

Gestational exposure to ambient fine particles (PM2.5) increases the risk of stillbirth, but the related disease burden is unknown, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We combine state-of-the-art estimates on stillbirths, and multiple exposure–response functions obtained from previous meta-analyses or derived by a self-matched case-control study in 54 LMICs. 13,870 stillbirths and 32,449 livebirths are extracted from 113 geocoded surveys from the Demographic and Health Surveys. Each stillbirth is compared to livebirth(s) of the same mother using a conditional logit regression. We find that 10-µg/m3 increase of PM2.5 is associated with an 11.0% (95% confidence interval [CI] 6.4, 15.7) increase in the risk of stillbirth, and the association is significantly enhanced by maternal age. Based on age-specific nonlinear PM2.5–stillbirth curves, we evaluate the PM2.5-related stillbirths in 137 countries. In 2015, of 2.09 (95% CI: 1.98, 2.20) million stillbirths, 0.83 (0.54, 1.08) million or 39.7%

Academici en zelfverklaarde nerds sloegen de handen in elkaar voor een dier- én budgetvriendelijke sensor die een nieuw licht werpt op het broedgedrag van de met uitsterven bedreigde zeeschildpad.

Newborn babies are particularly vulnerable to hot conditions. They have a limited ability to control their body temperature.