Twenty-three years ago, “Sesame Street” aired a remarkable series of episodes during which the iconic puppets and their human friends must recover from a hurricane. One focus is Big Bird’s struggle to ...

Late last month, Hurricane Melissa pummeled Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean. It was one of the strongest Category 5 storms on record, and yet it’s just one among many severe and devastating ...

Tom's parents were packing to evacuate from bushfires in regional Victoria five years ago when they realized they couldn't find Tom, who was only two and a half. After a frantic search, they found him ...

Madigan Traversi’s world changed in the fall of 2017, but the forces responsible for her transformation had been brewing for a long time. Late at night on Oct. 8, her family received a robocall about ...

"I'm Sprout," the puppet says in the inaugural episode of the series. "I'm a sunflower. I'm just too little to bloom yet." Together, the pair share information about human-caused climate change — the ...

Reasons to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change Climate change is not just an environmental issue; it’s a profound ...

Climate change isn’t some abstract or faraway issue. It’s happening now, and it has serious short- and long-term ramifications for our health, our children’s health, and the planet at large. The ...

Can the common barn swallow help promote awareness of climate change while encouraging greater diversity in STEM? A group of CU Boulder faculty believes so—and they recently won a five-year grant ...

Something really cool is coming. Planet Media, an initiative of the Aspen Institute’s This Is Planet Ed, has joined forces with Encantos, an acclaimed media company known for purposeful storytelling, ...

Kathrin Zangerl is a pediatrician at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health in Germany, where she is a specialist on how climate change affects children at different stages in their lives. For ...

Suzie Hicks the Climate Chick and co-host Sprout are on a mission to inspire young children to learn about and take action on climate change. (Rose Trimboli) "I'm Sprout," the puppet says in the ...