Lena Champlin News Today

The marsh is facing a dual threat: the impact of climate change and the lack of public awareness about the vital role this patch of nature plays.

Research out of Drexel University’s College of Engineering suggests that over the next two decades people living in the Schuylkill Watershed, which includes Philadelphia, could experience as many as 82 more days of water shortfalls due to localized weather impacts of climate change.

Sales of children’s books related to the environment rose 69 per cent between 2019 and 2021 — and they are loaded with calls to action.

Talking to children about complicated topics — like climate change — can be hard.

Lena Champlin, Jeremy Wortzel, and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry wrote a children’s book about climate change and anxiety.

Severe weather events are likely to become more commonplace as the children of today get older. Experts say that young children can be taught about climate change using local examples and simple language.