ReviewCommunications medicine2025
Extreme weather and climate-related adverse childhood experiences are a humanitarian crisis during the 21st century.
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- Pediatric Health at the Crossroads of Climate Change, Food Insecurity, and Malnutrition.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Mental health after compounding natural hazard exposure in New South Wales from 2019 to 2023: a cross-sectional study in Australian youth.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Pediatric Mental Health Needs, Unmet Care, and Disaster-Related Displacement.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Existential anxiety, psychological flexibility, and deep resilience to climate crises.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Extreme climate/weather events (ECEs) are potential sources of toxic stress for children, especially when they result in displacement, family separation, poverty, violence, or neglect. We define Environmentally driven Adverse Childhood Experiences (E-ACEs) as environmental stressors that can trigger trauma-related responses, amplify exposure to traditional ACEs, and increase the risk of long-term mental health problems. While direct neurobiological evidence on E-ACEs remains limited, research on traumatic and adverse childhood experiences (TRACEs) shows that early-life stress disrupts brain development, alters hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis regulation, and heightens vulnerability to mental illness. With the rising number of climate-displaced families and children, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), ECEs pose an urgent humanitarian and public health challenge in the 21
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