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Rebecca Hersher

'It could just sweep us away': This school is on the front lines of climate change

Climate change is affecting the everyday lives of residents in Beding, Nepal. Snow and glaciers are melting around the high altitude Himalayan town, and the melting coupled with more variable rainfall means river flooding is an ever-growing threat. (Ryan Kellman/NPR)

Presidents and prime ministers, secretaries and kings are in Egypt for the United Nations annual climate change negotiations. And when world leaders talk about climate change, they evoke one group more than any other: children.

The plight of future generations, and the need to protect today's children from a future made unlivable by global warming, is at the moral heart of international climate negotiations. The United Nations estimates about a billion children are at extremely high risk because of climate change, whether that's because of rising seas, heavy rain, drought or deadly heat waves.

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