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20 Apr 2018 |
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The Zika virus foreshadows our dystopian climate future
Spread by mosquitoes whose range inexorably expands as the climate warms, Zika causes mild flu-like symptoms. But pregnant women bitten by the wrong mosquito are liable to give birth to babies with shrunken heads. Brazil last year recorded 4,000 cases of this “microcephaly”. As of today, authorities in Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hot climate makes you more aggressive and violent
The combination of a hot climate and less variation in seasonal temperatures leads to a faster life strategy, less focus on the future and less self-control — all of which contribute to more aggression and violence, according to a new model that explains the link between climate and crime rates. Many studies have shown that […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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U.S. Becomes More Vulnerable to Tropical Diseases Like Zika
Tropical diseases — some of them never before seen in the United States — are marching northward as climate change lets mosquitoes and ticks expand their ranges. But that does not mean that epidemics will break out, scientists say. Whether a few cases explode into a full-fledged outbreak depends on a set of factors far […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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An Overview of Occupational Risks From Climate Change
Changes in atmosphere and temperature are affecting multiple environmental indicators from extreme heat events to global air quality. Workers will be uniquely affected by climate change, and the occupational impacts of major shifts in atmospheric and weather conditions need greater attention. Climate change-related exposures most ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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New climate and socio-economic scenarios for assessing global human health challenges due to heat risk
Motivated by growing heat-related morbidity and mortality in a warming climate, this paper assesses global heat health risk in order to understand the challenges to sustainability in the 21st century, using four Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) of the HadGEM2-ES climate model and five Shared Socio-Economic Pathways ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The epidemiology of occupational heat exposure in the United States: a review of the literature and assessment of research needs in a changing climate
In recent years, the United States has experienced record-breaking summer heat. Climate change models forecast increasing US temperatures and more frequent heat wave events in the coming years. Exposure to environmental heat is a significant, but overlooked, workplace hazard that has not been well-characterized or studied. The ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Characterizing occupational heat-related mortality in the United States, 2000-2010: An analysis using the census of fatal occupational injuries database: Occupational Heat-Related Mortality in the US
Background: Occupational heat-related mortality is not well studied and risk factors remain largely unknown. This paper describes the epidemiological characteristics of heat-related deaths among workers in the US 2000-2010. Methods: Fatality data were obtained at the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the confidential on-site Census of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Neighborhood Effects on Heat Deaths: Social and Environmental Predictors of Vulnerability in Maricopa County, Arizona
Background: Most heat-related deaths occur in cities, and future trends in global climate change and urbanization may amplify this trend. Understanding how neighborhoods affect heat mortality fills an important gap between studies of individual susceptibility to heat and broadly comparative studies of temperature–mortality ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Implications of climate change for skin cancer prevention in Australia
It is estimated that nearly 450,000 Australians get skin cancer every year. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight has been identified as the cause of more than 95% of skin cancers in Australia. Accordingly, the focus of skin cancer prevention programs is reducing exposure to UV radiation. In Victoria, improvements in sun ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Towards More Comprehensive Projections of Urban Heat-Related Mortality: Estimates for New York City under Multiple Population, Adaptation, and Climate Scenario
Background: High temperatures have substantial impacts on mortality and, with growing concerns about climate change, numerous studies have developed projections of future heat-related deaths around the world. Projections of temperature-related mortality are often limited by insufficient information necessary to formulate hypotheses ...