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20 Apr 2018 |
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Critical Connections: Transportation, Climate Change and Public Health
Science has firmly established that climate change is a public health issue and that human activity is causing climate change. International and domestic policy negotiations are under way to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in particular CO2, a major contributor to climate change. The transportation sector accounts for 33% of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Energy Efficiency and Health
Lowering the amount of energy we waste reduces our need to burn coal and other fossil fuels to generate electricity. Those reductions in pollution mean big gains for health, as pollutants from fossil fuel combustion contribute to four of the leading causes of death in the United States: cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Preparing Health Care Facilities for Climate Change
Resource compending for guiding healthcare facility decision making around climate change with links to important resources.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Mining Coal, Mounting Costs: The Life Cycle Consequences of Coal
Energy is essential to our daily lives, and for the past century and a half we have depended on fossil fuels to produce it. But, from extraction to combustion, coal, oil and natural gas have multiple health, environmental and economic impacts that are proving costly for society. We estimate that the life cycle impacts of […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is climate change driving the spread of Zika virus?
The Zika virus, transmitted by the same mosquito as dengue fever, has spread with alarming speed throughout South and Central America – and scientists in Brazil suspect that global warming is exacerbating the problem.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Ocean Acidification – Effects on Humans
Ocean acidification will have drastic effects on shelled organisms and on coral reefs, but what about its effects on humans? Many people mistakenly believe that the oceans may be turning to acid, and that it will no longer be safe for humans enter the water. This is not true, even in the most extreme scenarios […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is Your State Prepared For The Health Impacts Of Climate Change?
This winter, a strange sickness has been spreading through the Caribbean. In St. Martin alone, where the disease was first detected in December, there have been over 500 confirmed cases and another 3,200 people are believed to have contracted the disease elsewhere in the Caribbean. The disease, Chikungunya fever, was once only seen ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Weather: Hot enough for you? This is just the beginning
Millions of people around the world are experiencing a scorching summer, as records are broken and thermostats climb this week in parts of Europe. Temperatures in Paris and Brussels exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit at a time of year when 70-degree weather is the norm, according to Accuweather.com.In Bandar-e Mahshahr, Iran, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Protecting Communities from Climate Change (Hint: It’s not Just About Seawalls)
Climate change is here, and it is already affecting our health and wellbeing. That’s the conclusion of the National Climate and Health Assessment, released last week by the prestigious U.S. Global Change Research Program. Fortunately, it is possible to make even our most vulnerable communities more climate-resilient. In fact, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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More Needs to be Done to Prioritize Climate Change
Climate change is a critical public health issue — one that hospitals need to do more to address. Every year, U.S. hospitals are emitting 8 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gases, generating more than 5.9 million tons of waste annually, and spending more than $6.5 billion on energy costs. While many hospitals are beginning to ...