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20 Apr 2018 |
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An eye-opening flight over California’s dying forests
Using technology that has diagnosed problems in the Amazon rain forest and the jungles of Borneo, researchers are learning that California’s unprecedented tree die-off is moving well beyond its origins in the southern Sierra Nevada and along parts of the southern coast. It’s creeping farther north, and to higher elevations, not ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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JAMA Forum: Communicating the Health Effects of Climate Change
As 2015 draws to a close, on track to be the hottest year ever recorded, global attention to climate change has soared. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), composed of more than 2000 of the world’s leading climate change scientists, has stated with confidence that the major driver of rising ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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AMA Position Statement on Climate Change and Human Health
Human health is ultimately dependent on the health of the planet and its ecosystem. The AMA recognises the latest findings regarding the science of climate change, the role of humans, past observations and future projections. The consequences of climate change have serious direct and indirect, observed and projected health impacts ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change is thawing deadly diseases. Maybe now we’ll address it?
Record-high temperatures melted Arctic permafrost and released deadly anthrax spores from a thawing carcass of a caribou that had been infected 75 years ago and had stayed frozen in limbo until now. This all suggests that it may not be easy to predict which populations will be most vulnerable to the health impacts of climate […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Benefits of a Low-Carbon Future
In 2007, the City of Toronto adopted the target of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across Toronto by 80% by the year 2050, relative to 1990 levels. The purpose of the report is to assist Toronto Public Health to better understand the health benefits, and any negative health impacts (harms), of GHG-reduction actions that could ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat-Associated Deaths in Maricopa County, AZ: Final Report for 2015
Mortality from environmental heat is a significant public health problem in Maricopa County, especially because it is largely preventable. Maricopa County has conducted heat surveillance since 2006. Each year, the enhanced heat surveillance season usually begins in May and ends in October. The main goals of heat surveillance are to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika: Are outbreaks in U.S. cities avoidable?
When it comes to addressing emerging infectious disease, we have a short attention span. Forces are mobilized when we’ve crossed a tipping point, and demobilized when the immediate threat has passed. In the case of Zika, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency based on a strong association between ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Rising Waters, Rising Threat: How Climate Change Endangers America’s Neglected Wastewater Infrastructure
This report recommends taking the following steps to keep American waters clean and protect public health from disruptions and overflows in wastewater treatment systems: Integrate climate risk into all new wastewater infrastructure; Finance resilience improvements through state infrastructure banks; Prioritize resilience in state ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Reducing Global Health Risks Through MItigation of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: Scoping report for policymakers
This report was developed as a policy-relevant summary of potential benefits to health from reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants. The report brings together available knowledge from the health and climate domain into one scoping review. The document provides information on direct and indirect health effects of SLCPs ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat Advisory: Protecting Health on a Warming Planet
Climate change affects not just the planet but the people who live on it. In this book, physician Alan Lockwood describes how global warming will be bad for our health. Drawing on peer-reviewed scientific and medical research, Lockwood meticulously details the symptoms of climate change and their medical side effects.