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20 Apr 2018 |
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Hold your breath
As doctors, we have a unique role to play in the places we work – urging hospitals, clinics, academic centers, and other organizations and facilities to lead by example, become role models for energy efficiency, and choose clean renewable energy sources over the ones harming our health. We can start by choosing wind and solar […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate and Health Adaptation Project: Antioch Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience
Summary and information about CDC BRACE project in the Monadnock Region of NH focused on the development of a Climate and Health Adaptation Plan.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Doctors must respond to changes in the politics of climate change
We call on medical professionals to redouble their efforts to keep the health effects of climate change front and center in the national debate over budgeting priorities. Members of the climate science community, as well as growing numbers of state and local governments and major corporations, have begun resisting the Trump ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: Direct and indirect impacts on health
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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An introduction to ‘Eco-Medical Literacy’ and its importance in shaping expert medical professionals
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: a challenge yet to be tackled in medical schools
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why medicine is relevant to the battle against climate change
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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A silent killer: the impact of a changing climate on health
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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When Rising Seas Hit Home: Hard Choices Ahead for Hundreds of US Coastal Communities
Many important consequences of climate change are more subtle and slower moving than disasters. One such consequence is sea level rise. Unlike the catastrophic flooding that can accompany hurricanes, sea level rise impacts can take time to manifest. The final result, late this century and beyond, may be neighborhoods underwater. But ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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THE LOFOTEN DECLARATION
Climate Leadership Requires a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production: The Lofoten Declaration affirms that it is the urgent responsibility and moral obligation of wealthy fossil fuel producers to lead in putting an end to fossil fuel development and to manage the decline of existing production.