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20 Apr 2018 |
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What risks do California’s underground gas storage facilities pose to health, safety, environment, and infrastructure?
The general purpose of underground gas storage (UGS) is to meet varying demand for natural gas (predominantly methane) over daily to seasonal time scales. The California UGS system in 2017 comprises 12 UGS facilities, four in southern California, seven in northern California, and one in central California with a total capacity to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthy Planet, Healthy People | Courtney Howard | TEDxMontrealWomen
For too long we’ve put health and the environment in different boxes. The work of our generation is to bridge the two, to understand that in fact, they belong in the same box- that planetary health defines human health- ans that as we improve one, we will improve the other as well.Courtney Howard is a […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure? | Jonathan Patz | TEDxOshkosh
Public Health is being impacted by climate change via many pathways – from alterations in infectious disease transmission to water-source compromise, malnutrition, air pollution, and other factors. This talk includes recent analyses that show how mitigating global warming provides extensive health opportunities, as well as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Multisolving at the Intersection of Health and Climate: Lessons from Success Stories
By leveraging cross-sectoral collaboration, it is possible to design and implement projects that improve local health, produce financial savings, and advance long-term climate goals all at once. These “multisolving” initiatives deliver improvements in multiple sectors with the same investment of time, money, or political ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Harlem Heat Project
More people die in the U.S. each year from heat-related illnesses than from hurricanes or other natural disasters combined. The Harlem Heat Project explores the public health risks of urban heat, using a combination or crowd-sourcing, data reporting and narrative journalists. The project is produced by WNYC, AdaptNY and ISeeChange, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Louisana Disappearing: Living on the Brink of Climate Change
Every hour, Louisiana loses a football field worth of land to the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to rising sea levels and canals dredged by oil and gas companies. At this rate, most of southeastern Louisiana not protected by levees will be underwater in just 50 years.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Doctors call for state ban on drilling and fracking
The Pennsylvania Medical Society has called for a moratorium on new shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing and is urging the state to establish an independent health registry and start studying fracking’s public health impacts.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Tampa Declaration on Climate and Health
At the Climate and Health Equity Symposium sponsored by the W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute, National Medical Association, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, and Physicians for Social Responsibility – Florida, on January 27, 2018 in Wesley Chapel, Florida, members of health professional organizations, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Our Duty Is to the Public’s Well-Being: Human Health and Global Warming
The fires that ripped through our community beginning Oct. 8 changed everything. As was seen in Puerto Rico, Houston, and New Orleans, the visceral impact of climate change has hit home. The medical community must now begin to grapple with the unfolding impact of global warming on human health.