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Taxonomy Archive: respiratory disease
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fires in West Have Residents Gasping on the Soot Left Behind
The air in the San Joaquin Valley hangs thick with gray-brown dust, a result of the state’s largest fire, which has burned through more than 160 square miles in the nearby hills. The fire has so far spared lives and homes. But it has exposed one of the obscured effects that four years of record […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat Alert and Response Systems to Protect Health: Best Practices Guidebook
Extreme heat poses growing risks to the health of Canadians. Public health and emergency management officials in several Canadian communities are developing interventions to reduce heat-health risks and to prepare for the expected increase in the frequency, duration and severity of extreme heat events due to climate change. To help ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Impacts of Climate Change: Mold and Respiratory Illness
Climate change is happening now and faster than expected. We often think of climate change as impacting our environment, but as the planet warms, changes in temperature and precipitation are going to lead to other effects that threaten human health and safety. Weather patterns will trend towards the extremes: storms and drought, heat ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Global Health Professionals Call for Transition Away from Coal
On behalf of health professionals around the world, we call on the G7 nations to accelerate the global transition away from coalfired electricity. Eliminating air pollution from coalfired power plants provides immediate and significant air pollutionrelated health benefits and health care savings. A coal phaseout also slows ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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AME Church: Climate change disproportionately hurts blacks
African Methodist Episcopal Church members have joined the call of other religious leaders for action on climate change, citing its disproportionate effect on the health of black people. “We can move away from the dirty fuels that make us sick and shift toward safe, clean energy like wind and solar that help make every breath […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Clean Power Plan Saves Nearly $40 Billion On Health, Too
Air quality improvements associated with policies such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan go a long way toward mitigating climate change—but do you know that they also directly lower human healthcare costs? About 17,000 people die every year as a result of generating electric power. Many more suffer ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change is threat to air quality in Lancaster County, EPA scientist says
Air quality in Lancaster is one of the worst in the nation, and climate change may be making it worse. Climate change is a significant threat now and not just in the future, a federal climate-change scientist warned Wednesday, speaking at an event in Lancaster.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Makes Me Sick: Air Quality
”Climate Change Makes Me Sick” is PSR’s Spring 2016 campaign highlighting the many ways that climate change harms our health. The campaign features a series of e-postcards, each displaying a different health impact. Below, you will also find more detailed information, resources, and opportunities to take ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Decreases the Quality of the Air We Breathe
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Extreme Rainfall and Drought
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...