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20 Apr 2018 |
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EPA ties massive flood in historic Md. town to climate change
The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that it is unmistakably clear that climate change is occurring, adding new tell-tale signs of global warming in its fourth annual report.”The Earth’s climate is changing,” the EPA report stated in an executive summary. “Temperatures are rising, snow and rainfall ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Brace yourself for climate change effects on human health
The world should brace for potentially devastating impacts on human health due to climate change, top policy makers and officials from around the globe meeting in Paris said Thursday. Some of these consequences may be avoided if humanity radically curbs its use of fossil fuels in coming decades, but many are already being felt, they ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Study: Climate change can affect the spread of infectious diseases
A new study from Texas State University aimed to answer that question by finding the connection between climate change and viruses like Zika and West Nile. Dr. Yongmei Lu, a professor in the Department of Geography at Texas State, concluded the study just before Zika became a well-known world headline. However, it focuses on other ...
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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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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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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Climate Change as a Public Health Issue
Last month, anthrax made an appearance in northern Russia when a 75-year-old caribou carcass that was infected with the bacteria thawed and came into contact with locals. We talk to a guest who says that climate change could be to blame for the spread of illness and might be at the root…
20 Apr 2018 |
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Surveyed doctors report climate change is hamring health
Springtime blooms mark the arrival of pollen season in Virginia, and for allergy sufferers the misery seems to be getting worse every year. In fact, it actually is. Doctors across the U.S. are confirming what climate scientists, who have the tools to study atmospheric and oceanic changes, have concluded — climate change is ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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How rising carbon is changing seasonal allergies
Nasal sprays, eye drops, pills, melts and inhalers fill the pharmacy shelves. Kids are kept inside with windows shut, parents struggle through work with bright red, itchy eyes, soccer practices are skipped and allergy shots begun. This is the face of allergies, circa 2015. If you think allergies are worse than they used to be, […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Adopting clean-fuels standard is a public health imperative
EACH and every day, we take an average of 21,000 breaths. For some of us, those breaths come and go without a thought. For those with asthma or other lung diseases, each breath can be a struggle.In our state, more than a half million adults and 105,000 youths have asthma. Dirty air can trigger severe […]