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20 Apr 2018 |
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Briefing: after the Paris climate talks— what next for migration and displacement linked to climate change?
Climate change has the power to re-shape patterns of migration and displacement across the world. For this reason migration and displacement have been part of the international climate change negotiations for a number of years.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The climate connection: Nurses examine effects of climate change on public health
When Katie Huffling, MS, RN, CNM, worked as nurse midwife in the Washington, D.C., area, she noticed on days with elevated pollution levels that mothers-to-be with previously controlled asthma came into her office wheezing and struggling for breath, putting themselves and the fetuses they were carrying at risk. Huffling adjusted ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate action is healthcare outside the clinic
For years human health resided in a different ‘box’ than climate health. At first, healthcare professionals themselves didn’t recognize climate change would have an effect on their health or on their work. Then in 2009 the Lancet stunned us all with the pronouncement that “Climate change is the greatest global health threat ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and human survival
The IPCC has already concluded that it is “virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system” and that it is “extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010” is anthropogenic. Its new report outlines the future threats of further ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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People’s Test on Climate 2015
Nothing less than a systemic transformation of our societies, our economies, and our world will suffice to solve the climate crisis and close the ever-increasing inequality gap. After over 20 years of stunted and ineffective action to reduce climate pollution by governments – particularly in wealthy countries that have failed to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Nurses, climate change and health
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) concurs with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that climate change has emerged as a new threat to public health. ICN acknowledges climate change as an important issue for the nursing profession, particularly in light of the impact on people’s health and nursing’s shared ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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RACP Climate Change and Health Position Statement
The medical profession has a duty of care to protect and promote the health of our patients and the community. Climate change presents a current and ongoing threat to human health globally. The medical profession has a responsibility to advocate for strong action to mitigate climate change and its consequences and to understand and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Ditch Coal: The Global Mining Impacts of the UKs Addiction to Coal
Coal is at a crossroads in the UK. On the one hand, the UK’s dirtiest power stations burn vast quantities of coal, with little or no regard for the human and environmental impacts that this has. On the other, the UK Government has announced an intention to “consult” over proposals to close remaining coal fired […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Don’t Eat Your Children’s Food
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee issued what I consider to be a truly stellar, 572-page report. We are now in a period of cogitation, consideration and commentary during which everyone with skin in the game gets to tell the U.S. Department of Agriculture why they should embrace or renounce specific elements in the report.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Drought, climate change increase intensity of California wildfires
Because of the continuing California drought, authorities predicted another dangerous year, and the Sherpa Fire is one of 1,800 wildfires state and forest service firefighters have battled since January. In a June 1 Letter to the Editor, “SLO County tackles the health effects of climate change,” rising temperatures, frequent ...