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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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America is too damn hot: U.S. faces dramatic rise in extreme heat and humidity
Across the United States, we’ve hit the dog days of summer. Most regions are now seeing their hottest temperatures of the year, and the combination of heat and high humidity sends most people running for a cold drink, some shade or an air conditioner. Heat is the No.1 weather-related killer, and as carbon pollution continues, […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Workshop on the Development of Climate Information Systems for Heat Health Early Warning: Assessing Knowledge, Needs, and the Path Forward
Recent Assessments agree that extreme heat events will become more frequent and intense as our climate changes. To address this issue and build on the emerging capacity to predict heat on climate time scales, NOAA (OAR, NWS, NESDIS), the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Met Service), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Sizzling Midwest Feels a Preview of a Hotter Future Climate
Extreme heat waves like the current string of scorching days in the Midwest have become more frequent worldwide in the last 60 years, and climate scientists expect that human-caused global warming will exacerbate the dangerous trend in coming decades. It comes with potentially life-threatening consequences for millions of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika virus, Ebola spread predicted using climate change trends, study identifies 50 U.S. cities at risk
Zika virus and Ebola virus spread can be predicted using climate change trends, according to research. The findings come from the University College London where researchers found that predicting zoonotic diseases may be possible through analyzing fluctuating global demographic and environmental patterns.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Photo feature: climate change worsens arsenic poisoning
In many parts of eastern India, Bangladesh and southern Pakistan, overuse of groundwater first brought the level of arsenic above the safe limit of 0.05 milligrams per litre of drinking water, as prescribed by the World Health Organisation. Now, as climate change reduces the rate at which rainwater seeps underground, the arsenic ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika virus is a symptom of climate change
The Zika epidemic is one of the ill effects of climate change. Warming climate not being its only cause, current infections in the United States are reported to be primarily travel related. Yet biology favors both higher activity level and expansion into new territory, under higher temperatures, of the mosquitoes, fleas, ticks and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health
By almost any measure, human health is better now than at any time in history. Life expectancy has soared from 47 years in 1950–1955, to 69 years in 2005–2010, and death rates in children younger than 5 years of age have decreased substantially, from 214 per thousand live births in 1950–1955, to 59 in 2005–2010. […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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The health impacts of climate change
Can we at last accept that the climate is changing, that we are making it happen, and that there are profound implications for us? Chris Rapley answers the key questionsNo science is ever completely settled. However, among the tens of thousands of scientists working in the field of climate science worldwide there is almost complete ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis; Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability; Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change; Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report.Includes Summary for Policymakers and a presentation of key findings.